Blondie

Historic Girls

Delve into the past with twelve engrossing stories about real young women who left their mark on history. (Summary by Carmen H)

Bold Venture

The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

"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 …

Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them...