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Robert Holton has returned from Europe and settled into a solitary existence working for a New York stockbroker. He suppresses memories of nights of love in Florence as he tries to succeed in the city, but when Carla turns up he has to choose between conventionality and the fraught path of love.
Excerpt: "There stands in one of the northern counties of Scotland, in the midst of a wild and wooded landscape, with the background of a fine range of hills, and in the vicinity of a noble trout-stream, a great palace, uninhabited and unfinished. It is of the French-Scottish style of...
The Greatest Heiress in England by Mrs. Oliphant
Phoebe, Junior: A Last Chronicle of Carlingford follows the exploits of its heroine, Phoebe Beecham, as she learns the true history of her family history. She has been raised to have the manners of a lady. When she goes on a long visit to her shop-keeper grandparents in Carlingford she expects she...
One of Queen Victoria's favorite writers, Margaret Oliphant's novels were often set in her native Scotland. In the popular novel Merkland, a spirited young Scottish woman is laid low by adversity and comes to learn about the value of honoring others' needs before one's own.
So you wish to dump your corporate stall and join the ranks of web laborers? But you have a mortgage, perhaps a dependent or two, and a taste for Cafe Mochas from Starbucks? You are able to make cash in the new economy, though it may not be as simple or cushy as keeping your old economic system...
There was once a poor peasant woman who sold milk. Every day she filled her cans with milk and went to a near-by town and sold it, returning with her cans empty. One day, when she set out she took her little baby daughter with her. In each hand the mother carried a milk can, and the baby held to...
Reveille was over at the military school, and the three boys on the end of the line nearest the mess hall walked slowly toward the broad steps of the big brick building ahead. They differed greatly in type, but of this they were unconscious, for all were deep in thought. “I am going home”...
Down on the edge of the Poppy Field there is a very large, wide lake; the largest lake you have ever seen. Of course there are deeper lakes across the mountains where you have never been, but Poppy Lake is quite deep enough. When you turn your back and lean down and look between your legs so that...