Monthly Archives: December 2019

The Golden Lion of Granpere

The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope

The Golden Lion of Granpere by Anthony Trollope

Set in a village in the Vosges mountains in north-eastern France, this short and very entertaining novel concerns the events in the lives of an innkeeper’s family; the relationship between George Voss, the landlord’s son, and his beloved Marie, the rivalry between Voss and another suitor for Marie’s hand in marriage, and the results of a betrothal based on mutual misunderstandings.

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Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress – Volume 3

Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress - Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress – Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name.

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The Trail of the Hawk

The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis

The Trail of the Hawk by Sinclair Lewis

Trail of the Hawk, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his style and immense talent are certainly evident.

We travel with The Hawk, or Carl Ericson, son of Norwegian immigrants, born at the end of the 19th century through the first three adventurous periods of the young man’s life. We see him as an adventurous boy, running away with Gertie Cowels, the girl that lives in the big house in the better part of town, only to be rescued by Bone Stillman, a backwoods philosopher and influence on Carl.

We travel with him as he leaves his childhood, Gertie and Joralemon behind, for a short attempt at higher education, then to pursue the hobo life, a Bowery bartender, an engineer in Panama and an aviator. It is during the aviator phase that he becomes Hawk Ericson barnstorming his way across America, an exciting but dangerous lifestyle. Leaving aviation after too many close calls, and the loss of his best friend, he becomes an automobile man, and moves into phase three.

It is in phase three, love adventure, that we find The Hawk in New York, mingling with polite society quite by accident. He is smitten by Ruth Winslow, while riding on a streetcar after a fight with Gertie, and follows Ruth to a party which he crashes.

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Rappaccini’s Daughter

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Rappaccini’s Daughter is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, the beautiful daughter of Dr. Rappaccini, a scientist working in isolation. Beatrice is confined to the lush and locked gardens filled with poisonous plants by her father. Having fallen in love, Giovanni enters the garden and meets with Beatrice a number of times regardless of the warning of his mentor, Professor Baglioni, that Rappaccini is up to no good and he and his work should be avoided.

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Lover’s Vows

Lover's Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald

Lover's Vows by Elizabeth Inchbald

Lovers’ Vows, a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park, is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue’s Das Kind der Liebe (literally “Child of Love,” or “Natural Son,” as it is often translated). Inchbald’s version is the only one to have been performed. Dealing as it does with sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth, Inchbald in the Preface to the published version declares herself to have been highly sensitive to the task of adapting the original German text for “an English audience.” Even so, she left the setting as Germany.

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Run to Earth

Run to Earth by M. E. Braddon

Run to Earth by M. E. Braddon

A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of Lady Audley’s Secret, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love and lust, jealousy, intrigue, and suspense.

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Beatrice

Beatrice by Henry Rider Haggard

Beatrice by Henry Rider Haggard

Beatrice is a lonely twenty-two year old woman. After saving Geoffrey’s life, they fall in love. However, Geoffrey is married. In addition, a local rich land owner wants to marry the beautiful Beatrice. This is a romance by the author of King Solomon’s Mines, Allen Quatermain, and She.

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Daniel Deronda

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

In this enduring Victorian classic, two stories weave in and out of each other: The first is about Gwendolen, one of Eliot’s finest creations, who grows from a self-centered young beauty to a thoughtful adult with an expanded vision of the world around her. The second is about Daniel Deronda, adopted son of an aristocratic Englishman who becomes fascinated with Jewish traditions when he meets an ailing Jewish philosopher named Mordecai and his sensitive sister, Mirah.

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