... century before the War of Independence, it describes the fight of the immigrants and the army to find good land and beat off the Indians. Miss Settle begins with a lone woman's fearful mountain trek and rescue by a solitary religious fanatic; goes back to Hannah's ...

... form an army and march away to fight what exactly does a detailed, un complicated account of the campaign satirise beyond the bare statement that war is childish And The Masquerade of Souls, where a man and woman fall in love in the soul's land where there ...

... a gentle, understanding creature who loves too much and achieves too little. The minor characters, the sisters' mother, a woman artist called Corrigan, a London youth Rob Edwards, the man Dinah marries all these are brilliant. Indeed, the whole book shimmers ...

... for the entrance of the Other Man, in need of medical aid. The Other Man is a British squadron-leader, who makes a crash-landing on the island. His arm is nearly torn off, and in a jiffy Miss Darnell performs an amputation. In order to perform it, she ...