Gorgeous Isle explores a poet’s moral choice amid drink
Mrs Atherton’s new romance places Werner the poet in a conflict between art and perilous alcohol. His wife must decide whether to sustain his marriage and humanity or save him by suppressing the inspiration that could yield a masterwork. Set on Nevis, the story probes ethics and temperament.
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RS. Atherton
Mrs. Atherton
Shelley
Keats
Byron
Werner
Warner
West Indies
Nevis
Caribbean
Palace of Danger at the Court of Louis XV
A brisk romance involving Mme de Pompadour and Louis XV centers on a St Cyr student with a remarkable voice and the Count de Vrie. In the Marquise palace a hidden room shelters the Count as he seeks the Favorite. A staged ghost and a broken leg drive the plot toward Pompadour regaining royal favor.
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Mabel Wagnalls
Funk & Wagnalls Company
Louis XV
Mme. de Pompadour
Louis
St. Cyr
Count de Vrie
Danger
The Trail of the Badger by Sidford F Hamp review
A historical adventure set along the Colorado border follows two teens from a mining town as they seek a lost Spanish mine. They encounter friends foes and wild animals and discover remnants of an ancient Pueblo irrigation system guiding them toward desert reclamation.
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Rocky Mountains
Sidford F.hamp
Wv.a. Wilde Company
Boston
Colorado
The Leaven of Love by Clara Louise Burnham
A tense novel set in San Diego at a disguised Coronado Hotel uses Sibyl the talkative wife as the moral force. She preaches a mix of theosophy Christian Science and Christianity and helps resolve the plot while the red haired woman remains unhappy.
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Clara Louise Burnham
Houghton Mifflin Company
San Diego
Coronado Hotel
Regina Beach
Siby
Redhaired
The Testing of Diana Mallory by Mrs. Humphry Ward
A vivid, dramatic novel about Diana Mallory on the eve of her engagement to a nobleman’s son. She uncovers painful truths about her dead mother as she faces a storm of personal crisis and moral testing. The author’s grace and distinction are evident throughout this compelling tale.
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Diana Mallory
Humphry Ward
Mrs. Ward
The Witching Hour love story novel preview
A vivid description praises The Witching Hour as a great novel emerging from a play. It highlights dramatic intensity humorous tone and a romance built on telepathy and thought transference offering curious novelty.
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Thomas
Immortal Soul Novel Shapes Dual Persona in Love
A charming girl veils a double personality that mystifies a pastor, a scientist, and a brilliant suitor. The tale follows one woman who is two people in one, a thrilling psychological study bound to provoke discussion. Each reader encounters a vivid, evolving arc as identity and desire collide.
The Whole Family A Novel by Twelve Authors
A multi author serialized novel story about a charming American girl and her lively family. Twelve distinguished writers contributed a chapter each, including Howells, Freeman, Bangs, Andrews, Cutting, Brown, van Dyke, Phelps, Jordan, Wyatt, Vorse, and Henry James, producing a brisk readable tale. A doorstop history volume offers a complementary option, The American Nation complete after seven years of scholarly work, with a ballot promising access.
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W.D. Howells
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
John Kendrick Bangs
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Mary Stewart Cutting
Alice Brown
Henry van Dyke
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Jordan
Edith Wyatt
Mary Heaton Vorse
Henry James
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Gertrude Atherton
C. Cotes Phillien
New York
Doubleday, Page & Co
Putnam's New Books
Northampton
Lyman P. Powell
Christian Science
Comte de Rambuteau
J. C. Brogan
Georges Seguin
Napoleon I
Napoleon
L. DE Launay
Ecole Superieure Des Mines Soc
Putnam's & the Reader
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
London
the Knickerbocker Press
Goerck Art Press
Sixth Ave
53D Street
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow
Howard Chandler Christy
the Dobbs-Merril Co., Publishers
P. Box
Augustus Thomas
W. H. Mallock
Schoarly
Harpers Harpers Harper Bazar
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