First published in a London weekly in 1878, it was also published in book form in America in that same year. It is the story of Mrs. Miles, the Lady of Launay, a widow who martyrly denies herself the delights of money and society. The idea of duty is so important that she would turn her son out of her house and force her ward, Bessy Pryor, to marry a man she cannot love.

The Lady of Launay

Literature & Fiction

Anthony, Trollope

John K. Shannon

Classics

Caledonia Press

Anthony Trollope wrote "Christmas at Thompson Hall" in 1876.  This was the year that saw publication of Mark Twain's "Tom Sawyer"; it was the year Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone; it was also America's Centenary.  In this short tale, Trollope chose to be light and good-humored.  His story turns on a mistaken identity, on several weaknesses - humorously portrayed - of human nature, and finally on a terrible, terribly farcical coincidence.  In Trollope's "Autobiography," published after his death, he said: "A Christmas story, in the proper sense, should be the ebullition of some mind anxious to instil[l] others with a desire for Christmas religious thought, or Christmas festivities - or, better still, with Christmas charity."  It is with the latter, with charity, and forgiveness, and good-humor - and with a marriage(!) that Trollope's story concludes. [From the Preface by John Kingsley Shannon]

Christmas at Thompson Hall: A Mid-Victorian Christmas Tale (Harting Grange Library Series)

Two Heroines of Plumplington

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Switchblade (Issue One)

Liskow, Steve

Kelter, Lawrence

Powell, William Dylan

Wilsky, Jim

Sweeny, Liam

Lang, Preston

Bates, Jack

Richardson, Travis

Cornford, Susan

Brazill, Paul D.

The Jacket is off, and with one thumb jab at the button the blade is out; whitening your throat at the tip, just below the jugular. Switchblade is back for another stab at 12 sharp &amp; deadly hard luck-tales from some authors you may know, and a few you’ve yet to discover. It's coming at you; quicker than the eye can see, the second cut of Switchblade.

Switchblade (Issue Two)

DiChellis, Peter

Boekestein, J. L.

Roland,Charles

Pickup, Renee Asher

Jaramillo, Carmen

White, Rob T.

Erwin, Ashley

Greenberg,Paul

Bailey, S.E.

The third installment of the newest hardboiled/noir anthology, the indie side of the New York Five. Issue Three marks the return of Switchblade veterans Charles Roland, J.L. Boekestein, and Preston Lang. With fiction work from Anthony Award nominee Eric Beetner, as well as short stories and flash from Joe Ricker, Michael Loniewski, Richard Risemberg, Calvin Demmer, Robert Smith, Ehren Baker, Morgan Boyd, and J.D. Graves. Featuring the frenetic poetic prose of Zakariah Johnson.

Switchblade (Switchblade Volume One)

Beetner, Eric

Graves, J.D.

Baker, Ehren

Boyd, Morgan

Risemberg, Richard

Ricker, Joe

Loniewski, Michael

Johnson, Zakariah

This is it: The very first Switchblade Special Issue. Available for a limited time only. This limited edition publication will be retired from mainstream distribution with the arrival of Switchblade Issue Four. An alternate version of Switchblade Issue Three, Switchblade Issue Three Special is its own standalone volume. Featuring J.L. Boekestein’s poem, “Close Contact”, and new short fiction from Scotch Rutherford, and Aussie crime writer A.B. Patterson. As well as edgy hardboiled noir from the likes of Preston Lang, Charles Roland, Eric Beetner, Michael Loniewski, Ehren Baker, J.D. Graves, Richard Risemberg, Calvin Demmer, and Morgan Boyd.

Switchblade: Special Issue (Issue Three)

Demmer, Calvin

Rutherford, Scotch

Patterson, A. B.

Switchblade returns with another lethal dose of outlaw fiction. Rage, retribution, revenge—that’s just the tip of the stiletto. Greed, bloodlust, infamy—the more you read, the deeper the laceration; twisting as it mangles. Featuring 14 choice cuts from Pearce Hansen, Nick Manzolillo, J.D. Graves, Keith Rawson, Max Sheridan, Diana Deverell, Peter DiChellis, Henry Brock, A.B. Patterson, Lisa Douglass, Aaron Majewski, Mike Derochick, Tais Teng, and Jeffrey Burton. Twisted and barbed like your ex; sharp and deadly like the femme fatale you know you can’t resist—Switchblade Issue Four: it ain’t your grandma’s Ellery Queen.

Burton, Jeffrey

Manzolillo, Nick

Hansen, Pearce

Rawson, Keith

Teng, Tais

Deverell, Diana

Majewski, Aaron

Derochick, Michael

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Rachels, David

Cizak, Alec

Merrigan, Court

White, Robb T.

Douglass, Lisa

McGinley, Chris

Friend, Timothy

Sophabmisay, Danny

Andes, Tom

Porn stars, loan sharks, hitmen, pimps, junkies, whores and thieves; losers rolling snake eyes with every toss. 14 psychologically disturbing tales from independent operators making moves outside the five families of traditional publishing…It’s another indie noir star-studded line up. The man behind Ford Fairlane, rock and roll detective—Rex Weiner, has a story in this issue. Tough magazine editor, Rusty Barnes makes his Switchblade debut, along with Jim Thomsen, Aidan Thorn, Mike Payne, John Bosworth, George Garnet, Scot Carpenter and Evelyn Deshane. We also welcome back repeat offenders, E.F. Sweetman, Tais Teng, Danny Sophabmisay, Tom Barlow, and Travis Richardson. Featuring the poetry of William R. Soldan.

Switchblade (Issue Sixx)

Garnet, George

Barlow, Tom

Thomsen, Jim

Weiner, Rex

Thorn, Aidan

Deshane, Evelyn

Bosworth, John

Sweetman, E.F.

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