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Dracula

“We've all become God's madmen, all of us.” Author: Bran Stoker There are some stories that need no introduction – some stories that live and walk in our darkest fantasies and waking nightmares, that populate our legends and inform our culture, that have woven themselves into the tapestry of our speech and the way we understand our own histories. Dracula is surely one of these stories. Indeed, Dracula epitomizes an immortal romance that grows beyond a tale and becomes a living myth. Look no further than the nearly supernatural land of Transylvania – dour, populated with craggy, windswept mountains and superstitions [...]

2025-01-12T12:39:06-07:00January 12th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

Small House at Allington, The

Affairs of the Heart Author: Anthony Trollope The Small House at Allington starts with a whirlwind spring courtship. Poor but pretty Lily Dale has found the man of her dreams. Crosbie, her happy suitor, thinks that Lily’s rich uncle, who has benevolently given her impoverished family a place to live, will gift her with a large dowry. When he finds out that he is mistaken, however, he grows distant. He thinks about other opportunities, wasted chances, an old love he was close to wooing, and he begins to plan his way out. He may be a cad, but it is better [...]

2025-01-04T19:11:50-07:00January 4th, 2025|Tags: , , , , , , |

Good Earth, The

Life, Land, Love Author: Pearl S. Buck Wang Lung has never wanted anything more than land. He loves the soil he tills, and his one ambition in life is to get more land. To him, this is wealth, this is status. He starts out a simple man with simple hopes and ambitions, but as his situation improves, his greed grows. As Wang Lung builds his own personal empire, the world around him crumbles, and the China he knows changes. But no famines, wars, outside forces, or distractions, can keep him away from the land for long. When he comes to die, [...]

2024-11-11T14:01:24-07:00November 11th, 2024|Tags: , , , |
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