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Brazilian Tales

Albuquerque

Brazilian Tales is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period - the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive prefac..

Flood Tide

Sara Ware Bassett

Flood Tide is a love story written by Sara Ware Bassett, an American author of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels primarily deal with New England characters, and most of them are set in two fictional ..

Alice in Blunderland - An Iridescent Dream

John Kendrick Bangs

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream is a novel by John Kendrick Bangs. It was first published in 1907 by Doubleday, Page & Co. of New York, with illustrations by Albert Levering. It is a pol..

Cranford

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Cranford is one of the better-known novels of the 19th-century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published, irregularly, in eight instalments, between December 1851 and May 1853, in the m..

Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1

Henry Fielding

The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams, was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the..

A Parody Outline of History

Donald Ogden Stewart

Mr. H. G. Wells, in his "Outline of History," was of necessity forced to omit the narration of many of the chief events in the history of these United States. Such omissions I have in this brief volum..

Bunker Bean

Harry Leon Wilson

Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, but alas.....is not them. He grows up in this humorous volume ..

Back to the Woods

George V. Hobart

Back to the Woods is a collection of humorous stories written by George V. Hobar. The stories are John Henry's burglarJohn Henry's country copJohn Henry's ghost storyJohn Henry's happy home...