Initial Studies in American Letters 1891. Initial Studies in American Letters is a companion piece to Beers's historical sketch of English literature entitled From Chaucer to Tennyson. Though meant to be mainly a history of American belles-lettres, it does make some mention of historical and political writings, but hardly any of philosophical, scientific and technical works and is laid out in chronological order. Contents: The Colonial Period, 1607-1765; The Revolutionary Period, 1765-1815; The Era of National Expansion, 1815-1837; The Concord Writers, 1837-1861; The Cambridge Scholars, 1837-1861; Literature in the Cities, 1837-1861; and Literature Since 1861. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Stage Fright During her maternity leave, Cambridge professor Cassandra James gets involved in a production of East Lynne and soon discovers that there is as much drama behind the scenes as there is on stage. Tension escalates, and the crisis point is reached when the leading lady, Melissa, disappears right before the opening night. Cassandra suspects it is more than just stage fright, for Melissa has left behind her six-month-old daughter.< P>Available only in Mystery 4 & 5.
The Course of the Heart Never before published in the United States, this disturbing tale by M. John Harrison was named the #1 weird fiction novel of all-time by The U.K. Guardian. Three undergraduates perform an occult ritual in a Cambridge field. Years later, the experience continues to haunt them thanks to vicious shared hallucinations.
The Unpardonable Heresy of Nefertiti Why was Tutankhamen murdered? What happened to the body of Nefertiti? Who tried to erase all traces of Akhenaten? Why does the biblical story of Moses never appear in Egyptian records? These questions have been shrouded in mystery over three millennia. Then a Cambridge lecturer stumbles on a papyrus among abandoned material at the British Museum, suggesting that a previously unknown pharaoh may have lived in ancient Egypt, his tomb awaiting discovery. He decides to go to Egypt and persuades his engineer girlfriend to go along to help in surveying. There, they find that someone else is trying to get to the tomb and its treasure. After many adventures, they are convinced that a new pharaoh did indeed live in those turbulent times. They also uncover an ancient scandal that could have rocked Egypt to its foundations if it hadn't been suppressed by power-hungry people far more ruthless than any modern dictator.
