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Uncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' EditionUncle Tom's Cabin, Young Folks' EditionERY many years ago, instead of having servants to wait upon them and work for them, people used to have slaves. These slaves were paid no wages. Their masters gave them only food and clothes in return for their...
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Wild Wings: A Romance of YouthWild Wings: A Romance of Youth 1921 Among the voluble, excited, commencement-bound crowd that boarded the Northampton train at Springfield two male passengers were conspicuous for their silence as they sat absorbed in their respective newspapers which each had hurriedly purchased in transit from...
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Potterism: A Tragi-Farcical TractPotterism: A Tragi-Farcical Tract 1920 'Truth may perhaps come to the price of a Pearle, that sheweth best by day; But it will not rise to the price of a Diamond or Carbuncle, that sheweth best in varied lights. A mixture of a Lie...
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For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department StoreFor Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Scores of pale-faced women and narrow-chested men stood behind the counters, while "cash girls," with waxen cheeks and scrawny figures, darted here and there on their ceaseless errands. On the fifth floor of...
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Mary WollastonMary Wollaston 1920 Miss Lucile Wollaston was set to exude sympathy, like an aphid waiting for an overworked ant to come down to breakfast. But there was no sympathizing with the man who came in from a doctor's all-night vigil like a boy from...
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No HeroNo Hero Has no writer ever dealt with the dramatic aspect of the unopened envelope? I cannot recall such a passage in any of my authors, and yet to my mind there is much matter for philosophy in what is always the expressionless shell...
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The Lost TrailThe Lost TrailThe bank, some fifteen or twenty feet in height, descended quite abruptly to the stream's edge. Though both shores were lined with dense forest, this particular portion possessed only several sparse clumps of shrubbery, which seemed like a breathing-space in this sea...
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Mary MarieMary MarieFather calls me Mary. Mother calls me Marie. Everybody else calls me Mary Marie. The rest of my name is Anderson. I'm thirteen years old, and I'm a cross-current and a contradiction. That is, Sarah says I'm that. (Sarah is my old nurse.)...
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Somewhere in FranceSomewhere in France Marie Gessler, known as Marie Chaumontel, Jeanne d'Avrechy, the Countess d'Aurillac, was German. Her father, who served through the Franco-Prussian War, was a German spy. It was from her mother she learned to speak French sufficiently well to satisfy even an...
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Pierre et JeanPierre et JeanJe n'ai point l'intention de plaider ici pour le petit roman qui suit. Tout au contraire les ides que je vais essayer de faire comprendre entraneraient plutt la critique du genre d'tude psychologique que j'ai entrepris dans Pierre et Jean. Il faut...
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The Case of Jennie BriceThe Case of Jennie BriceWe have just had another flood, bad enough, but only a foot or two of water on the first floor. Yesterday we got the mud shoveled out of the cellar and found Peter, the spaniel that Mr. Ladley left when...
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The Red Thumb MarkThe Red Thumb Mark In writing the following story, the author has had in view no purpose other than that of affording entertainment to such readers as are interested in problems of crime and their solutions; and the story itself differs in no respect...
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A Countess from Canada: A Story of Life in the BackwoodsA Countess from Canada: A Story of Life in the BackwoodsKatherine Radford stretched her arms wearily above her head as she spoke. There had been five days of persistent snowfall; but this morning the clouds had broken, showing strips and patches of blue sky,...
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Aus dem DurchschnittAus dem DurchschnittDem undurchdringlichen Nebel des Mrzabends war eine Frostnacht gefolgt. An der Ecke der Grtnerstrae und des Durchschnitts, in einem stlichen Vororte Hamburgs, hatte am Morgen darauf die Gltte des bereisten, abgenutzten Straendammes ein Opfer gefordert. Ein Droschkenpferd war so unglcklich gestrzt, da...
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The Girl at CobhurstThe Girl at Cobhurst 1898 It was about the middle of a March afternoon when Dr. Tolbridge, giving his horse and buggy into the charge of his stable boy, entered the warm hall of his house. His wife was delighted to see him; he...
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Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the FireOld Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire The portion of the ensuing Tale relating to the Grocer of Wood-street, and his manner of victualling his house, and shutting up himself and his family within it during the worst part of...
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Der Mann im NebelDer Mann im NebelWie vermisse ich Sie, Sie Ausreisser. Nach wie vor fhrt mich mein Berufsweg zweimal in der Woche an Ihrem alten Heim vorber, und ich werfe betrbte Blicke nach dem Eckfenster hinauf. Wie schn war's da oben: ich auf Ihrem breiten etwas...
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La Fontana de OroLa Fontana de OroLos hechos histricos novelescos contados en este libro, se refieren uno de los periodos de turbacin poltica y social ms graves interesantes en la gran poca de reorganizacin, que principi en 1812 y no parece prxima terminar todava. Mucho despus de...
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A Man of MarkA Man of Mark In the year 1884 the Republic of Aureataland was certainly not in a flourishing condition. Although most happily situated (it lies on the coast of South America, rather to the northI mustnt be more definite), and gifted with an extensive...
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The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected EssaysThe Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected EssaysCharles Waddell Chesnutt (1858-1932)African-American educator, lawyer, and activistwas the most prominent black prose author of his day. In both his fiction and his essays, he addressed the thorny issues of...
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