Monthly Archives: September 2015

The Belton Estate

The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope

The Belton Estate by Anthony Trollope

Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other than to marry. She is lucky enough to have two eligible suitors, and chooses the more urbane and worldly of the two. Alas, however, she realizes fairly quickly that Captain Aylmer is not a nice person. Throughout much of the novel we find her trying hard not to recognize that Will Belton – the suitor she rejected, and who still loves and wants to marry her – is.

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey’s head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left. What’s going on here? It’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare at his most fanciful.

The play opens with Theseus, Duke of Athens, preparing for his wedding. Egeus complains to Theseus that his daughter Hermia refuses to marry Demetrius. When Hermia is given the choice between marriage to Demetrius or life as a nun, she and her true love Lysander flee into the forest. Demetrius follows them; and Helena, who loves Demetrius, follows him.

Also in the forest are Oberon and Titania, king and queen of the fairies, at odds with one another. At Oberon’s behest, Puck causes Demetrius to fall in love with Helena — oops, he missed, that was Lysander instead. Mayhem ensues.

In the meantime, a group of bumbling craftsmen rehearses a play. Puck gives one of them, Bottom, the head of an ass and makes Titania fall in love with him. Further hilarity results as Bottom sees nothing at all odd about this. Eventually everything is straightened out, Bottom and the rest “perform” their play, there is a triple wedding, and Puck assures us the whole thing has been a dream.

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To Have and to Hold

To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

To Have and to Hold by Mary Johnston

A story that takes place in colonial Jamestown in 1600, To Have and To Hold melds itself to a combination of a romance novel, a sea faring story, as well as an adventure story.

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The Life and Amours of the Beautiful Kate Percival

The Life and Amours of the Beautiful Kate Percival by Kate Percival

The Life and Amours of the Beautiful Kate Percival by Kate Percival

This surprisingly explicit of erotica follows the sexual awakening and subsequent adventures of its author, Kate Percival, the “belle of the Delaware.”

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The Valley of the Giants

The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne

The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. Kyne

The man was John Cardigan; in that lonely, hostile land he was the first pioneer. This is the tale of Cardigan and Cardigan’s son, for in his chosen land the pioneer leader in the gigantic task of hewing a path for civilization was to know the bliss of woman’s love and of parenthood, and the sorrow that comes of the loss of a perfect mate; he was to know the tremendous joy of accomplishment and worldly success after infinite labor; and in the sunset of life he was to know the dull despair of failure and ruin. Because of these things there is a tale to be told, the tale of Cardigan’s son, who, when his sire fell in the fray, took up the fight to save his heritage–a tale of life with its love and hate, its battle, victory, defeat, labor, joy, and sorrow, a tale of that unconquerable spirit of youth which spurred Bryce Cardigan to lead a forlorn hope for the sake not of wealth but of an ideal.

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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox Jr.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox Jr.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr. The novel became Fox’s most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels.

Set in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the twentieth century, a feud has been boiling for over thirty years between two influential mountain families: the Tollivers and the Falins. The outside world and industrialization, however, is beginning to enter the area. Coal mining begins to exert its influence on the area, despite of the two families feuds. Entering the area, enterprising “furriner” (foreigner) John Hale captures the attention of the beautiful June Tolliver, and inadvertently becomes entangled in the region’s politics.

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