My Neighbour Nelly, Lady Denzil, The Stockbroker at Dinglewood, The Scientific Gentleman, Lady Isabella, An Elderly Romance, Mrs. Merridew's Fortune, The Barley Mow, My Faithful Johnny.

Neighbours on the Green is a collection of short stories that take place in the village of Dinglefield Green. The narrator of these stories, Mrs. Mulgrave, is a cleverly observant and discreet woman. These witty stories include interesting plots and delightful character studies of the aristocratic community on the Green. The Scottish novelist, Mrs. Oliphant, entertains the readers with her vivid and realistic writing style. Her characters are all unique in their own particular way. The careful observations made by Mrs. Mulgrave in the stories are presented in an incredibly descriptive manner that their picture remains with the readers for a long time. This work is a perfect example of the domestic realism she used in her fictional works.

In potent, graceful prose that sensitively unearths the social complexity and tangled history of colonial relations, Silver presents an astonishingly vivid picture of 18th-century America. 13 illustrations; 2 maps.

In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them. In the title story, in which Jones employs the first-person rhythms of a classic detective story, a Korean War veteran investigates the death of a family friend whose sorry destiny seems inextricable from his mother's own violent Southern childhood. In "In the Blink of God's Eye" and "Tapestry" newly married couples leave behind the familiarity of rural life to pursue lives of urban promise only to be challenged and disappointed. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.

Reproduction of the original: Neighbors by Jacob A. Riis