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| The Bobbsey Twins |
| By Hope, Laura Lee |
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By, Hope, Laura Lee
The Bobbsey Twins Were Very Busy That Morning. They Were All Seated Around The Dining-room Table, Making Houses And Furnishing Them. The Houses Were Being Made Out Of Pasteboard Shoe Boxes, And Had Square Holes Cut In Them For Doors, And Other Long ...
| The Blood Ship |
| By Springer, Norman |
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By, Springer, Norman
It Was The Writing Guy Who Drew This Story Out Of Captain Shreve. He Talked So Much I Think The Old Man Spun The Yarn Just To Shut Him Up. He Had Talked Ever Since His Arrival On Board, Early That Morning, With A Letter From The Owners' Agent, And ...
| The Black Pearl |
| By Woodrow, Wilson(Mrs) |
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By, Woodrow, Wilson(Mrs)
It Was Just At Sunset That The Train Which Had Crawled Across The Desert Drew Up, Puffing And Panting, Before The Village Of Paloma, Not Many Miles From The Salton Sea. After A Moment's Delay, One Lone Passenger Descended. Paloma Was Not An ...
| The Best American Humorous Short Stories |
| By Various |
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By, Various
This Volume Does Not Aim To Contain All "the Best American Humorous Short Stories"; There Are Many Other Stories Equally As Good, I Suppose, In Much The Same Vein, Scattered Through The Range Of American Literature....
| The Adventures Of Kathlyn |
| By Macgrath, Harold |
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By, Macgrath, Harold
Under A Canopied Platform Stood A Young Girl, Modeling In Clay. The Glare Of The California Sunshine, Filtering Through The Canvas, Became Mellowed, Warm And Golden....
| The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finny |
| By Twain, Mark |
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By, Twain, Mark
You Don't Know About Me Without You Have Read A Book By The Name Of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer; But That Ain't No Matter. That Book Was Made By Mr. Mark Twain, And He Told The Truth, Mainly....
| Stories Of A Western Town |
| By Thanet, Octave |
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By, Thanet, Octave
There Was A Drabble Of Dead Leaves On The Sidewalk Which Was Of Wood, And On The Roadway Which Was Of Macadam And Stiff Mud. The Wind Blew Sharply, For It Was A December Day And Only Six In The Morning. ...
| Romance |
| By Conrad, Joseph |
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By, Conrad, Joseph
To Yesterday And To To-day I Say My Polite "vaya Usted Con Dios." What Are These Days To Me? But That Far-off Day Of My Romance, When From Between The Blue And White Bales In Don Ramon's Darkened Storeroom, At Kingston, I Saw The Door Open Before ...
| Robinson Crusoe |
| By Defoe, Daniel |
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By, Defoe, Daniel
I Was Born In The Year 1632, In The City Of York, Of A Good Family, Though Not Of That Country, My Father Being A Foreigner Of Bremen, Who Settled First At Hull. ...
| Public Opinion |
| By Lippmann, Walter |
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By, Lippmann, Walter
"behold! Human Beings Living In A Sort Of Underground Den, Which Has A Mouth Open Towards The Light And Reaching All Across The Den; They Have Been Here From Their Childhood, And Have Their Legs And Necks Chained So That They Cannot Move, And Can ...
| Pride And Prejudice |
| By Austen, Jane |
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By, Austen, Jane
It Is A Truth Universally Acknowledged, That A Single Man In Possession Of A Good Fortune, Must Be In Want Of A Wife. However Little Known The Feelings Or Views Of Such A Man May Be On His First Entering A Neighbourhood, This Truth Is So Well Fixed ...
| Pembroke |
| By Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins |
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By, Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
_pembroke_ Was Originally Intended As A Study Of The Human Will In Several New England Characters, In Different Phases Of Disease And Abnormal Development, And To Prove, Especially In The Most Marked Case, The Truth Of A Theory That Its Cure ...
| Opera Stories From Wagner |
| By Akin, Florence |
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By, Akin, Florence
The Verses Printed In This Book Are Quoted From Dr. Oliver Huckel's Translations Of The Rhine-gold, The Walkuere, Siegfried, And Goetterdaemmerung, By The Kind Permission Of The Publishers, Messrs. Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. An Occasional Sentence ...
| Ole Mammy's Torment |
| By Johnston, Annie Fellows |
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By, Johnston, Annie Fellows
Uncle Billy Rested His Axe On The Log He Was Chopping, And Turned His Grizzly Old Head To One Side, Listening Intently. A Confusion Of Sounds Came From The Little Cabin Across The Road....
| None Other Gods |
| By Benson, Robert Hugh |
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By, Benson, Robert Hugh
"i Think You're Behaving Like An Absolute Idiot," Said Jack Kirkby Indignantly. Frank Grinned Pleasantly, And Added His Left Foot To His Right One In The Broad Window-seat....
| Miss Or Mrs? |
| By Collins, Wilkie |
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By, Collins, Wilkie
The Night Had Come To An End. The New-born Day Waited For Its Quickening Light In The Silence That Is Never Known On Land--the Silence Before Sunrise, In A Calm At Sea....
| Masques & Phases |
| By Ross, Robert |
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By, Ross, Robert
It Is Not Often The Privilege Of A Contributor To Address His Former Editor In So Fatherly A Fashion; Yet It Is Appropriate Because You Justified An Old Proverb In Becoming, If I May Say So, My Literary Parent. ...
| Lorna Doone |
| By Blackmore, R. D. |
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By, Blackmore, R. D.
This Work Is Called A "romance," Because The Incidents, Characters, Time, And Scenery, Are Alike Romantic. And In Shaping This Old Tale, The Writer Neither Dares, Nor Desires, To Claim For It The Dignity Or Cumber It With The Difficulty Of An ...
| Helmet Of Navarre |
| By Runkle, Bertha |
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By, Runkle, Bertha
At The Stair-foot The Landlord Stopped Me. "here, Lad, Take A Candle. The Stairs Are Dark, And, Since I Like Your Looks, I Would Not Have You Break Your Neck."...
| Field Hospital And Flying Column |
| By Thurstan, Violetta |
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By, Thurstan, Violetta
War, War, War. For Me The Beginning Of The War Was A Torchlight Tattoo On Salisbury Plain. It Was Held On One Of Those Breathless Evenings In July When The Peace Of Europe Was Trembling In The Balance, And When Most Of Us Had A Heartache In ...
| Everybody's Lonesome |
| By Laughlin, Clara E. |
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By, Laughlin, Clara E.
Mary Alice Came Home Quietly From The Party. Most Of The Doors In The House Were Closed, Because It Was Cold, And The Halls Were Hard To Heat. Mary Alice Knew Exactly What She Should See And Hear If She Opened That Door At Her Right As She Entered ...
| Elsie At Home |
| By Finley, Martha |
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By, Finley, Martha
The Shades Of Evening Were Closing In Upon A Stormy March Day; Rain And Sleet Falling Fast While A Blustering Northeast Wind Sent Them Sweeping Across The Desolate-looking Fields And Gardens, And Over The Wet Road Where A Hack Was Lumbering ...
| Effie Maurice |
| By Forester, Fanny |
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By, Forester, Fanny
'thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me.' 'mother,' Said Little Effie Maurice, On A Sabbath Evening In Winter, 'mr L---- Said To-day That We Are All In Danger Of Breaking The First Commandment,--do You Think We Are?'...
| Dracula |
| By Stoker, Bram |
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By, Stoker, Bram
3 May. Bistritz.--left Munich At 8:35 P.m., On 1st May, Arriving At Vienna Early Next Morning; Should Have Arrived At 6:46, But Train Was An Hour Late. Buda-pesth Seems A Wonderful Place, From The Glimpse Which I Got Of It From The Train And The ...
| Brother Jacob |
| By Eliot, George |
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By, Eliot, George
Among The Many Fatalities Attending The Bloom Of Young Desire, That Of Blindly Taking To The Confectionery Line Has Not, Perhaps, Been Sufficiently Considered. How Is The Son Of A British Yeoman, Who Has Been Fed Principally On Salt Pork And Yeast ...
| Bound To Rise |
| By Alger, Horatio |
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By, Alger, Horatio
The Speaker Was A Woman Of Middle Age, Not Good-looking In The Ordinary Acceptation Of The Term, But Nevertheless She Looked Good. She Was Dressed With Extreme Plainness, In A Cheap Calico; But Though Cheap, The Dress Was Neat. The Children She ...
| Bert Wilson In The Rockies |
| By Duffield, J. W. |
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By, Duffield, J. W.
A Shower Of Glass From The Shattered Windowpane Fell Over The Floor And Seats, And A Bullet Embedded Itself In The Woodwork Of An Upper Berth. There Was A Shriek From The Women Passengers In The Crowded Pullman, And The Men Looked At Each Other In ...
| Berry And Co. |
| By Yates, Dornford |
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By, Yates, Dornford
When A Writer Admits That He Has An Affection For Something Which He Has Written, It Is High Time To Pray For His Soul. Yet I Make Bold To Confess That There Are In This Book Some Passages Which I Hold Dear?a Seeming Vanity, Which Must Be E...
| Before Adam |
| By London, Jack |
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By, London, Jack
Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, Before I Learned, Did I Wonder Whence Came The Multitudes Of Pictures That Thronged My Dreams; For They Were Pictures The Like Of Which I Had Never Seen In Real Wake-a-day Life. ...
| Alexander?s Bridge |
| By Cather, Willa |
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By, Cather, Willa
Late One Brilliant April Afternoon Professor Lucius Wilson Stood At The Head Of Chestnut Street, Looking About Him With The Pleased Air Of A Man Of Taste Who Does Not Very Often Get To Boston. ...