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Vendor: Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington
Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a Small House? Our story will, as its name imports, have its closest relations with those who lived in the less dignified domicile of the two; but it will...- $10.49
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Vendor: Charles James Lever
Nuts and Nutcrackers
If Providence, instead of a vagabond, had made me a justice of the peace, there is no species of penalty I would not have enforced against a class of offenders, upon whom it is the perverted taste of the day to bestow wealth, praise,...- $7.49
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Vendor: Irvin S. Cobb
Back Home
AFTER I came North to live it seemed to me, as probably it has seemed to many Southern born men and women that the Southerner of fiction as met with in the North was generally just that-fiction-and nothing else; that in the main he...- $7.49
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Vendor: William Dean Howells
The Minister's Charge; Or, The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker
On their way back to the farm-house where they were boarding, Sewell's wife reproached him for what she called his recklessness. "You had no right," she said, "to give the poor boy false hopes. You ought to have discouraged him-that would have been the...- $8.49
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Vendor: Horatio Alger
The Telegraph Boy
The "Telegraph Boy" completes the series of sketches of street-life in New York inaugurated eleven years since by the publication of "Ragged Dick." The author has reason to feel gratified by the warm reception accorded by the public to these pictures of humble life...- $6.99
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Vendor: Horatio Alger
Wait and Hope; Or, A Plucky Boy's Luck
Five o'clock sounded from the church clock, and straightway the streets of Milltown were filled with men, women, and children issuing from the great brick factories huddled together at one end of the town. Among these, two boys waked in company, James Watson and...- $6.99
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Vendor: Edna Ferber
Fanny Herself
It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presented as the pivot about whom the plot...- $7.49
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Vendor: Charlotte M. Yonge
Love and Life: An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume
The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded-a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the...- $6.99
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Vendor: Charlotte M. Yonge
Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative
I write this by desire of my brothers and sisters, that if any reports of our strange family history should come down to after generations the thing may be properly understood. The old times at Trevorsham seem to me so remote, that I can...- $6.99
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
The Black Robe
THE doctors could do no more for the Dowager Lady Berrick. When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at...- $6.99
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Vendor: Amy Lowell
Men, Women and Ghosts
I walk down the garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jewelled fan, I too am a rare Pattern. As I wander...- $7.49
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Vendor: Wilkie Collins
Antonina; Or, The Fall of Rome
The mountains forming the range of Alps which border on the north-eastern confines of Italy, were, in the autumn of the year 408, already furrowed in numerous directions by the tracks of the invading forces of those northern nations generally comprised under the appellation...- $7.49
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Vendor: Daniel Defoe
From London to Land's End
At the end of this book there are a couple of letters from a volume of the "Travels in England" which were not by Defoe, although resembling Defoe's work so much in form and title, and so near to it in date of publication,...- $6.99
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Vendor: Horatio Alger
Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes
"John, saddle my horse, and bring him around to the door." The speaker was a boy of fifteen, handsomely dressed, and, to judge from his air and tone, a person of considerable consequence, in his own opinion, at least. The person addressed was employed...- $6.99
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Vendor: George Lewis Prentiss
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
Mrs. Prentiss was fortunate in the place of her birth. She first saw the light at Portland, Maine. Maine was then a district of Massachusetts, and Portland was its chief town and seaport, distinguished for beauty of situation, enterprise, intelligence, social refinement and all...- $9.49
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Vendor: William Elliot Griffis
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
Long ago, in Dutch Fairy Land, there lived a young mermaid who was very proud of her good looks. She was one of a family of mere or lake folks dwelling not far from the sea. Her home was a great pool of water...- $6.99
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Vendor: Olive Schreiner
Woman and Labour
It is necessary to say a few words to explain this book. The original title of the book was "Musings on Woman and Labour." It is, what its name implies, a collection of musings on some of the points connected with woman's work. In...- $6.99
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Vendor: Olive Schreiner
Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
It was a dark night; a chill breath was coming from the east; not enough to disturb the blaze of Trooper Peter Halket's fire, yet enough to make it quiver. He sat alone beside it on the top of a kopje. All about was...- $6.99
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Vendor: A. A. Milne
The Sunny Side
My publisher wants me to apologize for-"introduce" was the kindly word he used-this collection of articles and verses from Punch. I do so with pleasure. Among the many interests of a long and varied career- No, I don't think I shall begin like that....- $7.49
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Vendor: Stephen Leacock
Frenzied Fiction
In many people the very name "Spy" excites a shudder of apprehension; we Spies, in fact, get quite used to being shuddered at. None of us Spies mind it at all. Whenever I enter a hotel and register myself as a Spy I am...- $6.99
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Vendor: Charlotte M. Brame
Love Works Wonders
It was a strange place for an intelligence office, yet Madame Selini evidently knew what she was doing when she established her office in an aristocratic neighborhood, and actually next door to the family mansion of the Countess Dowager of Barewood. The worthy countess...- $7.49
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Vendor: Bernard Shaw
Maxims for Revolutionists
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good. Do not love your neighbor as yourself. If you are on...- $6.99
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Vendor: Bernard Shaw
Cashel Byron's Profession
Moncrief House, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon. One wet spring afternoon the sky was full...- $7.49
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Vendor: Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in Willows
First published in 1908, The Wind in the Willows is a literary classic which details a fantasy-esque adventure of four anthropomorphic animals (Toad, Rat, Badger and Mole) as they travel throughout their forest home. It is a classic novel that expertly details many large...- $8.75
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Vendor: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a short story that, despite its length, is largely regarded as one of the most important feminist texts ever written. The story itself follows a woman's slow descent into madness when she and her husband spend...- $6.95
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Vendor: Edward Thomas
Last Poems
I NEVER saw that land before, And now can never see it again; Yet, as if by acquaintance hoar Endeared, by gladness and by pain, Great was the affection that I boreAuthor: Edward ThomasISBN-10: 1514319470ISBN-13: 9781514319475Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/11/2015Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight:...- $6.99
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Vendor: John Burroughs
My Boyhood
In the beginning, at least, Father wrote these sketches of his boyhood and early farm life as a matter of self-defense: I had made a determined attempt to write them and when I did this I was treading on what was to him more...- $6.99
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Vendor: George MacDonald
There & Back
It would be but stirring a muddy pool to inquire-not what motives induced, but what forces compelled sir Wilton Lestrange to marry a woman nobody knew. It is enough to say that these forces were mainly ignoble, as manifested by their intermittent character and...- $7.99
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Vendor: James Stephens
Irish Fairy Tales
Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste. News had come to him in Donegal that there were yet people in his own province who believed in gods that he did not approve of, and the gods that we do...- $7.49
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Vendor: George MacDonald
The Marquis of Lossie
It was one of those exquisite days that come in every winter, in which it seems no longer the dead body, but the lovely ghost of summer. Such a day bears to its sister of the happier time something of the relation the marble...- $7.49
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Vendor: George MacDonald
Weighed and Wanting
It was a gray, windy noon in the beginning of autumn. The sky and the sea were almost of the same color, and that not a beautiful one. The edge of the horizon where they met was an edge no more, but a bar...- $7.49
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Vendor: Ezra Pound
Instigations
The time when the intellectual affairs of America could be conducted on a monolingual basis is over. It has been irksome for long. The intellectual life of London is dependent on people who understand the French language about as well as their own. America's...- $7.49
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Vendor: Susan Coolidge
Clover
t was one of those afternoons in late April which are as mild and balmy as any June day. The air was full of the chirps and twitters of nest-building birds, and of sweet indefinable odors from half-developed leaf-buds and cherry and pear blossoms....- $6.99
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Vendor: Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Buster Bear
Buster Bear yawned as he lay on his comfortable bed of leaves and watched the first early morning sunbeams creeping through the Green Forest to chase out the Black Shadows. Once more he yawned, and slowly got to his feet and shook himself. Then...- $6.99
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Vendor: George MacDonald
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
Before I begin to tell you some of the things I have seen and heard, in both of which I have had to take a share, now from the compulsion of my office, now from the leading of my own heart, and now from...- $7.49
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Vendor: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The Darling and Other Stories
OLENKA, the daughter of the retired collegiate assessor, Plemyanniakov, was sitting in her back porch, lost in thought. It was hot, the flies were persistent and teasing, and it was pleasant to reflect that it would soon be evening. Dark rainclouds were gathering from...- $7.49
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Vendor: E. E. Cummings
The Enormous Room
He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation. He was entombed by the French Government. It took the better part of three months to find him and bring him back to life-with the help...- $7.49
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Vendor: H. Rider Haggard
Nada the Lily
For I will call you by the name that for fifty years has been honoured by every tribe between Zambesi and Cape Agulbas, -I greet you Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men and matters of which you know...- $6.99
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Love Eternal
More than thirty years ago two atoms of the eternal Energy sped forth from the heart of it which we call God, and incarnated themselves in the human shapes that were destined to hold them for a while, as vases hold perfumes, or goblets...- $7.49
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Colonel Quaritch, V.C.
There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed. To take the instance of a face-we may never see...- $6.99
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Vendor: Ambrose Bierce
The Fiend's Delight
The atrocities constituting this "cold collation" of diabolisms are taken mainly from various Californian journals. They are cast in the American language, and liberally enriched with unintelligibility. If they shall prove incomprehensible on this side of the Atlantic, the reader can pass to the...- $6.99
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Vendor: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais
Adonais is the first writing by Shelley which has been included in the Clarendon Press Series. It is a poem of convenient length for such a purpose, being neither short nor decidedly long; and-leaving out of count some of the short poems-is the one...- $6.99
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Vendor: Henry James
The Wings of the Dove, Volume 2 of 2
"I say, you know, Kate-you did stay " had been Merton Densher's punctual remark on their adventure after they had, as it were, got out of it; an observation which she not less promptly, on her side, let him see that she forgave in...- $7.99
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Vendor: James Anthony Froude
The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon
The mythic element cannot be eliminated out of history. Men who play leading parts on the world's stage gather about them the admiration of friends and the animosity of disappointed rivals or political enemies. The atmosphere becomes charged with legends of what they have...- $7.49
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Vendor: Karl Marx
Selected Essays
The present volume consists of a translation of some of Karl Marx's principal writings during the six years 1844-1850. In 1843 Marx was twenty-five years old. He had just married, apparently on the strength of the modest salary he was to receive for editing,...- $6.99
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Vendor: Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World
MOTHER, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark 1] at the parting of your hair, the __sari__ 2] which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace. They came at...- $7.49
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Vendor: Walter Scott
The Antiquary, Complete
The present work completes a series of fictitious narratives, intended to illustrate the manners of Scotland at three different periods. Waverley embraced the age of our fathers, Guy Mannering that of our own youth, and the Antiquary refers to the last ten years of...- $8.49
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Vendor: Rudyard Kipling
Plain Tales from the Hills
She was the daughter of Sonoo, a Hill-man, and Jadeh his wife. One year their maize failed, and two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just above the Sutlej Valley on the Kotgarth side; so, next season, they turned Christian, and brought...- $7.49
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Vendor: John Milton
Paradise Regained
I, WHO erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By one man's firm obedience fully tried Through all temptation, and the Tempter foiled In all his wiles, defeated and repulsed, And Eden raised in...- $6.99
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Vendor: Robert Boyle
The Sceptical Chymist
TO give the Reader an account, Why the following Treatise is suffer'd to pass abroad so maim'd and imperfect, I must inform him that 'tis now long since, that to gratify an ingenious Gentleman, I set down some of the Reasons that kept me...- $7.49
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