An atypical story concerning depression while lessons in humiliation and pain are learned growing up, living life is deliberately stunted by proud arrogance. Wi

"The Beautiful Wretch" by William Black unfolds as a captivating story of romance and societal expectations set towards the backdrop of Victorian Scotland. Publ

"Wherever politics has been happening in the past half-century, Jules Witcover has been on the scene -- watching, interviewing, reporting." -- David S. Broder,

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols" by William Black offers a collection of three captivating stories that span different sett