by Susan King (2003)
An antiquarian for the National Museum, Christina Blackburn has her reasons for disguising her smoldering beauty with a pair of prim spectacles and an icy facade. She posed for a painting that scandalized the Victorian art world --- and it nearly ruined her life. Ever since, she has vowed to suppress her passionate nature and keep her identity a secret. But when the museum sends her on a trip across Scotland, Christina finds herself face-to-face with the same notorious painting --- and its dangerously handsome owner. Sir Aedan Arthur MacBride knows the local legend about the sleeping maiden, of course, but refuses to believe in such a curse. Then he gazes upon this very real maiden's face, and he knows he is utterly doomed .
Longus
Longus's Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century CE), in which an idealized pastoral environment provides the setting as a boy and girl discover their sexuality, is one of the great works of world literature. Xenophon's Anthia and Habrocomes (first century CE) is perhaps the earliest extant novel.
selected and translated by Christopher Stace
"Among the books which afford us an insight into the popular religious thought of the middle ages, none holds a more important place than the Legenda Aurea or Golden Legend. The book was compiled and put into form about the year 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa, who laid under contribution for his purpose the Lives of the Fathers by S. Jerome, the Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, and other books of a like kind; while for the lives of the saints more nearly approaching his own age he appears to have industriously collected such legends as he could meet with, whether in manuscript or handed down by oral tradition."--Prologue.
C. Eric Stoehr
Here is the first book to show the old-time architecture of Colorado's mining camps and towns as they look today--not just the buildings of one town or one style of architecture, but the full array of styles from all over the state. Handsomely illustrated with over 250 recent photographs, this nostalgic portrait of a bygone era can help you plan a trip through Colorado, preserve a vacation memory, or even add Victorian touches to your home.--from the front cover.
Douglass Shand-Tucci
"Originally Published in 1978 and reissued in paperback in 1988, Built in Boston has been hailed as the definitive work on the architectural history of the city and its suburbs. For this revised edition, Douglass Shand-Tucci has written four substantial new chapters, carrying the story of Boston's built environment forward from 1950 to the present. The book is illustrated with over 300 drawings, maps, and photographs, including 9 color plates."--BOOK JACKET.