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The Stark Munro Letters

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…

An Amiable Charlatan

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E. Phillips Oppenheim


An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…

Orientations

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W. Somerset Maugham


This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…

Spun from Fact

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Pansy


As the title suggests, this story is from real events. As the author explains in the last chapter, all of the events are true; the conversat…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083

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Various


“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

The Uncalled

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…

Penelope's English Experiences

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Kate Douglas Wiggin


Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…

Her Dark Inheritance

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Mrs. E. Burke Collins


A story of obsessive love and desperation that hid many secrets. This cliffhanger will keep you guessing until the very end. Summary by Shar…

Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening

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Pansy


Five stories with the general themes of foreign missions, money, and hypocrisy.Mrs. Harry Harper's Awakening: A young wife in a new city is …

Idle Tales

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Charlotte Riddell


These stories are quite captivating hovering between mysteries & ghostly imaginings. The author was an Irish-born lady that seemed to li…

A Battle of the Books

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Gail Hamilton


"When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for an author to dissolve the bands which have connected him with his publis…

Helen in the Editor's Chair

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Ruthe S. Wheeler


After her father, Hugh Blair, falls ill from exhaustion as editor of the town newspaper, The Rolfe Herald, and leaves for a rest cure in the…

Heroines of Fiction

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William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

The Flirt

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Booth Tarkington


Laura and Cora Madison and their younger brother Hedrick live with their parents in a Midwestern American town that is fairly bursting with …

The Position of Peggy Harper

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Leonard Merrick


Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit…

The Crimson Thread

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Roy J. Snell


Lucile has a job in a department store book department for the holiday season before she returns to college for the next term. What could ha…

A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories

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Caroline Ticknor


This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society…

English Literature for Boys and Girls

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall


"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …

Nelly Channell

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Sarah Doudney


Another fascinating book by the author of A Vanished Hand. Rhoda returns home after the death of her employer to find out that her cousin He…

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