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The Wife, and Other StoriesThe Wife, and Other Stories Not far from youthat is to say, in the village of Pestrovovery distressing incidents are taking place, concerning which I feel it my duty to write to you. All the peasants of that village sold their cottages and all...
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The Young ForesterThe Young Forester I loved outdoor life and hunting. Some way a grizzly bear would come in when I tried to explain forestry to my brother. Just wait, Hal, till he comes out here. I'll show him that forestry isn't just bear-hunting. My brother...
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The Call of the CanyonThe Call of the Canyon It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter...
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The Pathfinder Or, The Inland SeaThe Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea The plan of this tale suggested itself to the writer many years since, though the details are altogether of recent invention. The idea of associating seamen and savages in incidents that might be supposed characteristic of the Great...
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Royalty Restored Or, London Under Charles IIRoyalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II No social history of the court of Charles II. has heretofore been written. The Grammont Memoirs, devoid of date and detail, and addressed "to those who read only for amusement," present but brief imperfect sketches of the...
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A Millionaire of YesterdayA Millionaire of Yesterday Filth, grunted Trentugh! I tell you what it is, my venerable friendI have seen some dirty cabins in the west of Ireland and some vile holes in East London. I've been in some places which I can't think of even...
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A Mountain WomanA Mountain Woman Transcriber's Note: I have omitted signature designations and have closed abbreviations, e.g., do n't becoming don't, etc. In addition, I have made the following changes to the text: MOST of the tales in this little book have been printed before. A...
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The Shape of FearThe Shape of Fear TIM O'CONNORwho was descended from the O'Conors with one N started life as a poet and an enthusiast. His mother had designed him for the priesthood, and at the age of fifteen, most of his verses had an ecclesiastical tinge,...
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Painted WindowsPainted Windows YOUNG people believe very little that they hear about the compensations of growing old, and of living over again in memory the events of the past. Yet there really are these compensations and pleasures, and although they are not so vivid and...
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The Railway ChildrenThe Railway Children They were not railway children to begin with. I don't suppose they had ever thought about railways except as a means of getting to Maskelyne and Cook's, the Pantomime, Zoological Gardens, and Madame Tussaud's. They were just ordinary suburban children, and...
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GambaraGambara New Years Day of 1831 was pouring out its packets of sugared almonds, four oclock was striking, there was a mob in the Palais-Royal, and the eating-houses were beginning to fill. At this moment a coupe drew up at the perron and a...
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The Red House MysteryThe Red House Mystery My dear Father, Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for...
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The Deputy of ArcisThe Deputy of Arcis Once in possession of the information furnished by the landlady of the Mulet and by the sub-prefect Antonin Goulard, Monsieur de Trailles had soon arranged his plan of electoral operations, and this plan evinces itself so readily that the reader...
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Reginald in Russia, and Other SketchesReginald in Russia, and Other SketchesHe is a delightful person. One would not like a rich and octogenarian uncle to suppose that Reginald was ones ideal of conduct and conversion. Yet there is sometimes reason in his paradoxical frivolities, and justice in his practical...
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The Man in Lower TenThe Man in Lower Ten McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have been a bit squeamish. Given a case like that, where you...
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Penelope's PostscriptsPenelope's PostscriptsSalemina and I were in Geneva. If you had ever travelled through Europe with a charming spinster who never sat down at a Continental table dhte without being asked by an American vis--vis whether she were one of the P.s of Salem, Massachusetts,...
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The Diary of a Goose GirlThe Diary of a Goose GirlIn alluding to myself as a Goose Girl, I am using only the most modest of my titles; for I am also a poultry-maid, a tender of Belgian hares and rabbits, and a shepherdess; but I particularly fancy the...
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North America — Volume 2North America — Volume 2The site of the present city of Washington was chosen with three special views; firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from...
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North America — Volume 1North America — Volume 1It has been the ambition of my literary life to write a book about the United States, and I had made up my mind to visit the country with this object before the intestine troubles of the United States Government...
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Hero Tales from American HistoryHero Tales from American History To you we owe the suggestion of writing this book. Its purpose, as you know better than any one else, is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live...
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