Excerpt from The Key to Paradise If he is impossible, I will not marry him. They should have let me see him first. This is my stepmother's doing; she has hurried the affair on to spite me, as if she had only just found out that I am fifteen, and that it is time to consider my future. During the recreation hour, when her dear est friends would fain have taken her aside and discussed the diamonds and silks and laces which were a necessary and delightful part of matrimony, she chose instead that they should play hide and seek with little girls of the junior class, on the plea that be fore long she would be debarred from playing any romping game at all. They laughed at her, but she got her own way, as indeed she generally did. She was one of the first to hide, and she slipped away down a side alley of the garden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Key of Paradise: Opening the Gate to Eternal Salvation Hilary bilhop, and S. Felix priell and Martyr Paul the firfi hermit, and S. Maurus abb. Marcellus P. And M. Anthony abbot hair of 8. Peter at Rome Canute King St Man. 81. SS M'aurius, Blah. Tha, Audifacis, and Abathum Martyrs S Fabian and Sebaflian Martyls Agnes virgin and Martyr V zncent and Anaflalius Martyrs 'efponfation B. V. M. And S. Emerentiana, tirgin and NI 'l imothy bifoop and Marhr onvrrfion of S. Paul the apolllc Polycasp bifnop and Martyr John Chryfuflom, bifliop and confcll'or Agnes' s Communoration Francis de Sales, hilhop and confeltor Martina, Virgin and M. Peter N olafco, abbot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Paradise, Lost and Won: Key to the Scriptures Is there a God, a father over all, Is there some mighty force that rules the spheres? Is there a deity behind the wall Of heaven, and mystery of years? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Paradise Malory Dwight had taken the five-mile drive from his farm to the village, and hitched his horse in front of the house where Ann Parsons, the old nurse, had a second-floor tenement. The door was locked, the curtains, all over the house, were down. He drew a breath of despair, for he needed Ann greatly. As he stood on the narrow side walk, debating, a man hailed him from the other side of the street. "Guess she's gone to the hall, Malory. There's doin's there." "Much obliged." Malory untied his horse and stepped into the wagon again, and as the voice continued, "How's your sister?" he replied briefly, "Worse," and drove on through the one street whose modest signboards proclaimed the life of trade. He drew up in front of the little yellow hall where the "doings" predicted were already apparent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the award-winning, best-selling author of the classic A Little Life—a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the American experiment, about lovers, family, loss and the elusive promise of utopia. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: VOGUE • ESQUIRE • NPR • GOODREADS To Paradise is a fin de siècle novel of marvelous literary effect, but above all it is a work of emotional genius. The great power of this remarkable novel is driven by Yanagihara’s understanding of the aching desire to protect those we love—partners, lovers, children, friends, family, and even our fellow citizens—and the pain that ensues when we cannot. In an alternate version of 1893 America, New York is part of the Free States, where people may live and love whomever they please (or so it seems). The fragile young scion of a distinguished family resists betrothal to a worthy suitor, drawn to a charming music teacher of no means. In a 1993 Manhattan besieged by the AIDS epidemic, a young Hawaiian man lives with his much older, wealthier partner, hiding his troubled childhood and the fate of his father. And in 2093, in a world riven by plagues and governed by totalitarian rule, a powerful scientist’s damaged granddaughter tries to navigate life without him—and solve the mystery of her husband’s disappearances. These three sections comprise an ingenious symphony, as recurring notes and themes deepen and enrich one another: A townhouse in Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village; illness, and treatments that come at a terrible cost; wealth and squalor; the weak and the strong; race; the definition of family, and of nationhood; the dangerous righteousness of the powerful, and of revolutionaries; the longing to find a place in an earthly paradise, and the gradual realization that it can’t exist. What unites not just the characters, but these Americas, are their reckonings with the qualities that make us human: Fear. Love. Shame. Need. Loneliness.