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The White Morning: A Novel of the Power of the German Women in WartimeThe White Morning: A Novel of the Power of the German Women in WartimeCountess Gisela Niebuhr sat in the long dusk of Munich staring over at the beautiful park that in happier days had been famous in the world as the Englischer Garten, and...
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Waysiders, Stories of ConnachtWaysiders, Stories of ConnachtThe name stood out in chaste white letters from the black background of the signboard. Indeed the name might be said to spring from the landscape, for this shop jumped from its rural setting with an air of aggression. It was...
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Mistress and Maid: A Household StoryMistress and Maid: A Household StoryShe was a rather tall, awkward, and strongly-built girl of about fifteen. This was the first impression the "maid" gave to her "mistresses," the Misses Leaf, when she entered their kitchen, accompanied by her mother, a widow and washer-woman,...
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The Waters of EderaThe Waters of Edera It was a country of wide pastures, of moors covered with heath, of rock-born streams and rivulets, of forest and hill and dale, sparsely inhabited, with the sea to the eastward of it, unseen, and the mountains everywhere visible always,...
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The Testing of Diana MalloryThe Testing of Diana MalloryThe clock in the tower of the village church had just struck the quarter. In the southeast a pale dawn light was beginning to show above the curving hollow of the down wherein the village lay enfolded; but the face...
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Les deux nigaudsLes deux nigaudsJe les enverrai avec la bonne et fidle Prudence; Simplicie ira chez ma soeur, Mme Bonbeck, laquelle je vais demander de les recevoir chez elle en lui payant la pension de Simplicie et de Prudence, car elle n'est pas assez riche pour...
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AylwinAylwinThough written many years ago this story was, for certain personal reasons easy to guess, withheld from publicationwithheld, as The Times pointed out, because 'with the Dichtung was mingled a good deal of Wahrheit,' But why did I still delay in publishing it after...
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A King's Comrade: A Story of Old HerefordA King's Comrade: A Story of Old HerefordHereford Cathedral bears the name of Ethelbert of East Anglia, king and martyr, round whose death, at the hands of the men of Offa of Mercia, this story of his comrade centres, and dates its foundation from...
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Miss BrethertonMiss BrethertonSo many criticisms, not of a literary but of a personal kind, have been made on this little book since its appearance, that I may perhaps be allowed a few words of answer to them in the shape of a short preface to...
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Zarlah the MartianZarlah the MartianSo thrilling were my experiences during that period, so overcrowded with feverish action and strong emotions was each wonderful moment, and so entirely changed are the conditions of life as I now find it, that it is with considerable difficulty that I...
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The Bishop and Other StoriesThe Bishop and Other Stories THE evening service was being celebrated on the eve of Palm Sunday in the Old Petrovsky Convent. When they began distributing the palm it was close upon ten oclock, the candles were burning dimly, the wicks wanted snuffing; it...
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The Darling and Other StoriesThe Darling and Other Stories OLENKA, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor, Plemyanniakov, was sitting in her back porch, lost in thought. It was hot, the flies were persistent and teasing, and it was pleasant to reflect that it would soon be evening....
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The Chorus Girl and Other StoriesThe Chorus Girl and Other StoriesONE day when she was younger and better-looking, and when her voice was stronger, Nikolay Petrovitch Kolpakov, her adorer, was sitting in the outer room in her summer villa. It was intolerably hot and stifling. Kolpakov, who had just...
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The Cook's Wedding and Other StoriesThe Cook's Wedding and Other Stories GRISHA, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set,...
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Love, and Other StoriesLove, and Other Stories THREE oclock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I cant sleep, I am so happy! My whole being from head to heels is bursting with...
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The Party and Other StoriesThe Party and Other Stories AFTER the festive dinner with its eight courses and its endless conversation, Olga Mihalovna, whose husbands name-day was being celebrated, went out into the garden. The duty of smiling and talking incessantly, the clatter of the crockery, the stupidity...
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The Lady with the Dog and Other StoriesThe Lady with the Dog and Other StoriesIT was said that a new person had appeared on the sea-front: a lady with a little dog. Dmitri Dmitritch Gurov, who had by then been a fortnight at Yalta, and so was fairly at home there,...
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The Schoolmaster and Other StoriesThe Schoolmaster and Other Stories FYODOR LUKITCH SYSOEV, the master of the factory school maintained at the expense of the firm of Kulikin, was getting ready for the annual dinner. Every year after the school examination the board of managers gave a dinner at...
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The Horse-Stealers and Other StoriesThe Horse-Stealers and Other Stories A HOSPITAL assistant, called Yergunov, an empty-headed fellow, known throughout the district as a great braggart and drunkard, was returning one evening in Christmas week from the hamlet of Ryepino, where he had been to make some purchases for...
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The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western TexasThe Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western TexasThe Revolution of 1830, which deprived Charles the Tenth of the throne of France, like all other great and sudden changes, proved the ruin of many individuals, more especially of many ancient...
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