The Romancers
By the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, this comic-romance formed the basis for the long-running 1960's musical "The Fantasticks".
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Johnny Liddell, the fast-moving New York private eye, is hired to investigate a murder which everyone but the client calls a suicide. The client, a beautiful heiress, unfortunately fails to appear at a rendezvous to explain matters; instead a very active tommy-gun enlivens the proceedings. Score: one gunman killed, Liddell unscathed. The gangsters turn out to be members of a syndicate run from Sing Sing, but their connection with the gir…
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By the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, this comic-romance formed the basis for the long-running 1960's musical "The Fantasticks".
Delve into the gripping real-life tale of Fanny Loviot, a young, affluent French maiden abducted at sea. Embark on a journey back to 1855 when Fanny set sail for California, only to find her ship seized by Chinese pirates demanding a kings ransom....
The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, guardianship of orphans, & disputed property disbursements. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to settle, changing the lives of those involved.
Explore the boundless possibilities of the future with The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon! In this utopian novel, Bacon envisions a society of the future in which scientific progress and humanistic values are combined to create a perfect world.
"The only fire for the whole house was the kitchen stove, with a fire box about eighteen inches long and eight inches wide and deep,- scant space for three or four small sticks, around which in hard zero weather all the family of ten shivered, and beneath which in the morning we found our socks and coarse, soggy boots frozen solid." Thus, with perceptive eye …