Maurice: 1983 books

This sophisticated and intricate novel, based on true events, takes place in the late nineteenth century and begins with Henry Clifford, a man of taste and worldly philosophy, whose simple determination to do as he likes and live as he wishes is threatened when his daughter falls in love with an unsuitable...

Love is a long journey. Lisa Benedict needed a date for a bar mitzvah, but when the escort she hired arrives he’s not just good looking, he’s also kind, gentle, and protective. He makes her feel sexy again and she wants to keep him around. But she doesn’t know that the terrible abuse...

Some things are worth keeping. Some guys are keepers. Dina Paxson has a few days before going back to work as activities director on a cruise ship to straighten out a billing snafu at the storage facility. A year ago, her calm head during a crisis on her ship put her marriage onto the rocks...

Love can't flourish in the dark. Fifteen years ago, Elaine fell in love with Johnny McMannus, the local bad boy. He was nineteen and she was jailbait. To keep them both out of trouble, Johnny left town. But years later his father's heart attack brings him back to run the family garage....

Little Novels of Italy by the English historical novelist, poet and essayist,Maurice Hewlett.He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891....

The Common Man, Maurice Manning’s fourth collection, is a series of ballad-like narratives, set down in loose, unrhymed iambic tetrameter, that honors the strange beauty of the Kentucky mountain country he knew as a child, as well as the idiosyncratic adventures and personalities of the oldtimers...

Marie Franklin set up her veterinary practice in tiny Weaver's Circle to hide her association to one of the biggest names in rock and roll. Helping Will Perkins with his rescue puppy is a great in and falling for him is better. But this puppy is one of the Bachelor Party Rescue Puppies and Marie's...

Life on the Road is a collection of short love stories with a distinctive Australian theme. These are as much about a love of the country, as they are about the characters that live there. Some of them are based around the cities, while others are set in this vast, largely uninhabited, countryside....

Award Winning Poetry. Featuring, 'Holding Back A Tear, Reflections, Death Of A Friendship, and the acclaimed 'The Cross.'

Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "Wrinkled deep in time" is how the queen describes herself in Antony...

En La vida de las hormigas, Maurice Maeterlinck, premio Nobel de Literatura, vuelve a hacer gala de su interés entomológico y decide observar el minúsculo universo de estos prodigiosos insectos con la convicción de que encierra innombrables misterios pero que, a la vez, puede despertar un sinfín...

La vida de las abejas, «un mundo aéreo, optimista y exterior», es estudiada por el poeta con ciencia y paciencia de entomólogo y con exactitud e ingenio, el escritor observa la vida dentro y fuera de la colmena, y estudia sus querencias, observa sus caminos y tiene en cuenta sus misterios. La...

At the heart of Maurice Riordan's third collection is a sequence of eighteen dramatic idylls set in rural Cork in the 1950s, in which the subdued microcosm of farm and smallholding - of boundary, townland and parish - is defined through the individual voices of the poet's father and assorted friends,...

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a thrilling mystery concerning twentieth-century pirates smuggling secret cargo across the English Channel. James Carthew-West, the penniless skipper of the Exmouth coasting vessel Luck and Charity, is chartered...