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Susy, a Story of the Plains Where the San Leandro turnpike stretches its dusty, hot, and interminable length along the valley, at a point where the heat and dust have become intolerable, the monotonous expanse of wild oats on either side illimitable, and the...

Orpheus in Mayfair, and Other Stories and Sketches Heraclius Themistocles Margaritis was a professional musician. He was a singer and a composer of songs; he wrote poetry in Romaic, and composed tunes to suit rhymes. But it was not thus that he earned his...

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Cross Roads ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 2487 Author: Sangster, Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth) Release Date: Jan 1, 2001 Format: eBook Language: English

The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment I did not plan when I began writing these chapters to make an entire book, but only to put down the more or less unusual impressions, the events and adventures, of certain quiet pilgrimages in country roads....

Ghosts: A Domestic Tragedy in Three Acts Mrs. Alving (a widow). Oswald Alving (her son, an artist). Manders (the Pastor of the parish). Engstrand (a carpenter). Regina Engstrand (his daughter, in Mrs Alving's service). (SCENE.A large room looking upon a garden door in the...

Carmen I had always suspected the geographical authorities did not know what they were talking about when they located the battlefield of Munda in the county of the Bastuli-Poeni, close to the modern Monda, some two leagues north of Marbella. According to my own...

Doña Perfecta The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarn, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday. It does not derive from the romantic novel which immediately preceded...

The Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride An indistinct recollection of the very pretty little tale, called The Bellows-Mender, suggested the plot of this Drama. The incidents are, however, greatly altered from those in the tale, and the characters entirely re-cast. Having long...

Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Randolph Trent stepped from the Stockton boat on the San Francisco wharf, penniless, friendless, and unknown. Hunger might have been added to his trials, for, having paid his last coin in passage money, he had been a day and...

Sermons on the Card, and Other DiscoursesHugh Latimer, a farmers son, was born about the year 1491, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was an only son, with six sisters, who were all well cared for at home. He was a boy of fourteen when...

Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) When I lived in the country,which was a long time ago,our nearest neighbours were the Luscombes. They were very great personages in the country indeed, and the family were greatly respected; though not, so far as...

Letters on EnglandFranois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Franois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a...

The MarriagesWont you stay a little longer? the hostess asked while she held the girls hand and smiled. Its too early for every one to goits too absurd. Mrs. Churchley inclined her head to one side and looked gracious; she flourished about her face,...

Lost FaceIt was the end. Subienkow had travelled a long trail of bitterness and horror, homing like a dove for the capitals of Europe, and here, farther away than ever, in Russian America, the trail ceased. He sat in the snow, arms tied behind...

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and SatiresPopes life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George...

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Gala-Days Once there was a great noise in our house,a thumping and battering and grating. It was my own self dragging my big trunk down from the garret. I did it myself because I wanted it done. If I had said, "Halicarnassus, will you...

Tartarin De Tarascon The tale of Tartarin de Tarascon was written by Alphonse Daudet in 1872, and was one of the many works which he produced. In it he pokes gentle fun at a type of Frenchman who comes from the Midi, the area...

The Princess De Montpensier This story was written by Madame de Lafayette and published anonymously in 1662. It is set in a period almost 100 years previously during the sanguinary wars of the counter-reformation, when the Catholic rulers of Europe, with the encouragement of...