Social Llife & Customs Books

Southern Lights and Shadows

William Dean Howells

Southern Lights and Shadows is a collection of American short stories written by carious authors and edited by William Dean Howells And Henry Mills Alden. The most noticeable characteristic of th..

Ilman menestyksettä

Wilkie Collins

Ilman menestyksettä is a Finnish work co-authored by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens...

Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

Charlotte M. Yonge

Of those who are invited to pay a visit to Beechcroft, there are some who, honestly acknowledging that amusement is their object, will be content to feel with Lilias, conjecture with Jane, and get int..

Paste Jewels

John Kendrick Bangs

It may interest the readers of this collection of tales, if there should be any such, to know that the incidents upon which the stories are based are unfortunately wholly truthful.  They have one..

Undertow

Kathleen Thompson Norris

The marriage of Albert Bradley and Anne Polk Barrett was as close as anything comes, in these prosaic days, to a high adventure. Nancy's Uncle Thomas, a quiet, gentle old Southerner who wore tan linen..

The Story of Julia Page

Kathleen Thompson Norris

To Emeline, wife of George Page, there came slowly, in her thirtieth year, a sullen conviction that life was monstrously unfair. From a resentful realization that she was not happy in her marriage, Em..

Her Husband's Purse

Helen Reimensnyder Martin

The Pennsylvania town of New Munich was electrified by the sudden and entirely unlooked-for announcement of the betrothal of Daniel Leitzel, Esquire; but his two maiden sisters with whom he lived, and..

Kennedy Square

Francis Hopkinson Smith

“Kennedy Square, in the late fifties, was a place of birds and trees and flowers; of rude stone benches, sagging arbors smothered in vines, and cool dirt paths bordered by sweet-smelling box. Giant ma..