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Ilman menestyksettä
Wilkie CollinsIlman menestyksettä is a Finnish work co-authored by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens...
Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft
Charlotte M. YongeOf 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 BangsIt 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 NorrisThe 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 NorrisTo 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 MartinThe 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..
A Day in Old Athens
William Stearns DavisThis little book tries to describe what an intelligent person would see and hear in ancient Athens, if by some legerdemain he were translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city un..