A ship's hand and a young noblewoman are castaway on an island with a remarkable fruit. (Very long) This version includes drawings from the long-lost sketchbook of William Gillingham.
I read everything and I think it's an amazing story.
Fantastic. Descriptive, romantic, and very, very sexy. One of the best stories I've read in years.
The story was great, it brought back memories of the classic Victorian book The Pearl.
The drawing were wonderful, so classic. I look forward to reading the sequels. More
Finally, a story with class. Please continue with your work, you are quite talented.
To me, the drawings were a only a supplement to your great powers of description. Nice work!
Just exquisite!
Great, consistent, practically flawless work on the archaic English prose. Story flow and plot build-up very steady, exciting.
I loved the characterization. These were people I liked. And Arianna herself - what a personality, sweet demeanor, sexy playful mind! And her body... a dream.
Overall - strong, clean writing with a lot of style. Not once did your prose make me gag, like some of the other stories in this archive. Eggs, you have great style (also evident in the other stories you have submitted.
Thanks for what you've done for us. Please grace us with more!
5's are no longer adequate.
Tens.
Tens are what this story & its awesome drawings deserve.
I can honestly point to this work as one of the few epic stories of BE fiction. While it might not have the breadth or sheer volume of episodes of the Dr. Hooters or Lactomania sagas, it somehow condenses the captivating qualities of them into a single writing of intense variety and creativity.
This particular piece I see as having at least the same potential for many sequels, not the least of which could be how they become rescued from the island, and perhaps details of some of their adventures in reaching Colorado; my mind runs wild at the sorts of erotic adventures these two could have in the great wilderness of the Northern Rockies.
I wait, quite impatiently, for your next installment.
-Max
Awesome storytelling skills and I mean that in the English sense of the word. Truely a masterful tale that haunted me in between readings (yes, I read it twice) Just a couple of points, it occurred to me that even after her revelation he was still appearing subservient which became a little old after a while. Also, it would have been nice to hear more tales of this wonderful couple.
I really loved reading this story.
Its not often that I encounter a story here that is so well completed. Good long read and not rushed right in to the action. The illustration added really topped it off for me.Even tho I liked the overall story, the writing style wasn't to my likings. I had some difficulties digesting the 19th century way of speaking. Never the less it was still very well done.
I'm hoping and some what looking forward on reading an other story of equal quality.
An already-wonderful story made even better with some excellent illustrations.
Very well edited and presented, with a lot of style kept in mind to make the entire language something of a marvel.
Kudos.
A most excellent of stories, would definitely be interested in more about them and their resulting family.
Pure awesome
awesome.
deducted a point for the style: a little off for a mid-19th century American.
incredible.. the illustrations are also exquisite; definitely adds to the story. the best story on this site, imho.