This acclaimed and bestselling romantic historical novel by award-winning author Ciji Ware tells the true story of passionate and flamboyant Jane Maxwell, the 4th Duchess of Gordon (1749-1812). In love since childhood with Thomas Fraser, when she hears that he's been killed in America, she marries the Duke of Gordon with disastrous results. But Fraser, very much alive, returns to England to claim her love.
Alex Forley had everything: good looks, money, a beautiful house in London, an attractive girlfriend and a close group of friends. But now he is dead - an apparent case of suicide. Detective Inspector Rod Eliot isn't sure Alex killed himself and he wants the answers to two simple questions.Was it murder? And if so, who did it?
Act One: We begin shortly after the battle of Shrewsbury, in which King Henry IV was victorious over the rebel forces and Prince Hal killed Harry Hotspur in single combat. But another rebellion is on its way.
This casebook to Morrison's classic novel presents seven essays that represent the best in contemporary criticism of the book. In addition, the book includes a poem and an abolitionist's tract published after a slave named Margaret Garner killed her child to save her from slavery--the very incident Morrison fictionalizesin Beloved.
Forty years after its original publication, James Agee's last novel
seems, more than ever, an American classic. For in his lyrical,
sorrowful account of a man's death and its impact on his family, Agee
painstakingly created a small world of domestic happiness and then
showed how quickly and casually it could be destroyed.
On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in
Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying.
The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his
family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Dancing back
and forth in time and braiding the viewpoints of Jay's wife, brother,
and young son, Rufus, Agee creates an overwhelmingly powerful novel of
innocence, tenderness, and loss that should be read aloud for the sheer
music of its prose.
