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Exuberant life, freshness, sureness of touch made 'O Genteel Lady!' an outstanding novel of 1926, a best seller, a favorite of critics, the 'Book of the Month' for that June. The author's second book is utterly dissimilar, and yet as engaging and vigorous, with even greater power and more masterly technique.

The theme is unique. A child is picked up by an English skipper one day in Brittany just after her parents have been burned as witches. He adopts her and takes her with him to Salem in the New World. There she grows to womanhood haunted by the memory of her parents' tragedy, harassed by the thought that perhaps her soul has already been signed away to the devil. In the faith of the Puritans, luridly lighted by hell-fire, is rich soil for her fears. How she comes to think herself a witch, how she mistakes a mortal man for a demon, and how she prefers this demon to a deacon's son, and how through all the adversities of loneliness, mortal danger, and a terrifying love she finds her true happiness and consolation in her allegiance to Satan, is recorded in this remarkable novel.

The Wanderer By Alain-Fournier

'This lovely book is my favorite of all French novels.'—Anne Douglas Sedgwick.

Toilers of the Hills By Vardis Fisher

A magnificent epic of the Idaho hills, rich in substance, racy in style.

Black Sadie By T. Bowyer Campbell

An elemental story of a negro girl who becomes a famous New York dancer.

The Tale of Genji By Lady Murasaki

Part IV: Blue Trousers

Here is completed 'one of the masterpieces of the world's literature.'

That Magic Fire By Sylvia Bates

The eternal triangle revivified in this story of extraordinary beauty and intensity.

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A search for death—the story of a great love.

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The story of old Jaffrey Boone and his three turbulent children.