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To Stand, or Not to Stand

In The Three Clerks

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Anthony Trollope

The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…

16 - Chapter XVI - "It Is Altogether Untrue."

In Kept in the Dark

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Anthony Trollope

Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, a…

14 - Count Pateroff

In The Claverings

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Anthony Trollope

"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author T…

01 - Jean Bouchon

In The Book of Ghosts

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Sabine Baring-Gould

Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

The Story of Medhans Lea

In Ghosts, Being The Experiences of Flaxman Low

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Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard and Kate O'Brien Ryall Prichard

A collection of ghost stories featuring Flaxman Low, the first psychic detective of fiction. The stories were first written for Pearson's Ma…

Mrs. Blencarrow's Confession

In The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow

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Margaret O. Oliphant

The location is the English Lake District and the characters very ordinary people. Mrs. Blencarrow is a widow with five children and control…

The Cyclone

In When the World Shook

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H. Rider Haggard

A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with…

Chapter 12

In Percy Wynn, or Making a Boy of Him

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Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.

In this volume, which follows the author's popular book "Tom Playfair", a new boy is just arriving at St. Maure's boarding school.…

Cheating the Gallows

In Grotesques and Fantasies

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Israel Zangwill

A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, …

A Letter from Ethelred's Mamma

In Ethelred Preston; or, The Adventures of a Newcomer

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Francis J. Finn, S.J.

Ethelred Preston is a story for boys written by Fr. Finn, SJ. The hero, Ethelred, while on his way to college, meets Packy Jarloe, a peddler…