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Aunt Jane's Nieces out West"Nevertheless," said Beth de Graf, soberly, "I think the people have struck a rapid pace these days and are growing bold and impudent. The law appears to allow them too much liberty. After our experience of this morning I shall...

Aunt Jimmy's WillBird OMore crouched in a little black heap in the corner of the sofa that stood between the closed windows in the farmhouse sitting room. Her eyes, that looked straight before her, yet without seeing anything, were quite dry; but her feverish...

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 1As grandmothers rummage their piece-bags and bundles in search of gay odds and ends to make gifts with which to fill the little stockings that hang all in a row on Christmas Eve, so I have gathered together some...

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 2 - Shawl-StrapsThere is a sort of fate about writing books of travel which it is impossible to escape. It is vain to declare that no inducement will bribe one to do it, that there is nothing new to...

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 5 - Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc.A boy sat on a door-step in a despondent attitude, with his eyes fixed on a pair of very shabby shoes, and his elbows resting on his knees, as if to hide...

Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag, Volume 6 - An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.Sixty years ago, up among the New Hampshire hills, lived Farmer Bassett, with a house full of sturdy sons and daughters growing up about him. They were poor in money, but rich in land...

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 3 - Cupid and Chow-chow, etc. I. Cupid and Chow-Chow II. Huckleberry III. Nelly's Hospital IV. Grandma's Team V. Fairy Pinafores VI. Mamma's Plot VII. Kate's Choice VIII. The Moss People IX. What Fanny Heard X. A Marine Merry-making Mamma...

Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Volume 4 - My Girls, etc. I. My Girls II. Lost in a London Fog III. The Boys' Joke, and who got the best of it IV. Roses and Forget-me-nots V. Old Major VI. What the Girls did VII. Little Neighbors...

Aunt Judith: The Story of a Loving Life Luncheon hour was almost over, and the pupils belonging to Mrs. Elder's Select Establishment for Young Ladies were gathered together in the large school-room, some enjoying a merry chat, others, more studiously inclined, conning over a...

Aunt Judy's TalesHow could mamma have ventured upon that cosy nap in the arm-chair by the fire, if she had been harassed by wondering what the children were about? Whereas, as it was, she had overheard No. 8 begging the one they all called...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life...

Aunt Kitty's Stories Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep Hickety, pickety, my black hen Dickery, dickery, dare Driddlety drum, driddlety drum A little pig found a fifty dollar note This is the way the ladies go THE MARRIAGE OF COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN...

Aunt Kitty's TalesIt has been several years since Aunt Kitty last presented herself to her young friends, yet she hopes that she has not been forgotten by them, and that her reappearance will give them pleasure. She introduces to them in the present volume...

Aunt Madge's StoryHere you sit, Horace, Prudy, Dotty, and Flyaway, all waiting for a story. How shall I begin? I cannot remember the events of my life in right order, so I shall have to tell them as they come into my mind. Let...

Aunt MaryIndeed she had lived there the greater part of her life, for her father, Mr. Livesay, who had been a highly respected merchant in London for a great many years, had, unlike the generality of this prosperous class, retired from business as soon...

Aunt Mary's Primer - Adorned with a Hundred and Twenty Pretty Pictures When Little Mary (or any other little girl or boy) knows all the letters perfectly, let the teacher turn over a page and pronounce one of the mono-syllables. Do not say a,...

Aunt Olive in BohemiaONCE upon a time, as the fairy tales have it, there was a certain country town. It was a sleepy little town, where few things happened. It was like a dog grown old and lazy with basking in the sun, undisturbed...

Aunt Phillis's Cabin; Or, Southern Life As It IsA writer on Slavery has no difficulty in tracing back its origin. There is also the advantage of finding it, with its continued history, and the laws given by God to govern his own institution, in...

Aunt Rachel - A Rustic Sentimental Comedy A critic, otherwise almost altogether friendly, protests, in reviewing a recent book of mine, that no rustics ever would, could, or will talk in real life as the rustics in that work are made to talk by...

Storytelling is an ancient and powerful human tradition. It ties us to cultural memory and the experiences of those who came before us, linking one generation to the next. Oral tradition is of keen importance to Black heritage and is honored here in this...