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From the author of the bestselling Jalna series, a story of one small thing that creates a lot of beauty. Bill and Coo were two pigeons who built their nest in the shelter of the gable of the Dullards’ house. Mr. and Mrs. Dullard hated all birds, especially pigeons. Mr. Dullard even tries to hit...

A romantic romp of brave heroes, devious villains, desperate battles, and true love, this epic tale of high adventure and daring-do is highly recommended for fans of Dumas. The novel is loosely based on the exploits of John Paul Jones, a captain in the American Navy during the revolutionary war.

This novel tells the story of two families, English and American, on whom circumstances have played a strange prank which might have had unhappy consequences. As an experiment, they send off their sons to see the other’s country, but then war intervenes, and the story of the Wyldes and the Rendels shows the problems and the promise of Anglo-American relationships now and for the future.

In Mary Wakefield, the third book in the Jalna series, a young English woman is hired by Ernest Whiteoak to be a governess to Philip’s motherless children. When Philip falls in love with her, his mother does all she can to prevent the marriage.

Young Renny takes us to1906. Renny, the young master of Jalna, is just eighteen. His twenty-year-old sister Meg is engaged to marry the young man next door, Maurice Vaughan Uncle Nick and Uncle Ernest, now in their fifties, have squandered their inheritances abroad on high living and reside again...

Lambert, a little lamb with an angelic singing voice, is carried off to the South Pole by rich, grouchy Mr. Van Grunt, who plans to eat him one day. Instead, the two become best friends and enjoy the adventure of a lifetime.

Dopo il divorzio è un romanzo di Grazia Deledda pubblicato nel 1902, in un periodo in cui già da diversi anni era in corso una animato dibattito sull’introduzione del divorzio in Italia.

Due giovani sorelle di nobile famiglia, Anna e Laura, rimaste orfane, sono affidate alla tutela di un amico di casa, Cesare Dias, gaudente e solitario gentiluomo, amante delle donne, del giuoco, dei cavalli e dei viaggi. La più giovane delle due, di temperamento sensibile e irrequieto, presto si...

In like manner had sprung to life the love between Hugh Vallincourt and Diane Wielitzska, and rarely has the web of love enmeshed two more dissimilar and ill-matched people—Hugh, a man of seven-and-thirty, the strict and somewhat self-conscious head of a conspicuously devout old English family,...

Elles sont deux, Renée et Louise, qui, à peine sorties du couvent, vont suivre des destinées contraires. Faut-il mettre de la passion dans le mariage ? Ou y chercher un bonheur raisonnable ? Derrière cette « dispute », menée par correspondance, une lutte sourde oppose deux ambitions : Renée...

Emilio Salgari è stato uno degli scrittori italiani di romanzi d’avventura fra i più popolari. Autore straordinariamente prolifico, è ricordato soprattutto per il ciclo dei pirati della Malesia. Scrisse anche diverse storie fantastiche ed è considerato uno dei precursori della fantascienza in...

  Emilio Salgari è stato uno degli scrittori italiani di romanzi d’avventura fra i più popolari. Autore straordinariamente prolifico, è ricordato soprattutto per il ciclo dei pirati della Malesia. Scrisse anche diverse storie fantastiche ed è considerato uno dei precursori della fantascienza...

This is essentially a novel of contrast — a story of light and shade, a contrast of Sicilian exuberance with the restraints of life in a Massachusetts fishing village. Restlessness washes over the small town of Saltport with the sea wind that disturbs Diego Palmer’s latest landscape painting....

Beautiful young Phoebe was desperate! Cruel and cunning Hiram Greene had declared his intention to marry her. At first, Phoebe didn’t take Hiram seriously. After all, he couldn’t force her into marriage. Then Hiram launched a shrewd campaign of deceit and lies about Phoebe. Soon everyone around...