I think I will always remember The Princess Priscilla’s Fortnight by Elizabeth von Arnim as the book that made me want to get an e-reader. Just knowing it was out there and available for free was too tempting. A humorous fairy tale-like story from my beloved Elizabeth von Arnim? I had to...
The Solitary Summer is a partially autobiographical novel first published in 1899. It’s an account of a summer spent in the country, away from the social world in which a woman of Elizabeth Von Arnim’s social stance was supposed to move. It’s also a companion to Von Arnim’s more famous...
A police road block on the highway to chiang mai on a hot day. A policeman who takes more than his lunch break and decides to join a card game with his friends. An unscheduled encounter with a scorpion ultimately leads the policeman into some very hot water
Explains the universe, evolution and life as constructs of creation from the Intelligent Design of a Creator and God perspective and the evidence and proof for existence of a God and Creator. Looks at Intelligent Design through quantum/nano physics of atom-energy, etc. and creation taking into...
LEARNING SPOKEN ENGLISH tells you how to learn to speak English in half the time it would require in even the best grammar-based English training programs. If you live in a country where good English is not regularly spoken, for each hour of study you can learn how to speak in even less than half...
If you are a totally fresh traveler to Tibet, do not worry. The Tibet Travel Guide will tell you how to design your tour to Tibet, what to prepare for your trip, how to make a wonderful trip at the top of the world, etc. Free download Official Tibet Travel Guide. Author Celine Gong have been...
Breathless is the first book in the Blue Fire Saga, a paranormal romance series set at a small college in present day Connecticut. There are currently five books in the series Breathless, Deathless, Helpless, Fearless and Heartless. Weston College freshman Leesa Nyland has been fascinated by...
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the romantic delusions through which wives acquiesce in husbands' tyrannies. In outline the story of this utterly unromantic novel anticipates DuMaurier's Rebecca. Naive...
Christine is purportedly a compilation of letters from a "gifted young English girl studying in Germany just before the outbreak of the war" (Charms 188) to her mother in Britain. Written by Elizabeth von Arnim and presented under her anonymous pen-name Alice Cholmondeley, the work dated from May...
