Now you can purchase our books from Amazon.
Our amazon store can be found here The Republic of Letters Books.
We are also launching our trolbooks website that should be up and loaded in the next week or so with our latest news on all our books and the reviews that are coming in.
As well as Darlene and Company we just published a wonderful book by Keith Botsford. Will be publishing an excerpt soon. Â But for now you can purchase it here. Keith Botsford Collaboration $10.95 $3.00 S&H ISBN-100983072027 ISBN-139780983072027[...]
Nora Seton’s Collection of short stories is now available. You can read a excerpt here. Â Nora Seton: Darlene Darlene & Co By Nora Seton $10.95 $3.00 S & H [...]
We call it Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day. We buy poppies and wear them, and from my childhood on (which after all is no longer than a decade), a solemnity has attended on the moment. Not because those who died were soldiers — it is not a military moment — but because that war so [...[...]
1. The butcher’s daughter stands behind a long, narrow counter wearing a girl’s simple wool dress the color of an under ripe peach over which is laid a white apron, clean except for smudges of blood at the waist, where she’s always wiping her hands. Her blonde hair is braided into one long str[...]
I suppose they can be called ‘moral tales’. There were such things once, off-shoots of Pilgrims Progress. They were supposed both to entertain and instruct. I would rather call these particular stories ‘wisdom tales’. A Matter of Conscience, by the prolific and largely untra[...]
The political novels on which my generation grew up — Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men remains the best on America, or Koestler — are all based on an odd mix of attraction and disillusionment. This has not changed. Genuinely important political novels remain rare, butÂ[...]