books about: nonsuch     books:       The Spy (Nonsuch Classics)1 review James Fenimore Cooper Nonsuch Publishing, 2005 Major John André was recently hung for spying The is here adventure enough and romance for all. A visit home to see the family turns bad for a British Captain of Infantry. A peddler ans a gentleman stranger are what the plot turns on. Here are "Cowboys" as mounted British soldiers before the modern cowboy was thought of. Here are spies and daring escapes in the middle of raging war. All this takes in rural 1780's New York. It isn't ...             Before Sunday: The Life Stories of the Bloody Sunday Victims2 reviews Jennifer Faus Nonsuch Publishing, 2008 Finally, Somebody Has Helped To Tell The Victims' Stories Jennifer Faus has done something which, up to this time very few people, if any, have attempted to do: to tell the stories of the victims of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland. The stories of these people are both heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same time as family members and friends talk about the loved ones they lost because they decided to join in a protest for equal rights. ...             The Nonsuch Lure5 reviews Mary Luke Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1976 Nonsuch Lure Nonsuch is a riveting read, full of intrigue and captivating emotion. The historical aspects of the story are also fascinating in their detail. It makes you question how far you would go to find your own true love. If you like books with an "immortal beloved" feel, try The Beckoning Ghost by Catherine Kohman. It's also one of my favorites. I devoutly wish Ms. Kohman and Ms. Luke would both ...             The Apple Tree: Tales from the Caravan, the Assembled Collection (Nonsuch Classics)1 review John Galsworthy Nonsuch Publishing, 2005 One Story Sells This Book This book is worth acquiring if only to read The Apple Tree, a heart-hammeringly tragic romantic story that will lurk in the back of your mind ever after. Poor Megan David -- you must know that someone like her truly existed, and Galsworthy merely happened to be the writer whose imagination brought the tale to us all.             The Phantom Ship (Nonsuch Classics)6 reviews Captain Marryat Nonsuch Publishing, 2006 The Flying Dutchman Once upon a time, somewhere in the middle of the XVII century, Mynheer Captain Vanderdecken defied God and brought a curse of the Heavens on himself and his crew, to sail in doom and suffering until the Day of Judgment, bringing despair and death to encountered seamen, unless the holy relic is offered to him, for that is the only chance of forgiveness for Captain Vanderdecken. The phantom ship ...             Dr Thorne (Nonsuch Classics)11 reviews Anthony Trollope Nonsuch Publishing, 2006 Taking an idiom literally When we ask someone if they are engaged, we are asking if they have made with their partner an explicit and reciprocal promise to enter marriage. When Mary Thorne is asked the question, she takes it literally and means something wholly different. Mary Thorne is the niece and adopted daughter of the eponymous main character of the novel, Doctor Thorne. (If you'll permit an aside before ...             Domestic Manners of the Americans (Nonsuch Classics)1 review Fanny Trollope, John by Fanny Trollope Nonsuch Publishing, 2007 Fox-hunting highjinks Robert Smith Surtees devoted his life basically to two things: fox hunting and novel writing, actually combining both into a single pursuit. He wrote a number of delightful novels centering around the fox-hunting society in and about Durham, England; this was his last book, published posthumously, and among his best. Facey Romford is a confidence trickster who passes himself off as his wealthy ...             The Life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Civil Engineer1 review Isambard Brunel Nonsuch Publishing, 2005 Brilliant Engineer Civil Engineer,always conjures up buildings. If that is what you want, it's not here. But an Engineer, Bridges, Railway Systems and the like, then this is the book. The world could do with a new "Brunel." Anything I can say, to compliment this great man,and his works, would only belittle the memory.             Phoebe, Junior (Nonsuch Classics) Margaret Oliphant Nonsuch Publishing, 2006 Phoebe, Junior , the last of the tales that made up the Chronicles of Carlingford, brought to a close one of British literature?s best-loved series. First published in BLACKWOOD?S MAGAZINE, a literary institution in its day, this series included Miss Marjoribanks (1866) in its number, the work for which the author is perhaps best remembered. Phoebe, Junior , however, has long been regarded as a wonderful tale in its own right, a hidden ...             Widow Barnaby (Nonsuch Classics) Frances Trollope Nonsuch Publishing, 2007             Not While I Have Ammo: A History of Connie Mackey1 review Jim Corbett Nonsuch Publishing, 2008 Preview During the Irish Civil War between the 15th and the 20th July 1922, the Republican-held Strand Barracks in Limerick, on what is now Clancy's Strand, came under constant ferocious attacks from Free State troops. They attacked the barracks repeatedly with armoured cars, and a non stop bombardment of sniper, machine gun and mortar fire. All attempts to capture the barracks were resisted fiercely by ...             Among the Ibos of Nigeria (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers) G.T. Basden Nonsuch Publishing, 2006 Among the Ibos of Nigeria is the work of the British missionary George Basden. He lived with the Ibos for many years, recording the complexities of their culture at all stages in life, from childhood to the intricate rituals surrounding death, for his white European audience. He confesses in his introduction that it is a "practical impossibility for a European to comprehend fully the subtleties of the native character," even after years in ...             Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions P.L. Simmonds Nonsuch Publishing, 2005 "That Sir John Franklin, now nearly six years absent, is alive, we dare not affirm; but that his ships should be so utterly annihilated that no trace of them can be discovered... is a most extraordinary circumstance." On May 18, 1845 Sir John Franklin set sail with a crew of 134 men on two ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, in an attempt to find the Northwest Passage. The ships were last seen on 26 July by an Arctic whaler off the entrance ...             My Secret Life: The Sex Diaries of a Victorian Gentleman: Early Memories, Vol I Walter Nonsuch Publishing, 2007 Although a fictional biography, Early Memories  provides an insight into the grim world of Victorian prostitution. Colored by fantasy and sexual debauchery, this graphic account has long been hailed as a valuable insight into the reality of those times. My Secret Life was first printed in a private edition of 11 volumes, beginning around 1888. Later attempts to publish the work commercially resulted in it being repeatedly banned as obscene ...             Father & Son: A Study of Two Temperaments (Nonsuch Classics) Edmund Gosse Nonsuch Publishing, 2005 Father and Son is the memoir of the childhood and young adulthood of the author Edmund Gosse, the "Son" of the title. Both his parents were members of the religious sect the "Plymouth Brethren" and it was in an atmosphere of strict adherence to the teaching of this religion that Edmund grew up. From an early age he was taught that imagination was a sin, was told stories of missionaries rather than fairytales and had no childhood companions. Yet ...             The Warden (Nonsuch Classics) Anthony Trollope Nonsuch Publishing, 2006 The first of Trollope?s Barchester series, The Warden represents the beginning of one of the most enduring collections of British fiction. It is, however, an immensely compelling story in its own right, told with the author?s usual style and an eye for human weakness. Both a love story and a critique of the social mores of the time, the tale of Revd Harding, the Warden of the title, is a piece of literature that will perhaps provoke as much as ...             Ralph the Heir (Nonsuch Classics)1 review Anthony Trollope Nonsuch Publishing, 2007 Trollope shines as portraitist, moralist, amiable cynic Ralph The Heir, written late in Antony Trollope's life, is not as well known as his Palliser or Barchester novels, and this is a great shame. To my mind his talents are on display here in all their mature glory; his penetrating observation of human motive and weakness, combined with a raucous, convaluted storyline and a wicked sense of humor. Trollope knows people through and through, and ...             The Campaign of Trafalgar1 review Sir Julian Corbett Nonsuch Publishing, 2005 superb history of the campaign and its background Much more than a naval history, this work embeds the Trafalgar campaign in the political and military events of the Napoleonic wars. There are brilliant asides on everything from when and how commanders should disobey orders, up to grand strategy for coalition building. If you have read any of Winston Churchill's histories, the tone is very similar. 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