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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turne...

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...s Note This is a work of fiction. While historical persons do appear within the text, all events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century,... ...l events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century, and for nearly the first half of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vot... ...roper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision of Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. My vision is an amalgam of persons known to a... ...egs and the ribbon. Again I glared at the men, stalking the circle around my winded, sweating horse. I tapped my riding crop against my green-topped... ...ater boys had already brought a hot tub to my room. I undressed and settled into the bath, using rose-scented soap that I purchased in a small shop ... ...ls and tiled floors. There were fireplaces for warmth in winter, and large windows to allow the breezes in during the summer. In the back area of ... ...ipperies. As other young ladies around me married, I was still single well into my twenties. I had no doubt that I would be the much-joked about o... ...rld.” I looked at him sidelong, with just a hint of a smile. Philippe burst into laughter then. “Are all of the women in Baincthuin like you?” “I su... ...d. I removed the bridle and knew at once that Francois had not seen to his tacking; he would never have put a gag bit on Pierrot. I was furious bu...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s...

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...FROM THE COVER OF SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely ... ...g fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, and faith of this remarkable woman whose intimat... ...f this remarkable woman whose intimate journal takes us back to 642 B.C. The book includes a Foreword by the well-known Sappho scholar and transla... ... and what can be surmised about the person behind each voice, and he wove into each journal passages from their writings and the substance of the te... ...ay, 1965. For clarity, the calendar used by Sappho has been translated into our modern calendar. SAPPHO’S JOURN... ... JOURNAL 7 I watched an anchor plunge slowly and saw the sail topple into the water and heard a man cry some name. Shouts went up. A chorus b... ...rs came to his eyes. Silently, he wept. And I drew him to me. I heard the wind cross over his house. Voices shuffled below us in the courtyard, the ... ...eated, too complex. It was not a subject to pursue on the beach, with the wind carrying our words and the breakers drown- ing them. This was, I prefe... ...g and since the ocean lay incredibly calm, we located the wreck easily by tacking in circles. Kelp had snared the masts—giant legs of brown. Her mas...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...e of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the ... ...ime into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham ... ... and what can be surmised about the person behind each voice, and he wove into each journal passages from their writings and the substance of the te... ...ay, 1965. For clarity, the calendar used by Sappho has been translated into our modern calendar. SAPPHO’S JOURNAL ... ...rs came to his eyes. Silently, he wept. And I drew him to me. I heard the wind cross over his house. Voices shuffled below us in the courtyard, the ... ...g and since the ocean lay incredibly calm, we located the wreck easily by tacking in circles. Kelp had snared the masts—giant legs of brown. Her mas... ...of our Tower; the book I am writing is for Prince Frederick, a slow, slow tacking about; yet you, who respect writing, realize the salvation. Tell m...

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.... FILMER ....................................................................................................................................... 4 2. THE MAGIC SHOP................................................................................................................... 21 3. THE VALLEY OF SPIDERS.......................................................................

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...PUBLICATION Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...m this theoretical advantage, that they could go through the air against a wind, a necessary condition if aerial navigation was to have any practical ... ...licated “musculature” he wove about them, were withdrawn almost completely into the frame; and he built the large framework which these balloons susta... ...to a considerable height, might then contract its balloons and let the air into its frame, and by an adjustment of its weights slide down the air in a... ...t be. At his touch, as it were, Filmer’s long-pent investigations exploded into fame. He instantly and most magnificently was a Boom. One turns over t... ...st to the clear blue sky of a sunny, cloudless day. He watched it from the window of his bedroom in the new-built wing of Banghurst’s Tudor house. And... ...drinking his whisky, and he was up in his favourite corner by the cornice, tacking a T urkey carpet to the ceiling, when the idea struck me. “By Jove,...