George Madden Martin: 8 books

This volume, number 4 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, focuses on the culture of the typical people who would have attended the Elizabethan theatre in which Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed. “A Warwickshire Lad,” by George Madden Martin “The People...

There must be something wrong, Lavinia, with our way of managing, said Auntie. "If you think you can do it better than I, Ann Eliza—" came from Mamma, with dignity. Selina, scant seventeen in years and sweet and loving and anxious, felt that she could not bear it. To sit in consultation...

Emmy Lou, laboriously copying digits, looked up. The boy sitting in line in the next row of desks was making signs to her. She had noticed the little boy before. He was a square little boy, with a sprinkling of freckles over the bridge of the nose and a cheerful breadth of nostril. His teeth were...

Harriet Blair was seventeen when she went with her father and mother and her brother Austen to New Orleans, to the marriage of an older brother, Alexander, the father’s business representative at that place. It was characteristic of the Blairs that they declined the hospitality of the bride’s...

Little Will Shakespeare was going homeward through the dusk from Gammer Gurton's fireside. He had no timorous fears, not he. He would walk proudly and deliberately as becomes a man. Men are not afraid. Yet Gammer had told of strange happenings at her home. A magpie had flown screaming over the roof,...

Ein Vorbericht, der sehr wenig vor die Ausführung verspricht. Das Schattenreich ist das Paradies der Phantasten. Hier finden sie ein unbegrenztes Land, wo sie sich nach Belieben anbauen können. Hypochondrische Dünste, Ammenmärchen und Klosterwunder lassen es ihnen an Bauzeug nicht ermangeln. Die...