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Susan Lenox: Her Fall and RiseSusan Lenox: Her Fall and RiseEven now I cannot realize that he is dead, and often in the city streetson Fifth Avenue in particularI find myself glancing ahead for a glimpse of the tall, boyish, familiar figureexperience once again a flash of the old...
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Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the PriestLavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the PriestIn the following pages I have endeavoured to describe a dream, partly of study, partly of adventure, in which will be found copious notices of books, and many descriptions of life and manners, some in a very unusual...
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Maggie: A Girl of the StreetsMaggie: A Girl of the Streets A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honor of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row who were circling madly about the heap and pelting at him. Howls...
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The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as Told by HimselfThe Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as Told by HimselfLazarillo of Tormes appeared in sixteenth-century Spain like a breath of fresh air among hundreds of insipidly sentimental novels of chivalry. With so many works full of knights who were manly...
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The ConflictThe Conflict Four years at Wellesley; two years about equally divided among Paris, Dresden and Florence. And now Jane Hastings was at home again. At home in the unchanged housespacious, old-fashionedlooking down from its steeply sloping lawns and terraced gardens upon the sooty, smoky...
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The AmbassadorsThe Ambassadors Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of The Ambassadors, which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is...
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The Circular StaircaseThe Circular Staircase This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of those mysterious crimes that keep...
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The Fortune HunterThe Fortune Hunter A romantic figure was Feuerstein, of the German Theater stock company. He was tall and slender, and had large, handsome features. His coat was cut long over the shoulders and in at the waist to show his lines of strength and...
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The Grain of Dust: A NovelThe Grain of Dust: A Novel Into the offices of Lockyer, Sanders, Benchley, Lockyer & Norman, corporation lawyers, there drifted on a December afternoon a girl in search of work at stenography and typewriting. The firm was about the most important and most famousradical...
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The Magic Egg, and Other StoriesThe Magic Egg, and Other Stories THE MAGIC EGG "HIS WIFE'S DECEASED SISTER" THE WIDOW'S CRUISE CAPTAIN ELI'S BEST EAR LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST THE STAYING POWER OF SIR ROHAN A PIECE OF RED CALICO THE CHRISTMAS WRECK MY WELL AND WHAT CAME OUT OF...
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Frivolous CupidFrivolous Cupid He came back, moreover, to assume a position very different from his old one. He had left Harrow now, departing in the sweet aroma of a long score against Eton at Lord's, and was to go up to Oxford in October. Now...
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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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