Henry James

This brilliant satire of the womens rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward into a celebrated activist and lifetime companion? Or...

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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Every one asks me what I &'think&' of everything, said Spencer Brydon; and I make answer as I can - begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn&'t matter to any of them really, he went on, for, even were it possible to meet...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Yes indeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression. The little story is all there, I can touch it from point to point; for the thread, as I call it, is a row of coloured beads on a...

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