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Wharton’s 1901-04 travels yielded nine ruminations about Italy, its culture, and the art of being a perceptive visitor. Includes “An Alpine Posting-Inn,” “A Midsummer Week's Dream,” “The Sanctuaries of the Pennine Alps,” “What the Hermits Saw,” “A Tuscan Shrine,” “Sub Umbra Liliorum,” “March in Italy,” and “Picturesque Milan.”

It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast—Robert's, I fancy—as to the quality of the fireworks laid in for the Guy Fawkes celebration

There are some things I must tell before I begin to tell about the treasure–seeking, because I have read books myself, and I know how beastly it is when a story begins, "'Alas!" said Hildegarde with a deep sigh, "we must look our last on this ancestral home"'—and then some one else says something—and...

Unless he finds a wealthy wife—and soon—Lord Ian Sutcombe will lose everything. Left deeply in debt by his foolish father and greedy stepmother, his only hope is to marry for money. Stung by a suitor’s cruel betrayal, Hannah Leeds, daughter of a prosperous merchant, wasn’t sure she’d...

Example in this ebook   POPULAR IDEAS OF CORNWALL To the mind of the ordinary Briton there is a curious attraction in "getting as far as you can"—a streak in mentality which has accounted in no small degree for the world-wide Empire. In England you cannot in one direction...

Some there are who are drawn by a similar magnet to the Lizard, the most southerly point of our land, but the attraction is not so potent. From time immemorial John o' Groat's to Land's End has formed the measure of Britain. It would be a feat impossible. But what is a catalogue of words? It conveys...

Simon Atwood, Lord Granger, once gave all for his country—and paid the price. Now, his handsome face haunted by a secret sorrow, Simon has undertaken a mission far closer to home, but no less dangerous. And though he hesitates to risk her safety, he must seek the help of Jane Chatham, an enchanting...

Este hombre de letras se recupera en la presente antología para los lectores del siglo XXI: Marginada por buena parte del siglo XX, la cultura mexicana decimonónica tuvo defensores eruditos y vehementes como el escritor, bibliófilo y explorador de las mentalidades Enrique Fernández Ledesma, autor...

Snow is piling up in Westbury, Massachusetts, and Cam Flaherty’s organic farm has managed to survive the harsh New England winter. Unfortunately murder seems to be the crop in season… Cam is finding the New Year just as hectic as the old one. Her sometimes rocky relationship with Chef Jake...

When Hannah Breed confides to midwife Rose Carroll that she's pregnant out of wedlock, Rose promises to help her through the pregnancy and figure out a way to break the news to her family. But that night, amid the noise and revelry of the Independence Day fireworks, Hannah is found shot dead. After...

"An intriguing look at life in 19th-century New England, a heroine whose goodness guides all her decisions, and a mystery that surprises."—Kirkus Reviews on Called to Justice A suffragist is murdered in Rose Carroll's Massachusetts town Excitement runs high during presidential...

Quaker midwife Rose Carroll seeks the true cause of a young mother's death in turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. The winter of 1889 is harsh in Amesbury, Massachusetts, but it doesn't stop Quaker midwife Rose Carroll from making the rounds to her pregnant and postpartum mothers. When Charity...

It’s been a hot, dry spring in Westbury, Massachusetts. As organic farmer Cam Flaherty waits for much-needed rain, storm clouds of mystery begin to gather . . .   May has been anything but merry for Cam so far. Her parents have arrived unexpectedly and her crops are in danger. But all of that’s...