Ruby or Heart Of Gold

by Lila Riley

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

108 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2004

Reviews

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

What I am thinking is "How in the world did this book get in here?" I may have belonged to Good Reads in the past, but don't remember mentioning that book. Allen and Jolee, "Ruby" was written, in case you don't know, by my great aunt Lila (Baba) who lived with my Mother's family until she died. She was quite remarkable for a woman who never came out of her room and wrote what she saw from her window or conceived in her mind. I have some of her diary entries and also her book--but not this one. I have the book she published in 1899. Amazon had several copies, as well as this copy (I ordered it also) which was obviously scanned from the original. What possessed this company to choose this book to reproduce, I don't know. The sketches in it are delightful. I admit I haven't read it yet. I have had the family copy since I was a child, so I guess it's time to get cracking! I know it is in the style of books of that era, all about the virtues admired in the day and the rewards of acquiring them. Mother would have been so thrilled to know that the book is still out there. If anyone knows anything about the publication of this book or its contents, I would love to hear.