pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. FATHERS AND SONS Dad, what does 'Mens sana in corpore sano' mean?

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. I have been asked a great many times in the last dozen years if I would not write an East-side novel, and I have sometimes had much difficulty in convincing the publishers that I meant it when I said I would not. Yet the reason is plain: I cannot. I wish I could. There are some facts one can bring home much more easily than otherwise by wrapping them in fiction. But I never could invent even a small par...

WHICH SHALL IT BE? And now that I have them, how am I to decide? That is the question?

This novel features Ogden Ford and his mother Nesta. Nesta has remarried, to the hen-pecked, baseball-loving millionaire Mr. Peter Pett, and Ogden remains spoiled and obnoxious. Charismatic Jimmy Crocker, Nesta's nephew and a reforming playboy, is called upon to assist in the kidnapping of Ogden, amongst much confusion involving impostors, crooks, detectives, butlers, and aunts - all in the name of romance of course.

A Daughter of the Land (1918) by Gene Stratton Porter is, above all, a love song of a woman and the land from which she sprung.

Struwwelpeter (1845) (or Shockheaded Peter) is a German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first story provides the title of the whole book.Hoffmann wrote Struwwelpeter in reaction to the lack of good children's books. Intending to buy a picture book as a Christmas present for his three...

Andy Grant’s Pluck: When his father can no longer afford to pay for his education, young Andy experiences both good and bad fortune as he tries to make his way in the world. Accused of a theft of jewelry he did not commit, Andy nonetheless loses his first job in New York City. But, believed in by a wealthy real estate mogul, Andy gets another job, learns the business, and raises enough money to pay off the mortgage on his father's farm before foreclosure.

A teenager whose parents have separated tries to adapt to life at a boarding school and make a fresh start in a strange new placeAfter her mother runs off with her much-younger boyfriend, fourteen-year-old Flanders is shipped off to a boarding school in Virginia. On the train, she meets Carolyn Cardmaker, a preacher's daughter who will become her best friend. She also meets Ernestine Blue.Miss Blue is Flanders's faculty advisor at the Charles School, where ea...

May and Annie are sisters living on the Isle of Wight at the end of the nineteenth century, but they couldn't be more different. May is a great reader while Annie is "word blind" or dyslexic. After their mother dies these Victorian girls are forced to pool their skills in order to understand the gaps in their family history. An encounter with a mysterious uncle in London puts Annie in charge for a change, and leads to a surprising reconciliation.Includes an appendix with a reader's ...

Annie F. Johnston's trilogy, 'Mildred's Inheritance; Just Her Way; Ann's Own Way,' intricately weaves narratives of young women's coming-of-age experiences in the late 19th century. The prose, characterized by its clear, engaging style, encapsulates an era marked by societal expectations and personal aspirations. Through the lives of strong female protagonists, Johnston explores themes of independence, moral integrity, and the quest for identity in a rapidly changing society. The intertext...