English butlers are a league of their own. More prude than their masters and more steeped in conventions of the English customs, they can get a shock of their lives, if only they could come to America. Something similar happens to our hero, Ruggles, who is staked by his owner in a game of cards and handed over to an American couple. What happens next is a riot of colors and experiences. So, come along on this comedy of situations with our hero who is trying to figure out the new country and its new customs and that too with a mistaken identity! The story has been adapted into two successful...
English butlers are a league of their own. More prude than their masters and more steeped in conventions of the English customs, they can get a shock ...
Harry Leon Wilson's "The Seeker" is a book written almost as a play. Largely following a Presbyterian clergyman and his family, the book explores life in the 1904's America. Wilson was a writer who helped coin the term "flapper" in his later work, making this wordsmith one who deserves the audience he is sure to get for years to come.
Harry Leon Wilson's "The Seeker" is a book written almost as a play. Largely following a Presbyterian clergyman and his family, the book explores life...
Merton of the Movies' is a comic novel by Harry Leon Wilson. The story follows small-town bumpkin Merton Gill who fantasizes about joining the glamorous world of silent films, and takes a correspondence school course in acting. He travels to Hollywood, where he is disillusioned by the foibles of his screen idols. He is befriended by comedienne and stuntwoman Flips Montague, who helps him land a bit part, which he bungles so badly with his comically inept acting that the studio is inspired to use him for comedy.
Merton of the Movies' is a comic novel by Harry Leon Wilson. The story follows small-town bumpkin Merton Gill who fantasizes about joining the glamoro...
"In the days of '49 seven trails led from our Western frontier into the Wonderland that lay far out under the setting sun and called to the restless. Each of the seven had been blazed mile by mile through the mighty romance of an empire's founding. Some of them for long stretches are now overgrown by the herbage of the plain; some have faded back into the desert they lined; and more than one has been shod with steel. But along them all flit and brood the memory-ghosts of old, rich-coloured days. To the shout of teamster, the yell of savage, the creaking of tented ox-cart, and the rattle of...
"In the days of '49 seven trails led from our Western frontier into the Wonderland that lay far out under the setting sun and called to the restless. ...
