Skeeter Bill returns to Yellow Butte to celebrate the twelfth birthday of a boy named after him, only to learn that his friend Hooty Edwards has been imprisoned for a bank robbery ...
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Paris, Cousin Betty follows Lisbeth Fischer, an impoverished and unmarried woman whose long-standing jealousy and resentment toward her wealthy relati...
Set in medieval and Renaissance France, these tales follow beautiful women, powerful nobles, and clergymen entangled in extraordinary adventures of love and desire.
Secret seductio...
Clergymen, kings, nuns, and ordinary people become involved in unexpected adventures as their public morality clashes with their private desires.
Stories of authority, faith, chast...
The dangers of innocence, the pleasures of love, unfulfilled longing, and persistent obsession lead human emotions in unpredictable directions.
A mischievous sermon, strange events...
Monks, judges, pilgrims, and ordinary people encounter strange and amusing adventures shaped by the unpredictable turns of fate and human desire.
Tales of repentance, innocence, wi...
Chesterton examines how uncertain eugenic theories become claims to control marriage and reproduction. Challenging the authority granted to experts despite their limited ability to...
Chesterton argues that industrial inequality and the economic interests of powerful elites help drive eugenics. He criticizes attempts to regulate poor people’s lives and reproduc...
Eugénie Grandet, released in late 1833 with an 1834 publication date, is a novel by Honoré de Balzac about a young woman living under her wealthy but miserly father’s control in t...
Father Goriot, published in 1835, is a novel by Honoré de Balzac set in a Parisian boarding house during the Bourbon Restoration, where the lives of Goriot, a father devoted to his...
