Browsing English and Linguistics by Research Type "Book"

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  • Alone in the World 

    Colclough, Mary Ann
    Orphaned and alone, the young governess Annie Barrington sail to New Zealand in search of her lost brother. In Auckland, she finds instead a man who offers her happiness, but whose past hides a dark crime. Also, trying to ...

  • Lenore Divine 

    Devanny, Jean
    Lenore Divine follows the romantic and political adventures of the title character and her friend Lafe Osgood. Will Lenore find happiness with dissolute Holly Virtue or with Waikato farmer Kowhatu Ngatoro? Can Lafe redeem ...

  • The Merry Marauders 

    Rees, Arthur J.
    The Merry Marauders (1913) recounts the humorous misadventures of an accident-prone theatre company, bringing to life the itinerant theatrical world and its struggles with the temperance movement and frontier environment. ...

  • Morganeering 

    Bickerton, A. W.
    Morganeering is a satire on capitalism in the era of the "Robber Barons" like John Rockefeller, Henry Ford and John Pierpont Morgan. Their success at consolidating industries is taken to extremes by the novel's capitalist ...

  • The Passionate Puritan 

    Mander, Jane
    Set in 1912, The Passionate Puritan follows young teacher Sidney Carey to an isolated kauri-milling community in the far north. She discovers romance there, but will she be able to seize it, or will puritanical conventions ...

  • Samuel Richardson of London, Printer: A Study of his Printing Based on Ornament Use and Business Accounts 

    Maslen, K. I. D. (Keith Ian Desmond)

  • Tom Hungerford: A Story of the Early Days of the Otago Goldfields 

    Baldwin, William; Sullivan, Jim
    Tom Hungerford was inspired by the Otago gold rush of 1861, but is practically unknown as it was published only as a serial in the Tuapeka Times. The author, William Baldwin, a larger-than-life figure who was a runholder, ...

  • The Two Lawyers 

    Southan, W.M.
    Southan's novel is set in the fledgling New Zealand town of Timaru and the boisterous goldfields of 1860's Victoria. One lawyer, Frank Perry, is a pillar of manly rectitude, while the other, John Hobart, is a dastardly ...