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...s of Lord Lane. Why, he wonders, is he thus drawn to this beautiful youth? And has the boy a sister? Co-author Alice Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, New York, mentions in her memoirs that she sailed for Europe after a boyfriend tried to shoot her. In London she met literary editor Charles Williamson and began writing for the story magazines of media mogul Lord Northcliffe. At...

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... with the imaginary characters are Clyde Fitch, Anna Held, Mr. Frohman and several other flesh-and-blood personages that strengthen the realism. (New York Times review, June 4, 1922)...

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...en with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intensely persona... ... artist, Bartlett writes with ease and taste.” J. DONALD ADAMS in The New York Times: “...the freshest, most vital writing I have seen for some time...

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...American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. Her 1918 novella The Marne dramatizes the events of the war as seen through the eyes of...

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...ection of humorous letters written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. They were published regularly in the New York Mercury Sunday newspaper for the four years of the war. In the letters, Newell pokes fun at northern generals, politicians, and has hard things to say about southerners. Although Newell is rarely serious, I imagine the l...

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... on 1 May that year. A substantially different version, which incorporated the plot of Psmith, Journalist, was published in the US by W. J. Watt, New York on 14 February 1912, and is the only version now widely available. (This is the version presented here.) The story tells of how unscrupulous millionaire Benjamin Scobell decides to build a casino on the small Mediterrane...

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...om December 1915, and in the UK in Strand Magazine starting December 1916. It first appeared in book form on March 17, 1916 by D. Appleton & Co., New York, and later in the UK (on October 4, 1917) by Methuen & Co., London. A silent, black-and-white film version was made in 1918. Summary by Tim Bulkeley based on data from Wikipedia...

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...Mary Roberts Rinehart -- America's Agatha Christie, as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he...

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...This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women ...

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...king, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allies against the Bri...

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...me, and willing to stand up to the living legend to reach her. This initial meeting leads to a friendship between the two and they travel east to New York City on the trail of the girl. When they find the girl, Caroline Smith, and she refuses to leave, Ronicky must discover the secret that holds her. They encounter the sinister John Mark and the beautiful Ruth Tolliver and...

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...ovies between 1933 and 1939. Only 3 of them had anti-Jewish overtones. Both the New-York Times and Business Week predicted ‘a steady decline of jing... ...Even terrorists are rumored to have made use of this encryption technology. The New-York Times hinted that the September 11 attacks on the USA were ...

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...most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, with a Harvard education and membership to New York City’s ultra-exclusive private club St. James. But at night he puts on a costume and becomes The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, grey paper seal behind to mark...

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...the fastest horses in the territory. She told me she had an uncle back in New York, who raised horses. “I’ve never been there, but my father told ... ...efully. “The telegram was addressed to a Mr. Albert Peterson of Elmira, New York. It notified him that Mr. and Mrs. Peterson’s home burned and tha...

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...out the tall one is Sheriff of Deadwood. The other one’s from back east… New York. Lost his wife a few years back at childbirth and came west to ra...

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...hester, great uncle to the King. (CARDINAL:) RICHARD PLANTAGENET : Duke of York. (YORK:) EDWARD and RICHARD: his sons DUKE OF SOMERSET : (SOMERSE... ... SALISBURY, WARWICK, and CARDINAL, on the one side; QUEEN MARGARET, SUFFOLK, YORK, SOMERSET, and BUCKINGHAM, on the other .] SUFFOLK: As by your high... ...eate thee the first duke of Suffolk, And gird thee with the sword. Cousin of York, We here discharge your grace from being regent I’ the parts of Fran... ...rm of eighteen months Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester, Gloucester, York, Buckingham, Somerset, Salisbury, and Warwick; We thank you all for ... ...p by policy what Henry got? Have you yourselves, Somerset, Buckingham, Brave York, Salisbury, and victorious Warwick, Received deep scars in France an... ... again with peaceful words? Mort Dieu! Henry VI, Part Two, Act I, scene i 8 YORK: For Suffolk’s duke, may he be suffocate, That dims the honor of th... ...st favor of the commons, Excepting none but good Duke Humphrey: And, brother York, thy acts in Ireland, In bringing them to civil discipline, Thy late... ...So God help Warwick, as he loves the land, And common profit of his country! YORK: [Aside] And so says York, for he hath greatest cause. SALISBURY:... ...h I will win from France, or else be slain, [Exeunt WARWICK and SALISBURY .] YORK: Anjou and Maine are given to the French; Paris is lost; the state ...

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...of Wales, (PRINCE EDWARD:) afterwards King Edward V., and RICHARD: Duke of York, (YORK:) sons to the King. GEORGE: Duke of Clarence, (CLARENCE:) an... ... : Archbishop of Canterbury. (CAR DINAL:) THOMAS ROTHERHAM: Archbishop of York. (ARCH BISHOP OF YORK:) JOHN MORTON : Bishop of Ely. (BISHOP OF EL... ...ZA BETH:) MARGARET: Widow of King Henry VI. (QUEEN MARGA RET:) DUCHESS of YORK : Mother to King Edward IV. LADY ANNE : Widow of Edward Prince of ... ...ER: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house In the deep bosom of ... ...ildish drops: These eyes that never shed remorseful tear, No, when my father York and Edward wept, To hear the piteous moan that Rutland made When bla... ... catch each other by the throat, And turn you all your hatred now on me? Did York’s dread curse prevail so much with heaven? That Henry’s death, my lo... ...ed toward England, And cited up a thousand fearful times, During the wars of York and Lancaster That had befall’n us. As we paced along Upon the giddy... ... Ay, so we will. CLARENCE: Tell him, when that our princely father York Bless’d his three sons with his victorious arm, And charged us from ... ...chard III, Act II, scene i 38 SCENE II: The palace. [Enter the DUCHESS OF YORK, with the two children of CLARENCE.] Boy: Tell me, good grandam, is...

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...scence, Combourg 1784-1786 Book IV Regiment, Court, Paris 1786-1789 Book V Revolution 1789-1791 Book VI To America 1791 Book VII Travels in New York State 1791 Book VIII Kentucky, Virginia, Return to France 1791-1792 Book IX With the Army of the Princes 1792 Book X Exile in England 1793-1797 Book XI First Literary Works 1798-1799 Book XII England, and Return ...

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...keasy as the violence of the all-female Killdeer Gang reaches vigilante-inspired fever pitch in "The Birth." Flying taxis fight for space over New York as Johnny Grant, Private Eye, sifts streets rife with murder and corruption in "The Maltese Spectrum." It's class-warfare in Citadel City as Pandora Driver and her Car of Tomorrow cruise the shadowy streets in search ...