A unique concept frames Richard Foreman's ';Wilful Misunderstandings', a collection of short stories from Lepus Books. In each of these thirty-four tales the author takes a word, phrase or saying, twisting it into a new meaning, and by extension a new reality. The stories that emerge extend across a diverse stylistic range through sci-fi, adventure, crime, romance, horror, folk tale and magic realism. The many worlds of ';Wilful Misunderstandings' can be rampantly surrealistic at times, not so very different from our own at others. A ';parapet' becomes a beast assigned as a familiar to would-be mystics. If you go out and ';stretch your legs' you come home taller. ';Accolade' is a drink that gives you a pat on the back. But in each tale, readers will meet engaging characters in intriguing situations - some humorous, some perilous, some with deep emotional resonance.

The moment he saw her at the assembly in Meryton, he knew he loved her. WHEN FITZWILLIAM DARCY MEETS ELIZABETH BENNET in the fateful autumn of 1811, their mutual infatuation is immediate and undeniable. Within months, they are married and spend a blissful winter at Pemberley, falling more deeply in love with each other than either might have imagined possible. But spring in London proves more challenging to them. Accident and artifice join to devastating effect for the young couple, destroying their felicity and creating an outcome neither might have imagined. TWO YEARS LATER, happenstance reunites them. Sorrow and anger have built walls between them but can the love they once shared remains. Will it be enough to conquer the sins of the past? Is the love they still hold within them strong enough to prevail over the anger and mistrust that tore them apart?

Sometimes love waits a world away, and happiness must be fought for. In the year 1811, impassable barriers separate the world of carriages, battles and bonnets from the world of witches, goblins and fae. Until the Solstice comes. Then the walls fall, and anyone may pass out of England and into Aylfenhame… Three courageous heroines will take that step. Sophy Landon, impoverished and alone; Isabel Ellerby, trapped by the prospect of an unwelcome marriage; and Bessie Bell, a mistreated housemaid. But courage brings its own rewards. Curses, betrayals and a dark history may wait in the realm of the fae, but so do adventure, and magic, and dreams. And for those with heart enough, true love. These are stories of escape, of freedom, of joy snatched from the jaws of despair. They're stories of the road to happiness, winding though it may be. Of a brightness in the sky on the darkest of days, and above all: of love, and its power to change everything. This compendium contains three blissful novels of love, magic and adventure: Miss Landon and Aubranael, Miss Ellerby and the Ferryman, and Bessie Bell and the Goblin King.

The argument laid out in this book discusses and interprets the work of Hobbes in relation to religion. It compares a traditional interpretation of Hobbes where Hobbes’ use of conventional terminology when talking about natural law is seen as ironic or merely convenient despite an atheist viewpoint, with the view that Hobbes’ morality is truly traditional and Christian. The book considers other thinkers of the age in tandem with Hobbes and discusses in detail his theology inspired by corporeal mechanics. The position is that there are significant senses in which Hobbes can be said to be a traditional natural law theorist.

This unique coming of age collection includes:_x000D_ Elsie Dinsmore Series_x000D_ Elsie Dinsmore_x000D_ Elsie's Holidays at Roselands_x000D_ Elsie's Girlhood_x000D_ Elsie's Womanhood_x000D_ Elsie's Motherhood_x000D_ Elsie's Children _x000D_ Elsie's Widowhood_x000D_ Grandmother Elsie_x000D_ Elsie's New Relations_x000D_ Elsie at Nantucket_x000D_ Two Elsies_x000D_ Elsie's Kith and Kin_x000D_ Elsie's Friends at Woodburn_x000D_ Christmas with Grandma Elsie_x000D_ Elsie and the Raymonds_x000D_ Elsie Yachting with the Raymonds_x000D_ Elsie's Vacation_x000D_ Elsie at Viamede_x000D_ Elsie at Ion_x000D_ Elsie at the World's Fair_x000D_ Elsie's Journey on Inland Waters_x000D_ Elsie at Home_x000D_ Elsie on the Hudson_x000D_ Elsie in the South_x000D_ Elsie's Young Folks in Peace and War_x000D_ Elsie's Winter Trip_x000D_ Elsie and Her Loved Ones_x000D_ Elsie and Her Namesakes_x000D_ Mildred Keith Series_x000D_ Mildred Keith_x000D_ Mildred at Roselands_x000D_ Mildred and Elsie_x000D_ Mildred's Married Life, and a Winter with Elsie Dinsmore_x000D_ Mildred at Home: With Something About Her Relatives and Friends_x000D_ Mildred's Boys and Girls_x000D_ Mildred's New Daughter_x000D_ Other Novels_x000D_ Edith's Sacrifice_x000D_ Ella Clinton_x000D_ Signing the Contract and What it Cost_x000D_ The Thorn in the Nest_x000D_ The Tragedy of Wild River Valley_x000D_ Martha Finley (1828-1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well-known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years.

Gender, family and sexual relations defined human slavery from its classical origins in Europe to the rise and fall of race-based slavery in the Americas. Gender, Mastery and Slavery is one of the first books to explore the importance of men and women to slaveholding across these eras. Foster argues that at the heart of the successive European institutions of slavery at home and in the New World was the volatile question of women's ability to exert mastery. Facing the challenge to play the 'good mother' in public and private, free women from Rome to Muslim North Africa, to the indigenous tribes of North America, to the antebellum plantations of the southern United States found themselves having to economically manage slaves, servants and captives. At the same time, they had to protect their reputations from various forms of attack and themselves from vilification on a number of fronts. With the recurrent cultural wars over the maternal role within slavery touching the worlds of politics, warfare, religion, and colonial and imperial rivalries, this lively comparative survey is essential reading for anyone studying, or simply interested in, this key topic in global and gender history.