William Maxwell: 27 books

Mrs. Thompson William Babington Maxwell, british novelist (1866-1938) This ebook presents «Mrs. Thompson», from William Babington Maxwell. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- MOTTO -03- MRS. THOMPSON  

The FBI’s secret dossier on the legendary and controversial writer, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Decades before Black Lives Matter returned James Baldwin to prominence, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI considered the Harlem-born author the most powerful broker between black art...

Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover's white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI's hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released...

The revolution ended with a shudder and a gasp, and the antebellum South was dispensed to the dustbins of history. An upended social system intensified this violent, lawless time. Texas government was supervised by the Union Army and its economy shaped by carpetbaggers. Outlaw gangs, freed slaves,...

The Victories of Wellington and the British Armies written by Scots-Irish novelist William Hamilton Maxwell. This book is one of many works by him. It has already Published in 1891. Now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we...

A magical version of modern Los Angeles, an ex-druid down on his luck. Some people spend New Years Eve alone, some with family, some in celebration with a bunch of raucous strangers. Peregrine Dunn (the protagonist of the upcoming novel, SILENCE IN THE CHAPEL, and the narrator of this story) spends...

A startling short tale about a group of researchers and what happens when they prevent a disturbed man from completing a ritual off a lonely shoreline in England. Included with this short is an excerpt from the novel SHADOWPATH.

The words written on these pages are meant to be thought provoking as well as inspiring in some way hopefully in a positive manner. These are times of my young life in Detroit, military life and life in general. There may be some that have had a similar experience. some experiences are of the physical...

During the continuation of these fearful storms, this wild coast had not escaped its customary visitations. An island smack had foundered with all its crew; and farther to the northward, a transport, homeward-bound from Holland with sick and wounded soldiers, having been dismasted in the gale, was driven...

An enthusiastic admirer of rural sports from boyhood, the Compiler sought with avidity after any book connected with his favourite recreations, from which either amusement or information might be obtained. The older authors, with the exception of a few pages of quaint and curious anecdote, were generally...

Prescribing Health: Transcendental Meditation in Contemporary Medical Care includes important contributions from leading experts on Transcendental Meditation and health, and provides the reader with the most important, cutting edge health research on the effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on...

Summarises latest research on IWM principles and methods  Assesses current challenges facing herbicide use  Detailed review of the range of cultural, physical and biological methods of control available for IWM.

Dr. Elisabeth Frost, conventional psychologist, part-time author, finds herself drawn into an investigation with no apparent motive, save to pull her into it. To solve this brutal murder, she’s going to have to look past her preconceptions and into the world of the shadows, where a select few wield...