The Ark
1) Cape Cod
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1893
Edition
New Riverside ed.
Physical Desc
336 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine Slate. He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000.
This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
1909
Physical Desc
376 p.
Language
English
Description
Ann Veronica is a New Woman novel by H.G. Wells. Ann Veronica describes the rebellion of Ann Veronica Stanley, "a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty," against her middle-class father's stern patriarchal rule. The novel dramatizes the contemporary problem of the New Woman. It is set in Victorian era London and environs, except for an Alpine excursion. Ann Veronica offers vignettes of the Women's suffrage movement in Great Britain and features a chapter...
Author
Publisher
Pr. of the Readers Club
Pub. Date
1909
Language
English
Description
The History of Mr. Polly is a 1910 comic novel by H. G. Wells. The protagonist of The History of Mr. Polly is an antihero inspired by H. G. Wells's early experiences in the drapery trade: Alfred Polly, born circa 1870, a timid and directionless young man living in Edwardian England, who despite his own bumbling achieves contented serenity with little help from those around him. Mr. Polly's most striking characteristic is his "innate sense of epithet",...
4) Chance
Author
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & company
Pub. Date
1913
Physical Desc
468 p. 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Love story complicated by mutual misunderstanding.