Sarah Pardee Winchester (1839 - 1922) was a woman of extremes. One of the wealthiest women in Gilded Age America, she was powerless to save her husband and only child. Once a fixture of Connecticut high society, she moved alone 3,000 miles to rural California, spending nearly 40 years as a recluse, building a mansion so bizarre that even today it draws millions of visitors from around the world. In this chapbook, you'll meet the enigmatic woman behind the Winchester Mystery House and explore the key to her complex psyche, the very windows in her world-famous house.
Sarah Pardee Winchester (1839 - 1922) was a woman of extremes. One of the wealthiest women in Gilded Age America, she was powerless to save her husban...
She was the grandest ship ever built. Her maiden voyage was a gathering of the rich and famous like the world had never seen. But when RMS Titanic hit an iceberg on April 14, 1912, one age ended and another began. Read the stories of some of her most famous passengers. Some survived, some didn't. But they all went down in history together.
She was the grandest ship ever built. Her maiden voyage was a gathering of the rich and famous like the world had never seen. But when RMS Titanic hit...
Is the man who wrote 1984 a Mother Goose for the twenty-first century? The works of famed author and essayist George Orwell are filled with bits of verse, both original and collected, from sources as varied as advertisements, popular songs, and rude graffiti scribbled on the walls of London. Brought together here for the first time, and fully and charmingly illustrated, this poetry of the proletariat paints a grim, cynical--and totally unforgettable--portrait of Orwell's world. And ours.
Is the man who wrote 1984 a Mother Goose for the twenty-first century? The works of famed author and essayist George Orwell are filled with bits of ve...
