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This classic bestselling novel about a man who encounters a woman whose power to destroy is as strong as her power to love evokes Hemingway in its naturalistic portrayal of elemental forces in both nature and humanity. Ellen's beauty was radiant, and Harland had been so struck with her personality and the strength of her character that he knew he could never leave her. When he found that she returned his adoration, he could marry her with joy, bothered just momentarily by a strange premonition. It was only later, when the premonition became a horrifying reality, that he realized the glowing...

Ben Ames Williams (1889 -1953) was an American writer who published over thirty novels, including All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919), The Strange Woman (1945), House Divided (1947), Leave Her to Heaven (1944), and Come Spring (1940). All the Brothers Were Valiant was his first novel and has been adapted too film three times. Joel Shore was appointed captain of the whaling ship following his brother's apparent demise when captain of the same ship. He decides to make his first cruise as captain to the very location where his brother had last been seen in the Gilbert Islands. He hoped to...