"This new edition replaces Nikolaus Pevsner's 'South and West Somerset' of 1958"--P. xvi.
The story of one woman's unflagging efforts to recover the history of her ancestors, slaves who had lived and worked at Somerset Place plantation.
Cornelia, eleven-years-old and lonely, learns about language and life from an elderly new neighbor who has many stories to share about the fabulous adventures she and her sisters had while traveling around the world. Reprint.
This third volume of Maugham’s stories, introduced and selected by the author himself, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in WWI.
With its location astride two major routes between New York and Philadelphia, it is little wonder that Somerset County became the "Crossroads of the Revolution.
These Somerset tales, newly collected or retold with an eye and an ear to the land and waters that shaped them, reflect our growing interest in the natural landscape.
An unforgettable story of friendship and adventure that takes readers around the world and back again, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters is a dazzling first novel by Lesley M. M. Blume. From the Hardcover edition.
The story-taking its title from Spinoza's Ethics: "Of human bondage, or the strength of the emotions"-follows Philip Carey in his search for freedom from the strict, oppressive Christian upbringing he suffered as an orphan in an English ...
Set against a panoramic backdrop, Roses is a heartbreaking love story of sex, scandal and seduction. It covers 100 years and three generations of Texans.
When Somerset County, named in honor of Lord Baltimore's sister Lady Mary Somerset, was first established by the Colony of Maryland in 1666, it encompassed more than 16,000 square miles on the Eastern Shore, including what are today's ...
He receives a call from an Englishwoman married to a Chinese — formerly t Miss Lambert , now t Mrs . Yu . She discovers that t Mr . Yu , her husband , keeps more than one wife , but she would rather continue the arrangement of living ...