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Vendor: O. Henry
Cabbages and Kings
A series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background...- $9.73
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Finn The Wolfhound
For a man whose thirtieth year was still not far behind him, the man's face was over careworn. It suggested that he felt life's difficulties more keenly than a man should at that age. But it may have been that this was a necessary...- $7.49
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Vendor: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories
We all settled down in a circle and our good friend Alexandr Vassilyevitch Ridel (his surname was German but he was Russian to the marrow of his bones) began as follows: I am going to tell you a story, friends, of something that happened...- $6.99
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The Jew and Other Stories
In studying the Russian novel it is amusing to note the childish attitude of certain English men of letters to the novel in general, their depreciation of its influence and of the public's 'inordinate' love of fiction. Many men of letters to-day look on...- $7.49
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Vendor: Constance Garnett
A Gentle Spirit (annotated)
A Gentle Spirit is a classic short story by the great Russian author, Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Oh, while she is still here, it is still all right; I go up and look at her every minute; but tomorrow they will take her away - and...- $5.75
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Vendor: Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bront , Emily BrontAuthor: Emily Bronte, Charlotte BronteISBN-10: 1518793061ISBN-13: 9781518793066Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/11/2015Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.58d- $11.99
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In Ghostly Japan
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett was a New England writer best known for realistic depictions of 19th century New England. She was critically acclaimed in her time, and this novel is one of the works of hers that helped her become known for "literary regionalism."Author: Sarah...- $5.49
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A Young Mutineer
The village choir were practicing in the church-their voices, somewhat harsh and uncultivated, were sending forth volumes of sound into the summer air. The church doors were thrown open, and a young man dressed in cricketing-flannels was leaning against the porch. He was tall,...- $6.99
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The Time of Roses
It was on a summer's evening early in the month of August that the little Mummy was once again seen on the platform at Dawlish. She looked now very much like she did when we saw her of yore-slightly broadened, it is true, by...- $7.49
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A Master of Mysteries
One day in late September I received the following letter from my lawyer: - "My Dear Bell, - "I shall esteem it a favour if you can make it convenient to call upon me at ten o'clock to-morrow morning on a matter of extreme...- $6.99
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Vendor: Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories
The doctor has just left me. At last I have got at something definite For all his cunning, he had to speak out at last. Yes, I am soon, very soon, to die. The frozen rivers will break up, and with the last snow...- $6.99
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Vendor: Edward Everett Hale
The Man Without a Country and Other Tales
This story was written in the summer of 1863, as a contribution, however humble, towards the formation of a just and true national sentiment, or sentiment of love to the nation. It was at the time when Mr. Vallandigham had been sent across the...- $7.49
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Vendor: D. H. Lawrence
England, My England
The lull continued. Then suddenly came sharp orders, and a new direction of the guns, and an intense, exciting activity. Yet at the center the soul remained dark and aloof, alone. But even so, it was the soul that heard the new sound: the...- $10.38
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Vendor: Winston Stokes
The Story of Hiawatha
LONG ago, when our cities were pleasant woodlands and the white man was far beyond the seas, the great Manito, God of all the Indians, descended to the earth. From the red crags of the Great Red Pipestone Quarry he gazed upon the country...- $7.49
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Vendor: E. T. a. Hoffmann
Weird Tales, Complete
Councillor Krespel was one of the strangest, oddest men I ever met with in my life. When I went to live in H-- for a time the whole town was full of talk about him, as he happened to be just then in the...- $8.99
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The Story of Chautauqua
An ancient writer-I forget his name-declared that in one of the city-states of Greece there was the rule that when any citizen proposed a new law or the repeal of an old one, he should come to the popular assembly with a rope around...- $7.49
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Vendor: W. Somerset Maugham
The Making of a Saint
THESE are the memoirs of the Beato Giuliano, brother of the Order of St Francis of Assisi, known in his worldly life as Filippo Brandolini; of which family I, Giulo Brandolini, am the last descendant. On the death of Fra Giuliano the manuscript was...- $7.49
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Orientations
Xiormonez is the most inaccessible place in Spain. Only one train arrives there in the course of the day, and that arrives at two o'clock in the morning; only one train leaves it, and that starts an hour before sunrise. No one has ever...- $6.99
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Vendor: Honore De Balzac
Lost Illusions
The longest, without exception, of Balzac's books, and one which contains hardly any passage that is not very nearly of his best, Illusions Perdues suffers, I think, a little in point of composition from the mixture of the Angouleme scenes of its first and...- $9.99
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Gobseck
It was one o'clock in the morning, during the winter of 1829-30, but in the Vicomtesse de Grandlieu's salon two persons stayed on who did not belong to her family circle. A young and good-looking man heard the clock strike, and took his leave....- $6.99
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Vendor: Marie Belloc Lowndes
The Lodger
Maggie Wilson was only thirty-three, but life in the teeming streets of Walworth was not that easy in 1908 - not if you were a widow with four young daughters. It was pretty much a hand-to-mouth existence and without the lodger Maggie really wouldn't...- $11.53
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Vendor: George Manville Fenn
The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
"Steady there Stop Hold hard " "What's the matter, Mr Dale?" "Matter, Saxe, my boy? Well, this. I undertook to take you back to your father and mother some day, sound in wind and limb; but if you begin like that, the trip's over,...- $7.49
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Vendor: William Le Queux
The Zeppelin Destroyer: Being some Chapters of Secret History
"To-morrow? To-morrow, my dear Claude Why, there may not be a to-morrow for you-or for me, when it comes to that-eh?" "Yes. You're quite right, old son," was my cheerful reply. "I'm quite aware that these experiments are confoundedly dangerous-and, besides, there are nasty...- $6.99
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Vendor: Ayn Rand
Anthem, The Original Dystopian Novel
It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were speaking alone to...- $6.99
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Vendor: Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Virginia
Toward the close of a May afternoon in the year 1884, Miss Priscilla Batte, having learned by heart the lesson in physical geography she would teach her senior class on the morrow, stood feeding her canary on the little square porch of the Dinwiddie...- $7.49
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Vendor: Ellen Glasgow
Life and Gabriella: The Story of a Woman's Courage
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour. On the window-sill, midway between the white curtains, a pot of blue hyacinths stood in a cracked...- $7.49
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Vendor: Susan Warner
Queechy
A single cloud on a sunny day When all the rest of heaven is clear, A frown upon the atmosphere, That hath no business to appear, When skies are blue and earth is gay. Byron. Come, dear grandpa -the old mare and the wagon...- $11.99
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Vendor: Susan Warner
Diana
I am thinking of a little brown house, somewhere in the wilds of New England. I wish I could make my readers see it as it was, one June afternoon some years ago. Not for anything very remarkable about it; there are thousands of...- $7.49
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Vendor: W. B. Yeats
Mosada: A dramatic poem
Excerpt from Mosada: A Dramatic Poem "And my Lord Cardinal hath had strange days in his youth." Extract from a Memoir of the Fifteenth Century. Mosada, ... A Moorish Lady.Ebremar, ... A Monk.Cola, ... A Lame Boy. Monks and Inquisitors. Scene I. A Little...- $6.99
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Vendor: Upton Sinclair
The Metropolis
"Return at ten-thirty," the General said to his chauffeur, and then they entered the corridor of the hotel. Montague gazed about him, and found himself trembling just a little with anticipation. It was not the magnificence of the place. The quiet uptown hotel would...- $7.99
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Vendor: Mrs Oliphant
The House on the Moor
IN a gloomy room, looking out through one narrow window upon a moor, two young people together, and yet alone, consumed the dreary hours of a February afternoon. The scene within doors exhibited scarcely less monotony and dreariness than did the moor without, which...- $7.49
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Vendor: Marie Conway Oemler
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
"Now there was my cousin Eliza," Miss Sally Ruth Dexter once said to me, "who was forced to make her home for thirty years in Vienna She married an attach of the Austrian legation, you know; met him while she was visiting in Washington,...- $8.49
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Vendor: Charles King
From School to Battle-field: A Story of the War Days
"If there's anything I hate more than a rainy Saturday, call me a tadpole " said the taller of two boys who, with their chins on their arms and their arms on the top of the window-sash, were gazing gloomily out over a dripping...- $7.49
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Vendor: E. F. Benson
The Blotting Book
Mrs. Assheton's house in Sussex Square, Brighton, was appointed with that finish of smooth stateliness which robs stateliness of its formality, and conceals the amount of trouble and personal attention which has, originally in any case, been spent on the production of the smoothness....- $6.99
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Vendor: Robert Nathan
Autumn
On Sunday the church bells of Hillsboro rang out across the ripening fields with a grave and holy sound, and again at evening knocked faintly, with quiet sorrow, at doors where children watched for the first star, to make their wishes. Night came, and...- $6.99
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Vendor: Robert Hamill Nassau
Fetichism in West Africa
On the 2d of July, 1861, I sailed from New York City on a little brig, the "Ocean Eagle," with destination to the island of Corisco, near the equator, on the West Coast of Africa. My first introduction to the natives of Africa was...- $7.49
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Vendor: Meredith Nicholson
A Hoosier Chronicle
Sylvia was reading in her grandfather's library when the bell tinkled. Professor Kelton had few callers, and as there was never any certainty that the maid-of-all-work would trouble herself to answer, Sylvia put down her book and went to the door. Very likely it...- $7.49
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Vendor: George Barr McCutcheon
Her Weight in Gold
Well the question is: how much does she weigh?" asked Eddie Ten Eyck with satirical good humour. His somewhat flippant inquiry followed the heated remark of General Horatio Gamble, who, in desperation, had declared that his step-daughter, Martha, was worth her weight in gold.Author:...- $6.99
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Windsor Castle: Unabridged edition
Windsor Castle is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1842. It is a historical romance with gothic elements. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During...- $10.50
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The Root of All Evil
Half-way along the one straggling street of Savilestowe a narrow lane suddenly opened out between the cottages and turned abruptly towards the uplands which rose on the northern edge of the village. Its first course lay between high grey walls, overhung with ivy and...- $7.49
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The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts
The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent MillayAuthor: Edna St Vincent MillayISBN-10: 151763640XISBN-13: 9781517636401Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/13/2015Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d- $6.99
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The Lion and the Unicorn
Prentiss had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course, turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss was a Florist to the Queen, he placed a lion and...- $6.99
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Vendor: Henry Seton Merriman
Barlasch of the Guard
Il faut devoir lever les yeux pour regarder ce qu'on aime. A few children had congregated on the steps of the Marienkirche at Dantzig, because the door stood open. The verger, old Peter Koch-on week days a locksmith-had told them that nothing was going...- $7.49
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A Christmas Garland
It was with the sense of a, for him, very memorable something that he peered now into the immediate future, and tried, not without compunction, to take that period up where he had, prospectively, left it. But just where the deuce had he left...- $6.99
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Whosoever Shall Offend
When the widow of Martino Consalvi married young Corbario, people shook their heads and said that she was making a great mistake. Consalvi had been dead a good many years, but as yet no one had thought it was time to say that his...- $7.99
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An American Politician
Mrs. Sam Wyndham was generally at home after five o'clock. The established custom whereby the ladies who live in Beacon Street all receive their friends on Monday afternoon did not seem to her satisfactory. She was willing to conform to the practice, but she...- $7.49
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The Little City of Hope: A Christmas Story
"Hope is very cheap. There's always plenty of it about." "Fortunately for poor men. Good morning." With this mild retort and civil salutation John Henry Overholt rose and went towards the door, quite forgetting to shake hands with Mr. Burnside, though the latter made...- $6.99
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Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1
The story of Rome is the most splendid romance in all history. A few shepherds tend their flocks among volcanic hills, listening by day and night to the awful warnings of the subterranean voice, -born in danger, reared in peril, living their lives under...- $7.49
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Marietta: A Maid of Venice
Very little was known about George, the Dalmatian, and the servants in the house of Angelo Beroviero, as well as the workmen of the latter's glass furnace, called him Zorzi, distrusted him, suggested that he was probably a heretic, and did not hide their...- $6.99
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