The complete online text of Halcyone by Elinor Glyn.

Elinor Glyn, glamorous socialite, incessant traveler, and romantic novelist, reached the peak of her celebrity in the autumn of 1907, when she published Three Weeks. Soon a naughty rhyme was circulating in New York and London society, cleverly mocking th...

British author Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) wrote a number of novels, many featuring strong female characters in sexually charged situations. The most scandalous was Three Weeks, which nearly ended Glyn's career. Later in her career she was lured to Hollywood...

St Trapez My father died on 14 July, 1989, in an obvious if somewhat self-defeating gesture against the 200-year celebration of the French Revolution. I always think of my dad on the infamous day which is France's national holiday, especially when I'm on...

ROBERT FELDBERG The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 04-10-2005 Halcyon days for the musical -- Four productions hit the bull's-eye ROBERT FELDBERG Date: 04-10-2005, Sunday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions Column: ONSTAGE Could Broadway be in a new Golden Age of musicals,...

Bonds worth $256 million will pay for the "rehabilitation" of the top 41 floors at 20 Exchange Place. The landmark 1929 Financial District building was the longtime home to Citibank (then known, shockingly, as Citi Bank). But sometime soon, those top floors (16 to 57)...

Investors have been hammering airline stocks, anxious about possible weakness in domestic travel.But analysts disagree on how much a cooling U.S. market would hurt the industry. Some say it could imperil expected 2008 earnings; others say carriers could overcome it due to continued strength in...