Books with author Stephen Charles

A story of wholesome home life on an old-fashioned Maine farm in 1865.Charles Asbury Stephens' 1910 volume "When Life was Young at the Old Farm in Maine" contains thirty of the author's inimitable chapters of life on the Old Squire's farm, and describes in detail, the hearty, merry, wholesome home life at the old farm in Maine.When President Lincoln sent out the call for troops at the opening of the Civil War, five stalwart sons of a Maine country '' Squire'' entered the army of the Union.Of the five, not one survived that awful conflict. So it happened that their children, war waifs and orphaned, came back in 1865-6 to live at their grandfather's old farm on Lake Pennesseewassee in Oxford County, Maine.They came from four different states in the Union and two of the children had never even seen their cousins. At the age of 65, the grandfather set himself to till the farm on a larger scale and to renew his lumbering operations. Grandmother, too, was constrained to increase her flock of geese and other poultry and to begin anew the labor of spinning and weaving. About the author: Charles Asbury Stephens (1844 – 1931) was a well-known American writer of short stories and articles; he earned his M.D. from Boston University in 1887.Other works by Stephens include: Fox-hunting (1872) Lynx-hunting (1872) On the Amazons (1872) Left on Labrador (1873) Camping out: as recorded by "Kit" (1873) Off to the geysers (1872) The Best in the World (1880) The Young Moose Hunters (1882) The Knockabout Club Alongshore (1883) The knockabout Club in the woods (1883) The Knockabout club in the tropics (1883) The adventures of six young men in the wilds of Maine and Canada (1884) Living matter: its cycle of growth and decline in animal organisms (1888) Pluri-cellular man: Whence and what is the intellect, or "soul"? (1892) Charles Adams Tales (1896) Long life (1896) The nation's responsibility for its laborers on the Panama Canal (1904) The ark of 1803: a story of Louisiana purchase times (1904) Natural salvation (1905) Pioneer boys afloat on the Mississippi (1910) When Life was Young at the Old Farm in Maine (1912) The Fields are Adventure (1912) A great year of our lives at the old squire's (1912) Julia Sylvester (1912) Immortal life: how it will be achieved (1920) C. A. Stephens Looks at Norway (1920) A busy year at the old squire's (1922) Andros islands (1923) Haps and mishaps at the old farm (1925) Stories of my home folks (1926) Katahdin camps (1928)

Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections--between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense and violence more effectively than any of his contemporaries. The new Oxford World's Classics edition of Oliver Twist is based on the authoritative Clarendon edition, which uses Dickens's revised text of 1846. It includes his preface of 1841 in which he defended himself against hostile criticism, and includes all twenty-four original illustrations by George Cruikshank. Stephen Gill's groundbreaking introduction gives a fascinating new account of the novel. He also provides appendices on Dickens and Cruikshank, on Dickens's Preface and the Newgate Novel Controversy, on Oliver Twist and the New Poor Law, and on thieves' slang.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Posh Thaler Academy, nestled in the leafy Connecticut countryside, is one of New England's most exclusive boarding schools. For scholarship student Jennifer Field, it's a dream come true to be at Thaler. Until the dream turns into a nightmare...Strange shadows flickering acrosss the moonlit campus...a mysterious old building in the woods with a secret lab...a Dean of students whose startling eyes seem to convey unspoken evil. Jennifer is tempted to blame her imagination for her fears. Then she and her boyfriend, Lee, stumble across the body of a Thaler classmate in the woods. A body twisted in agony...from an encounter with something that only looks human...

Green EyesIN A WOLF'S FACE...That's the creepy nightmare Jennifer keeps having—ever since that terrible night when she and her boyfriend, Lee, stumbled upon Thaler Academy's terrifying secret...and almost died because of it. But now evil has been purged from the select Connecticut boarding school. Or has it?What are the strange animal-like creatures moving across the campus at night? What happened to the former Dean at Thaler—and why did he disappear so suddenly? Why is her best friend Monica acting so weirdly? Soon she and Lee realize they are up against something even more horrible than they ever imagined...a dark, alien terror that hungers to destroy them...

WHERE FEAR LURKS—HORROR MAKES ITS HOME…They were out there. Watching. Waiting, in the looming shadows around Thaler Academy, the wolf-like creatures were hiding their terrible secret from the world. A student was dead, a teacher was missing…and Jennifer Field was terrified. She and her friends were the only ones who knew the awful truth. For only miles away from the school, beyond the murky waters of a legendary lake called Witch’s Eye, the alien horror had set up its unearthly home—killing trees and plants, and perhaps, anyone who knew too much.

THE FINAL BATTLEThe aliens have been defeated. The nightmare is over. Or so Jennifer thinks. Lurking in the shadows of Thaler Academy, the last surviving creature plots its vengeance in blood.One by one, her friends are stalked by the wolf-like beast. And one by one, they are rendered helpless. Now, Jennifer is alone. Can she put an end to the alien terror?

JENNIFER IS FIGHTING A BATTLEFOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET.The eerie night cloaks Thaler Academy in silent shadows. Jennifer and her friends know that something is out there. It is infinitely dangerous and it comes from a distant world; intending to destroy all that lives on the planet. Two of Jennifer’s friends have been kidnapped—dragged down into the Alien laboratories on the edge of the lake known as the Witch’s Eye. And Now, Jennifer realizes there is only one way to stop the relentless terror of the hideous wolf-like creatures:Enter their lair and destroy them. . .or die. . .

TRAPPED LIKE A FLY —IN A WEB OF MOUNTING TERRORThe aliens were taking over. At first, Jennifer thought the horrible menace was confined to posh Thaler Academy. But now, she and her friends were beginning to realize that no one could be trusted. Not even the police.The terror was growing. The hideous creatures that roamed the school grounds assumed human forms. And worse yet, the unearthly beasts knew about Jennifer and her plan to expose them. Could she stop the escalating nightmare before the aliens found the key to Earth’s ultimate destruction?

Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the lady's nature, John Harmon fakes his own death and takes on a new identity. As the complexities of the deceit are revealed, Dickens gives us his most profoundly cynical, yet brilliantly funny, insight into the corruption of wealth on human nature. 40 illustrations.