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*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Abraham Lincoln raved that this series of historical biographies gave him "just that knowledge of past men and events which I need. I have read them with the greatest interest. To them I am indebted...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Twenty-six essays in Notes on Life and Letters (1921) present a kaleidoscopic view of Joseph Conrad's literary views and interest in the events of his day, including the Titanic disaster and First World...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Fifteen year old Harry Gilbert worked in a grocery to support his widowed mother, but lost his job to the storekeeper's relative. After escaping a trick trap set by his tormentors, Harry discovers a tin...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: I WAS very unhappy, from a variety of causes, definable and undefinable. My chambermaid had been cross for a week, and, by talking to my cook, had made her dissatis-fied with her place. The mother of five little children, I felt that I had a weight of car

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Words for the Wise By Timothy Shay Arthur, 1851 row up, and bear for ever the marks of neglect and wrong." "Alice! Alice! for heaven's sake, do not talk in this way!" exclaimed the tailor,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Kentucky author James Lane Allen was one of the American South's foremost practitioners of the "local color" genre of realism. This collection brings together two of his novellas, both of which...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The book was first offered to Chattos in 1889, and rejected with a friendly warning that it could destroy Allens career. However, following the success of "The Woman Who Did," (John Lane, 1895)...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Well -- I failed to sell the Works, and that increased my discontent. I went through moods of cold unsociability, alternating with sudden flushes of curiosity, when I gloated over stray scraps of talk overheard...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: Excerpt from Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams, Founders Day, January 16, 1913, University of South Carolina To say that in life and in the order of life's events it is the...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: John turned a little to the left, going nearer to the window, where he could gain a better view of the Madonna, which he had heard so often was the most famous picture in the world. He was no technical...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: This is the story of how three brave American girls sacrificed the comforts and luxuries of home to go abroad and nurse the wounded soldiers of a foreign war. I wish I might have depicted more gently the...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: James contributed significantly to literary criticism, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest possible freedom in presenting their view of the world. James claimed that a text...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The Head of the House of Coombe is a 1922 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Head of the House of Coombe follows the relationships between a group of pre–World War One English nobles and commoners....