Excerpt from Daireen, Vol. 2 of 2 I AM so glad to be beside some one who can tell me all I want to know, ' said Lottie, looking up to Colonel Gerald's bronzed face when Mrs. Crawford and Markham had walked on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Daireen, Vol. 1 of 2 'Yes, my sonn, ye've forgotten the blood of yer anshint soires. Ye for-git, my sonn, that ye're th' offspring of the MacDermots and the O'Dermots, kings of Munster in the days whin there was kings, and whin the Geralds was walkin' about in blue paint in the woods of the adjacent bar-barious island of Britain. Think of that, my sonn.' ' The Geralds have been at Suanmara for four hundred years, ' said Standish quickly and in the tone of one resenting an aspersion. 'Four hunderd years!' cried The Mac-Dermot scornfully. 'Fourhundcrd years! What's four hunderd years in the existence of a fam'ly?' The MacDermot felt that this was the exact instant for him to rise grandly to his feet, so once more he made the essay, but without a satisfactory result. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Originally published anonymously, it was later revealed that this classic work of political fiction was penned by Henry Brooks Adams, the renowned essayist and journalist best known for the autobiography The Education of Henry Adams. Though fictionalized, Democracy: An American Novel offers a gripping account of the vagaries and vicissitudes of political power that still rings true more than a century after it was first published.

To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.

Running Away Doesn't Always Remove the Problem “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.” - Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands This second novel of Conrad details the undoing of Peter Willems, a disreputable, immoral man who, on the run from a scandal in Makassar, finds refuge in a hidden native village, only to betray his benefactors over lust for the tribal chief's daughter.