Tag: Great

Anna Furtado | The Heart’s Desire | Travel back in time to the early Renaissance town of Willowglen Township. Catherine Hawkins, a spice merchant and healer, prepares for the autumn fair

Djuna Barnes | Nightwood | The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece–one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.

Nightwood, Djuna Barnes’ strange and sinuous tour de fo

Elisabeth Craigin | Either is Love | ‘The revealing, sensual drama of surrender to lesbian desire.’

‘After the death of her husband the narrator re-reads the letters she had writ

Joan Schenkar | Truly Wilde | Born a scant three months after her uncle Oscar’s notorious arrest, raised in the shadow of the greatest scandal of the turn of the twentieth century,

G. Sheila Donisthorpe | Loveliest of Friends | The world condemned their love.

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From the back:

Perverse

When this book first appeared in England, it created a sensatio

Barbara Wilson (2) | Blue Windows | From Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christian Science, to Deepak Chopra, Americans have struggled with the connection between health an

Peter Prince | Play Things | The 27-year-old hero of Play Things recently graduated and landed a job at a top architectural firm, but, he says, “I got tired.” Now he’s dropped out

Dorothy Strachey | Olivia |