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Tales and FantasiesTales and FantasiesJohn Varey Nicholson was stupid; yet, stupider men than he are now sprawling in Parliament, and lauding themselves as the authors of their own distinction. He was of a fat habit, even from boyhood, and inclined to a cheerful and cursory reading...
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Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical LifeRound the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with...
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The Romany RyeThe Romany RyeI awoke at the first break of day, and, leaving the postillion fast asleep, stepped out of the tent. The dingle was dank and dripping. I lighted a fire of coals, and got my forge in readiness. I then ascended to the...
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KidnappedKidnapped While my husband and Mr. Henley were engaged in writing plays in Bournemouth they made a number of titles, hoping to use them in the future. Dramatic composition was not what my husband preferred, but the torrent of Mr. Henleys enthusiasm swept him...
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Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town LifeWinesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Irving Howe I must have been no more than fifteen or sixteen years old when I first chanced upon Winesburg, Ohio. Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Andersons small-town grotesques,...
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The King's JackalThe King's Jackal The private terrace of the Hotel Grand Bretagne, at Tangier, was shaded by a great awning of red and green and yellow, and strewn with colored mats, and plants in pots, and wicker chairs. It reached out from the Kings apartments...
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Hell Fer Sartain and Other StoriesHell Fer Sartain and Other Stories Thar was a dancin'-party Christmas night on "Hell fer Sartain." Jes tu'n up the fust crick beyond the bend thar, an' climb onto a stump, an' holler about ONCE, an' you'll see how the name come. Stranger, hit's...
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The Reporter Who Made Himself KingThe Reporter Who Made Himself King The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up. He holds that the only way to start is as a printer's devil or as an office boy, to...
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Soldiers of FortuneSoldiers of Fortune "It is so good of you to come early," said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. "I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the debutantes, except that they're...
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PenrodPenrod CHAPTER I A BOY AND HIS DOG CHAPTER II ROMANCE CHAPTER III THE COSTUME CHAPTER IV DESPERATION CHAPTER V THE PAGEANT OF THE TABLE ROUND CHAPTER VI EVENING CHAPTER VII EVILS OF DRINK CHAPTER VIII SCHOOL CHAPTER IX SOARING CHAPTER X UNCLE JOHN...
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BlixBlix It had just struck nine from the cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer's plate. Then she went down to the front door for the...
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The Lady, or the Tiger?The Lady, or the Tiger?In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king, whose ideas, though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors, were still large, florid, and untrammeled, as became the half of him which was barbaric. He...
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CranfordCranford In the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women. If a married couple come to settle in the town, somehow the gentleman disappears; he is either fairly frightened to death...
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The Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of MansoulThe Holy War, Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus, for the Regaining of the Metropolis of the World; Or, The Losing and Taking Again of the Town of MansoulIn the year 1682 there was published by Dorman Newman, at the Kings Arms in the...
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The Blue Lagoon: A RomanceThe Blue Lagoon: A Romance Mr Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the Shan van vaught, and accompanying the tune, punctuating it, with blows of his left heel on the focsle deck. He was...
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The CrossingThe Crossing I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River,...
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The Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball StoriesThe Redheaded Outfield, and Other Baseball Stories There was Delaney's red-haired trioRed Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was also his...
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The Lost PrinceThe Lost Prince There are many dreary and dingy rows of ugly houses in certain parts of London, but there certainly could not be any row more ugly or dingier than Philibert Place. There were stories that it had once been more attractive, but...
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Weir of Hermiston: An Unfinished RomanceWeir of Hermiston: An Unfinished RomanceI saw rain falling and the rainbow drawn On Lammermuir. Hearkening I heard again In my precipitous city beaten bells Winnow the keen sea wind. And here afar, Intent on my own race and place, I wrote. Take thou...
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The White Knight: Tirant Lo BlancThe White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc"Tirant lo Blanc is the best European novel of the fifteenth century," says Damaso Alonso in his excellent study.(1) Miguel de Cervantes, writing from the 17th century, affirms: "as far as style is concerned, this is the best book...
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