Marion: 1935 books

Do you dream of writingbooks for children? In addition to the expert advice author Marion Crook shared in earlier editions of Writing for Children and Young Adults, in this vibrant new edition, Crook explains some of the nuances and choices about the writing world online. As well, she revisits the...

A towering figure on the American cultural landscape, H.L. Mencken stands out as one of our most influential stylists and fearless iconoclasts--the twentieth century's greatest newspaper journalist, a famous wit, and a constant figure of controversy. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers has written the definitive...

“Suspenseful and gripping.” —Sunday Telegraph (UK)   A woman abandons her past—and the best friend with whom she was once inseparable—in Marion McGilvary’s startling novel, A Lost Wife’s Tale. A riveting story of love, betrayal, and living in a strange city under...

This volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Asquith, Cynthia: “The Corner Shop” Benson, E. F.: “Caterpillars” Benson, E. F.: “The Face” Bierce, Ambrose: “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” Bierce, Ambrose: “The Middle Toe of the...

Even small ghosts can be spooky.... A collection of classic short ghost stories involving children: Spooky, with a hint of sweet. The flight includes: The Other Child, by E. Nesbit The Wind in the Rose-bush, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Their Dear Little Ghost, by Elia Wilkinson Peattie Morella,...

What is it that stops people from knowing what they want? How often do we wonder where we are going and what our world is all about? Written in 1936 as a companion piece to A Life of One’s Own, An Experiment in Leisure further charts Marion Milner’s illuminating and rewarding investigation...

A fire rages in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Prisoners have set the crematorium ablaze. They flee into the surrounding woods, yearning for freedom. They run, pursued by the hated soldiers and their wretched dogs. Desperate to escape the German boot that has lorded over them for years. But...

This early work by Marion Craig Wentworth was originally published in 1915 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'War Brides: A Play in One Act' is a drama about a young woman whose husband is killed in the fighting of the First World War. She contemplates suicide but...

The cockroach could not have scuttled along, almost unchanged, for two hundred and fifty million years – some two hundred and forty-nine before man evolved – unless it was doing something right. It would be fascinating as well as instructive to have access to the cockroach’s own record of its...

If you are facing divorce after a long marriage or later in life, meet the Harrys and Sallys in the book 30 years later. More of them are ending their marriages without fighting and without court. These "grey divorcees" are thinking about personal freedom, divorce and retirement, while keeping the...

Juxtaposing Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, Marion Holmes Katz shows how over the centuries legal scholars' arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim women's...

Delsie knew it wasn't a good idea to dare her best friend Todd to explore the abandoned houses by the old mill. But she couldn't back down after the words slipped out of her mouth. Together the two friends bike to the mill and try the door of each abandoned house. They are all locked . . . except...

The fundamental documents written by Mgr. Melchior de Marion Bresillac while founding the Society of African Missions (SMA).

German Jewess Margarete doesn't want to die… ...but to survive she has to become the one person she hates most in this world.   Destined for deportation to a labor camp, she has nowhere to hide. When a bomb hits her building, she emerges from the rubble unscathed. But...