Winston Churchill: 219 books

I may as well begin this story with Mr. Hilary Vane, more frequently addressed as the Honourable Hilary Vane, although it was the gentleman's proud boast that he had never held an office in his life. He belonged to the Vanes of Camden Street, — a beautiful village in the hills near Ripton, — and...

A tale of politics, money, and corruption, young Mr. Vane breaks with his father, chief counsel for the railroad that controls the politics of New Hampshire. Vane junior wins a damage suit against the railroad and hopes to run for governor, but his father blocks his nomination as his last act of duty to the railroad.

At certain moments during the days that followed the degree of tension her relationship with Ditmar had achieved tested the limits of Janet's ingenuity and powers of resistance. Yet the sense of mastery at being able to hold such a man in leash was by no means unpleasurable to a young woman of her vitality...

The burden of the valley of vision: woe to the Honourable Adam B. Hunt! Where is he all this time? On the porch of his home in Edmundton, smoking cigars, little heeding the rising of the waters; receiving visits from the Honourables Brush Bascom, Nat Billings, and Jacob Botcher, and signing cheques to...

On the exotic island of Madeira, an American Navy sailor meets a young British woman. As they decide to dispense with formalities, their sly and secretive arrangements (with a little help from a crewman friend) supply the humor in this 1896 story—the first by a master of American naturalism.

CONTENTS DEDICATION INTRODUCTORY NOTE MAPS AND PLANS CHAPTER I. STEAMING SOUTH R.M.S. 'Dunottar Castle,' October 26 and October 29, 1899 CHAPTER II. THE STATE OF THE GAME Capetown; November 1, 1899 CHAPTER III. ALONG THE SOUTHERN FRONTIER East London: November 5,...