The Angel of Darkness
By Caleb Carr"In The Angel of Darkness, Caleb Carr brings back the vivid world of his bestselling The Alienist but with a twist: this story is told by the former street urchin Stevie Taggert, whose...
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By John JakesA German teenager arrives in Chicago in 1892 expecting the immigrant ideal of streets paved with gold. It isn't, of course, but what he does find, freedom, is worth more. Describes in...
View ArticleThe Story of a Nobody
By Anton ChekhovWith St. Petersburg awash with extravagant, dissolute bureaucrats concerned only with increasing their vast riches, a secret movement infiltrates one of its members into one such...
View ArticleThe Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
By Sarah Orne JewettA "coming of age" novel from the year 1896. Lovely stories written in lovely prose, this short description of life and people in one small Maine town is part of an anthology that...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Calpurnia Tate
By Jacqueline KellyIn central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the...
View ArticleDorchester Terrace: A Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novel by Anne Perry
For those who have followed Charlotte and Thomas Pitt from their awkward yet charming days of courtship in The Cater Street Hangman, Anne Perry’s recent Dorchester Terrace is a very enjoyable...
View ArticleTeetoncey by Theodore Taylor
Storms batter the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Always have. Always will. Ships break up in those dangerous seas. Sometimes there are survivors but oftentimes not. It’s 1898, and waiting and watching...
View ArticleClara and Mr. Tiffany by Susan Vreeland
Set in the Gilded Age of the 1890s through the beginning of the 20th century, Clara and Mr. Tiffany, by Susan Vreeland, paints a not always pretty picture of New Yorkers’ lives during one of the city’s...
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