| | 87 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | An Appreciation of H. G. Wells, Novelist  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | H.G. Wells
An illustrated portrait of H.G. Wells, flanked on either side
by the titles of his works: The War of the Worlds, In the Days of the
Comet, A Modern Utopia, The Future in America, New Worlds For Old,
First and Last Things, When the Sleeper Wakes, Tales of Space and
Time, Kipps, Tono Bungay, Mr. Polly, The New Machiavelli. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 89 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Woman at Eighteen-Mile | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Ornamental I
I HAD long wished to write a story of Death Valley that should be
its final word. It was to be so chosen from the limited sort of
incidents that could occur there, so charged with the still
ferocity of its moods, that I should at length be quit of its
obsession, free to concern myself about other affairs. And from
the moment of hearing of the finding of Lang's body at Dead Man's
Spring I knew I had struck upon the trail of that story. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 96 | Author: | Barr, Amelia E. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Remember the Alamo | | | | Published: | 1994 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | In A. D. sixteen hundred and ninety-two, a few Franciscan
monks began to build a city. The site chosen was a lovely
wilderness hundreds of miles away from civilization on every
side, and surrounded by savage and warlike tribes. But the
spot was as beautiful as the garden of God. It was shielded
by picturesque mountains, watered by two rivers, carpeted with
flowers innumerable,
shaded by noble trees joyful with the notes of a multitude of
singing birds. To breathe the balmy atmosphere was to be
conscious of some rarer and finer life, and the beauty of the
sunny skies—marvellous at dawn and eve with tints of saffron
and amethyst and opal—was like a dream of heaven. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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