New Releases by Ben Ames Williams

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Sea Bride" by Ben Ames Williams. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

The plot of The Great Accident revolves around Congressman Amos Caretall. He has a steel-trap mind and is considerate, courteous, and deceptively slow-moving. Except for the back-room saloons that prey on the town''s weaker citizens, he adores his hometown of Hardiston, Ohio. Winthrop Chase Sr., the smooth-talking smelter owner who is running for mayor and aspires to higher office, is Caretall''s only local political rival. But, as the Congressman is well aware, Chase has a flaw: Winthrop Chase Jr., an otherwise intelligent and capable young man who drowns himself in alcohol. Caretall declares his intention to "back a Chase for mayor" just before the election. In the year that follows, the plan he implements results in positive change for Hardiston as a whole and young Wint Chase in particular.

The first seven stories in this book have either locale or characters in common. The village called Fraternity is an actual one; and the surrounding countryside has a beauty which grows with long acquaintance. It is perhaps unnecessary to say that the characters are—with one exception—fictitious. The exception is Mr. A. L. McCorrison, better known as Bert McCorrison, who introduced the author to the trout brooks and the woodcock covers thereabouts. He appears in some of the stories, under the name of Chet McAusland. The third story in the book, "Old Tantrybogus," is—so far as the dog is concerned—a true story. The last two stories in the Fraternity group, "Jeshurun Waxed Fat" and "Epitome," together with the succeeding seven, are each less than four thousand words in length. These stories represent successive attempts to combine brevity with other and more elusive attributes.

When the director of the Jervis trust vanishes with a fortune in bonds he sets into motion a sequence of danger and death which disrupts the lives of Clint and Clara Jervis, heirs of the estate. It is while they are backstage in the Booth Theater that disaster strikes. During the shooting scene of a gangster play a man is murdered and proves to be a shady doctor who had been involved in a scandal with Clara on the Coast and whose life had been threatened by Clint. Things look black for the Jervis clan until Inspector Tope arrives to find the link between the murder and the missing trust director. A tense, absorbing novel.

''All the Brothers Were Valiant'' is a naval adventure story by Ben Ames Williams. The story follows Mark Shore, the elder brother of Joel, who was captain of a whaling schooner called the "Nathan Ross". When Mark''s ship returned to port from a trip to the Gilbert Islands, he was no longer aboard. Joel, who was working on another ship at the time, asks to be transferred to his brother''s ship for a 3-year sojourn so that he can try to locate him. The request is granted and Joel takes his brother''s place on the "Nathan Ross".

The Venturer was a proud ship, riding the South Seas'' blue waters with grace and majesty. Then beautiful Mary McAusland came aboard. One man possessed her. Another watched her with desire, and vowed to have her at any price. There was a third ... who loved her deeply but could not tell her so. As the ship sailed deeper into strange waters, passions rose to hurricane force. Then, one night, the human storm broke forth in all its fury...

New Orleans and Louisiana politics during the Reconstruction period, 1865-74.

Miner''s son in Ohio in 1890.

Sixteen short stories with background of a Maine village.

Photocopy of B.A. Williams'' edited typescript of Mary Boykin Chesnut''s writings, published in 1949 as "A Diary from Dixie."

"For almost thirty years Ellen and Arthur Sentry had lived a gracious and orderly life together, with their three children - Mary, Phil and Barbara. Then one evening police came to the house and arrested Arthur Sentry on a charge of murder. This sudden turn of events hit the Sentry family with the shock of a lightning bolt. And the shock turned to horror when Ellen, Mary, Phil and Barbara all discovered that they were in a position to give damning evidence against Mr. Sentry!"--Back cover

"Tragedy in an Iowa farm family." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation

"The attempt in this book has been to tell the story of the founding of a small Maine town, by ordinary people, in what was then an ordinary way. It was the way in which towns were founded from the Atlantic seaboard west to the great plains, by stripping off the forest and putting the land to work. The people in this book were not individually as important as George Washington; the town they founded was not as important as New York. But people like them made this country, and towns like ths one were and are the soil in which this country s roots are grounded." -- quote taken from Goodreads webpage: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1405666.Come_Spring

Story of a successful lawyer and his motherless son, and of their loyalty to one another.