Dorothy Canfield Fisher

An autobiographical testament of Jörg Fauser's self-deprecating, brutally honest, and oddly charming alter ego, Harry Gelb. Through Gelb, Fauser casts an eye over the times he lived as a junkie in Istanbul, in a commune in Berlin, and in a squat in Frankfurt, while working on an underground magazine, and trying ceaselessly to get a novel published.

Includes brief biographies of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Paul Jones, Patrick Henry, Nathan Hale, David Farragut, Dorothea Dix, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington Carver, and John Woodward Phillip.

Portrays the writing of the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution through the eyes of one Philadelphia family.

Principal of small town school is involved in a love affair and a township election.

Eight stories of the Basque people - sturdy, hard working, unaffected by modern customs.

The Irish sister Elizabeth and Maria Gunning were poor - but outstandingly beautiful. When they were invited to the Lord Lieutenant's ball their glittering gowns were borrowed from the Dublin Theatre wardrobe. But their entry into society was assured. Soon, in true fairy story fashion, they each married a fairy prince: Elizabeth becoming the Duchess of Hamilton and Maria the Countess of Coventry. But although they became the centre of admiration and envy at the Court, they faced appalling difficulties, Elizabeth married for love, but the Duke, though he adored his bride, was an alcoholic and a spendthrift. Maria married for ambition and only later found the love which was to become her whole life.