Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author: Harriet Beecher StowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Wadhams Genealogy
Author: Mrs. Harriet Weeks (Wadhams) StevensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Author: Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063417
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.
History of the Early Settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois
Author: John Carroll PowerPublisher:
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Category : Illinois
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River, 1660-1916
Author: James SpruntPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Portland Transcript
Author: History of Hancock County, Indiana
Author: John H. BinfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenfield (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The Circular Staircase
Author: Mary Roberts RinehartPublisher: Standard Ebooks
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Wealthy spinster Rachel Innes and her niece and nephew, Gertrude and Halsey, rent a country house called Sunnyside for the summer. Upon arrival, the butler reveals to them that he believes there’s a ghost in the house. During the first night, Rachel is roused from sleep by strange sounds. The next night she’s awakened by a revolver shot, and discovers a dead body at the foot of the house’s circular staircase. The investigation into the murder reveals the house and its owners, the Armstrong family, hold many secrets. The Circular Staircase was published in 1908 and is credited with pioneering the “Had I but known” school of mystery writing, a form of foreshadowing that hints at impending disaster through the narrator’s regrets of their actions. The novel was adapted as a silent film in 1915, and most notably as a hit Broadway play, “The Bat” in 1920. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
A Midwife's Tale
Author: Laurel Thatcher UlrichPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307772985
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review). Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.