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The Forsyte Saga - CompleteThe Forsyte Saga - Complete The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called The Man of Property; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is...
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The Woman Who DidThe Woman Who Did But surely no woman would ever dare to do so, said my friend. I knew a woman who did, said I; and this is her story. Mrs Dewsburys lawn was held by those who knew it the loveliest in Surrey....
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Wakulla: a story of adventure in FloridaWakulla: a story of adventure in Florida "We are sorry to learn that our esteemed fellow-townsman, Mark Elmer, Esq., owing to delicate health, feels compelled to remove to a warmer climate. Having disposed of his property in this place, Mr. Elmer has purchased a...
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Martie, the UnconqueredMartie, the Unconquered At about four o'clock on a windy, warm September afternoon, four girls came out of the post-office of Monroe, California. They had loitered on their way in, consciously wasting time; they had spent fifteen minutes in the dark and dirty room...
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Maria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John CountryMaria Chapdelaine: A Tale of the Lake St. John Country A moment earlier it had seemed quite deserted, this church set by the roadside on the high bank of the Peribonka, whose icy snow-covered surface was like a winding strip of plain. The snow...
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The Pit: A Story of ChicagoThe Pit: A Story of Chicago In memory of certain lamentable tales of the round (dining-room) table heroes; of the epic of the pewter platoons, and the romance-cycle of "Gaston Le Fox," which we invented, maintained, and found marvellous at a time when we...
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Under Fire: The Story of a SquadUnder Fire: The Story of a Squad MONT BLANC, the Dent du Midi, and the Aiguille Verte look across at the bloodless faces that show above the blankets along the gallery of the sanatorium. This roofed-in gallery of rustic wood-work on the first floor...
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The Fortunate YouthThe Fortunate Youth PAUL KEGWORTHY lived with his mother, Mrs. Button, his stepfather, Mr. Button, and six little Buttons, his half brothers and sisters. His was not an ideal home; it consisted in a bedroom, a kitchen and a scullery in a grimy little...
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In HomespunIn Homespun In South Kent villages with names ending in 'den,' and out away on the Sussex downs where villages end in 'hurst,' live the plain people who talk this plain speecha speech that should be sweeter in English ears than the implacable consonants...
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Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage PatchMrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Mrs. Wiggs made the statement as cheerfully as if her elbows were not sticking out through the boy's coat that she wore, or her teeth chattering in her head like a pair of castanets. But, then, Mrs. Wiggs...
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Sowing Seeds in DannySowing Seeds in Danny "SO MANY FAITHSSO MANY CREEDS, SO MANY PATHS THAT WIND AND WIND WHILE JUST THE ART OF BEING KIND, IS WHAT THE OLD WORLD NEEDS!" In her comfortable sitting room Mrs. J. Burton Francis sat, at peace with herself and...
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Flappers and PhilosophersFlappers and PhilosophersThis unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden...
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The Lances of LynwoodThe Lances of Lynwood For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young...
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Vendetta: A Story of One ForgottenVendetta: A Story of One Forgotten Lest those who read the following pages should deem this story at all improbable, it is perhaps necessary to say that its chief incidents are founded on an actual occurrence which took place in Naples during the last...
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Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the HeiressFive Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress About the time the winner of the Baltimore Handicap flashed under the wire, Johnny Gamble started to tear up a bundle of nice pink tickets on Lady S. Just then Ashley Loring came by...
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My Young Alcides: A Faded PhotographMy Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph But the Hercules myth did not seem to me to be like one of the fairy tales that we have seen so gracefully and quaintly modernised; and at the risk of seeming to travestie the Farnese statue in...
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Sparrows: The Story of an Unprotected GirlSparrows: The Story of an Unprotected Girl Everyone at Melkbridge knew the Devitts: they lived in the new, pretentious-looking house, standing on the right, a few minutes after one left the town by the Bathminster road. It was a blustering, stare-one-in-the-face kind of house,...
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Marie a story of Russian loveMarie; a story of Russian love Alexander Pushkin, the most distinguished poet of Russia, was born at Saint Petersburg, 1799. When only twenty-one years of age he entered the civil service in the department of foreign affairs. Lord Byrons writings and efforts for Greek...
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The British BarbariansThe British Barbarians Which every reader of this book is requested to read before beginning the story. This is a Hill-top Novel. I dedicate it to all who have heart enough, brain enough, and soul enough to understand it. What do I mean by...
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The Valley of DecisionThe Valley of Decision It was very still in the small neglected chapel. The noises of the farm came faintly through closed doorsvoices shouting at the oxen in the lower fields, the querulous bark of the old house-dog, and Filomena's angry calls to the...
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