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Flame and Shadow (1920) is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale. The poet's fifth collection, published two years after she won the 1918 Pulitzer Prize, is a masterful collection of lyric poems meditating on life, death, and the natural world. Somber and celebratory, symbolic and grounded in experience, Flame and Shadow revels in the mystery of existence itself. "What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at all?" Content to depict the rhythms of nature, the songs of birds, and "the silver light after a storm," Teasdale's poetry dissolves the poet's ego in order to access a deeper well of creative energy: "For my mind is proud and strong enough to be silent, / It is my heart that makes my songs, not I." In "There Will Come Soft Rains," a poem born from a decade of war and widespread disease, Teasdale imagines a posthuman world where beauty and harmony continue despite our disappearance: "Robins will wear their feathery fire / Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war..." For Teasdale, a poet who merges an abiding affection for flora and fauna with a critical distance from human affairs, the belief in the life of the world, with or without us, is enough. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sara Teasdale's Flame and Shadow is a classic work of American poetry reimagined for modern readers.

A Son at the Front (1923), Edith Wharton's eleventh novel, is set during the First World War. When George Campton, an American painter, is sent to combat as a French soldier, the jumbled liaisons of his familial bonds are torn apart. A feverish and poignant character study, this is a powerful classic of American literature.

"Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing / Where the starlike sea gulls soar; / The sun was keen and the foam was blowing / High on the rocky shore." Capturing the sights and sounds of nature, Teasdale depicts the highs and lows of both love and the human experience. Love Songs is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

"What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring, / That my songs do not show me at all?" Content to depict birdsong and "the silver light after a storm," Teasdale's poems elide the self in order to celebrate the creative powers of poem and world. Flame and Shadow is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

Harriet has always prided herself on being the perfect Victorian woman, but her ideals are challenged when she falls in love with an unavailable man. First published in 1922, Life and Death of Harriet Frean by May Sinclair is a Victorian romantic drama follows the life and downfall of a woman who defined herself solely on society's expectations.

As Britain prepares for war, an army recruiter reaches the New Zealand homestead of Gordon and Robert Hyde, successful sheep farmers. Despite his patriotic inclinations, Gordon, unable to conceal his limp, is rejected from military service. Emasculated and distraught, he begins writing up a plan for an international super-parliament. Conquest: Or, A Piece of Jade is a play by Marie Stopes.

Lady Susan Vernon has arrived at the country house of Charles and Catherine Vernon, her brother- and sister-in-law. Known to many as an unconventional woman, Lady Susan uses her charm and beauty to her own advantage, and always to the detriment of unsuspecting men. When her daughter Frederica arrives, disrupting Lady Susan's endeavors, the complex play of romantic, familial, and purely selfish interests that ensues threatens the moral and social foundations of English aristocratic life.

Two boys bored of provincial life ask storyteller Sam Lawson to spin them some yarns. In "The Ghost in the Mill," Cap'n Eb Sawin gets stuck in a heavy snowstorm. In desperate need of shelter, he heads for the nearby mill to spend a strange night with old Cack. Oldtown Fireside Stories is a children's story collection by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Through the thoughtful narration of her cousin, an intelligent young woman named Phillis who doesn't seem to fit in, comes of age during the Industrial Revolution. Set on a farm in Northern England during the 19th century, Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell is a sentimental drama that follows a young woman as she navigates love and adulthood during the rise of industrialization.

After the tragic death of his mother, Gregory is left to be raised by his stepfather, who finds him unworthy compared to his younger brother. Written by the prolific and legendary author, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Half-Brothers is a short work of fiction that explores themes of love, sacrifice, and jealousy as it follows the life of two brothers.

In eighteenth century Paris, status is everything. Anadea, though poor, has used her family's noble status to secure a marriage to a wealthy cavalier. One night, she meets the roguish Count Blessure, who causes her to question everything. Witty and tragic, The Fatal Secret: Or, Constancy in Distress is a story of identity and desire by Eliza Haywood.

Youth, beauty, a vast inheritance-Miranda and her sister Althea seem to have everything they could ever want. When Miranda marries the rakish Clitander, she does so for love, assuming his motives are honorable. Soon, he shows his true colors. Witty and tragic, The Mercenary Lover is a story of identity and desire by Eliza Haywood.

Disguised as a prostitute, a maid, a widow, and an anonymous lover, one woman carries out four heated affairs-with one man. Although her experiment begins as a matter of curiosity, the narrator soon finds it difficult to separate truth from fiction. Witty and tragic, Fantomina: Or, Love in a Maze is a story of identity and desire by Eliza Haywood.

The titular character of Ethan Frome, the novella by Edith Wharton, is a ruin of a man. For twenty-four years Frome has held a secret: he loved not his waspish wife Zeena, but her cousin and nursemaid Mattie. Now aged, Frome is hired by a newcomer to desolate Starkfield, and the tragic twist of Frome's desire is set to be revealed.

Separated from his love and sold into slavery, Oroonoko, an African prince, risks everything to take back his freedom. Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave is a work of short, historical fiction written by the prolific and pioneer writer, Aphra Behn. Presented in both third- and first-person point of view, Oroonoko: or The Royal Slave follows the life, love, enslavement, and rebellion of Oroonoko.

"How can you plead so earnestly for men / Who fight their own fight with a bloody hand; / [...] and then / Forget the women of your native land?" The poet, a committed suffragist, expresses her indignation to the highest power in the land-the President himself. Are Women People? is a collection of poems by Alice Duer Miller.

"O Liberty, how many men there are / [...] / Invoking you as a goddess and as star..." The poet, a committed suffragist, exposes the hypocrisy of men who praise and feminize liberty while being the first to call the police on women demanding their own chance at liberty. Women Are People! is a collection of poems by Alice Duer Miller.

A teenager is seduced by a charming solider who abandons her in a foreign country. Charlotte Temple, by Susanna Rowson, is a tragic story about a young girl left to fend for herself in America. The book was originally published in England in 1791 and the U.S. in 1794.

Seduced by a handsome English soldier, Charlotte abandons everything she has known to travel to America. When they get there, he loses interest in the young girl, leaving her to fend for herself in New York City. When she succumbs to illness and poverty, she leaves a young daughter behind. Lucy Temple is a novel by Susanna Rowson.

¿Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn / The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. / This is the funeral pyre and Troy is dead¿¿ Voicing the thoughts of Helen, a woman blamed throughout history for the violence of men, Teasdale explores her guilt and legendary beauty. Helen of Troy and Other Poems is a poetry collection by Sara Teasdale.

Syrena Tricksy has one dream and one dream only: to raise herself from her working-class roots and become an English noblewoman. Despite her beauty, charm, and wit, her best laid plans go frequently awry. Written in response to Samuel Richardson¿s Pamela; Or, Virtue Rewarded, Eliza Haywood¿s The Anti-Pamela: Or, Feign'd Innocence Detected is a story of identity and desire.