Product Description: THE Edict of Nantes was revoked by Louis XIV about the year 1684. The well known consequence was that 500,000 French Protestants left their country to look after settlements among other nations, and in other parts of the world, where they might enjoy the rights of conscience, and the same immunities and prospects for themselves and their families as were common to other subjects or citizens of the governments under which they should live...read more

Product Description: Enjoy a �second helping� from the obstreperous creature that romped so riotously through The Pig Did It with this sequel The Pig Came to Dinner. All of the charming characters of the previous story are also present again: Kitty McCloud and her new husband/former blood enemy Kieran Sweeney have bought an ancient Irish castle with the profits from Kitty's popular revisions of classic novels like Jane Eyre...read more

Product Description: The macabre comedy plays out in sparkling dialogue, including some hilarious speeches that are both incantations of Irish mythology and masterful bits of parody. . . . [Caldwell's] perfect ear for the non sequiturs of real conversation is a constant delight.--Washington Post.

Product Description: After a ten-year silence, Joseph Caldwell returns with a rich novel of immense and resonant scope.

Michael Ruane, an American opera singer who finds fame eluding him in America, begins his life anew in Naples, where he finds life in the streets more vibrant and melodramatic than a staged opera

Noah Dubbins faces a harrowing ordeal, when his wife, Ruth, suffers a severe nervous breakdown

Product Description: NY 1978-lst (stated) Farrar Straus. Fine in fine DJ. Fiction