FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   >>  
Anne Boleyn was forced to the block to make room for her successor. This romance is one of extreme interest to all readers. HORSESHOE ROBINSON. A tale of the Tory Ascendency in South Carolina in 1780. By John P. Kennedy. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by Watson Davis. Price, $1.00. Among the old favorites in the field of what is known as historical fiction, there are none which appeal to a larger number of Americans than Horseshoe Robinson, and this because it is the only story which depicts with fidelity to the facts the heroic efforts of the colonists in South Carolina to defend their homes against the brutal oppression of the British under such leaders as Cornwallis and Tarleton. The reader is charmed with the story of love which forms the thread of the tale, and then impressed with the wealth of detail concerning those times. The picture of the manifold sufferings of the people, is never overdrawn, but painted faithfully and honestly by one who spared neither time nor labor in his efforts to present in this charming love story all that price in blood and tears which the Carolinians paid as their share in the winning of the republic. Take it all in all, "Horseshoe Robinson" is a work which should be found on every book-shelf, not only because it is a most entertaining story, but because of the wealth of valuable information concerning the colonists which it contains. That it has been brought out once more, well illustrated, is something which will give pleasure to thousands who have long desired an opportunity to read the story again, and to the many who have tried vainly in these latter days to procure a copy that they might read it for the first time. THE PEARL OF ORR'S ISLAND. A story of the Coast of Maine. By Harriet Beecher Stowe. Cloth, 12mo. Illustrated. Price, $1.00. Written prior to 1862, the "Pearl of Orr's Island" is ever new: a book filled with delicate fancies, such as seemingly array themselves anew each time one reads them. One sees the "sea like an unbroken mirror all around the pine-girt, lonely shores of Orr's Island" and straightway comes "the heavy, hollow moan of the surf on the beach, like the wild angry howl of some savage animal." Who can read of the beginning of that sweet life, named Mara, which came into this world under the very shadow of the Death angel's wings, without having an intense desire to know ho
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   >>  



Top keywords:

colonists

 

efforts

 
Island
 

wealth

 
Robinson
 

Horseshoe

 
Carolina
 
Illustrated
 

Written

 

pleasure


thousands
 
Beecher
 

Harriet

 

procure

 

illustrated

 
vainly
 

ISLAND

 

desired

 
opportunity
 

beginning


animal

 

savage

 
intense
 

desire

 

shadow

 

filled

 

delicate

 
fancies
 
seemingly
 

brought


straightway

 

hollow

 

shores

 
lonely
 
mirror
 

unbroken

 

fiction

 
appeal
 

historical

 

favorites


larger

 
number
 

defend

 
brutal
 

oppression

 
heroic
 

Americans

 

depicts

 

fidelity

 

Watson