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Cambridge Neighbors

From 'Literary Friends and Acquaintances'

by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...
Cover of The Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake
by Jane L. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

I told you we were going to be happy here, didn't I, Zara? The speaker was Dolly Ransom, a black-haired, mischievous Wood Gatherer of the Camp Fire Girls, a member of the Manasquan Camp Fire, the Guardian of which was Miss Eleanor Mercer, or Wanaka, as she was known in the ceremonial camp fires that...
Cover of Miss Minerva and William Green Hill
by Frances Boyd Calhoun
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

What a wonderful funny book about a little boy growing up in Tennessee. Frances Calhoun wrote in the conversational southern language of the early 20th century. Episodes include: "The Rabbit's Left Hind Foot", "A Green Eyed Billy" and, "Education and Its Perils." After the author's death, later books in this series were written by Emma Sampson.
Cover of The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm
by Jane L. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

Published in 1914, The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm, or Bessie King's New Chum is the 20th book written in The Camp Fire Girls series.
Cover of Better than Play
by Mabel Quiller-Couch
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

Mabel Quiller-Couch (1866-1924) was a Cornish writer. She was the the sister of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, and her sister Lilian M. Quiller- Couch was an author as well. She wrote Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall with her sister in 1894. Other works include Martha's Trial (1895), One Good...
Cover of Dick and Brownie
by Mabel Quiller-Couch
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

The old horse standing patiently by, with drooping head and hopeless, patient eyes, looked starved and weak. His poor body was so thin that the bones seemed ready to push through the skin, on which showed the marks of the blows he had received that morning. Nearby was Dick, the dog, as thin as the...
Cover of The Making of Mona
by Mabel Quiller-Couch
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

Mabel Quiller-Couch (1866-1924) was a Cornish writer. She was the the sister of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, and her sister Lilian M. Quiller- Couch was an author as well. She wrote Ancient and Holy Wells of Cornwall with her sister in 1894. Other works include Martha's Trial (1895), One Good...
Cover of Brink of Madness
by Walter J. Sheldon
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

C.I.B. Agent Pell used his head, even if he did rely on hunches more than on the computer. In fact, when the game got rough, he found that to use his head, he first had to keep it....
Cover of The Camp Fire Girls in the Woods
by Jane L. Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

""Now then, you, Bessie, quit your loafin' and get them dishes washed! An' then you can go out and chop me some wood for the kitchen fire!" The voice was that of a slatternly woman of middle age, thin and complaining. She had come suddenly into the kitchen of the Hoover farmhouse and surprised Bessie King as the girl sat resting for a moment and reading."
Cover of Masters of None
by Lloyd Neil Goble
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014

The advantages of specialization are so obvious that, today, we don't even know how to recognize a competent syncretist!
Cover of The Magic Nuts
by Molesworth
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013

The way was long. Lay of the Last Minstrel. Little Leonore pressed her face against the window of the railway carriage and tried hard to see out. But it was no use. It all looked so dark and black, all the darker and blacker for the glimmer of the rain-drops trickling down thickly outside, and reflecting...
Cover of The Quality of Mercy
by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

"The exoneration fo the individual and the attribution of his misdeeds to the social order, an order which individual effort seems powerless to better, is the underlying purpose of The Quality of Mercy."--William Dean Howells: a critical study by Delmar Gross Cooke.
Cover of Show Business
by Lyle G. Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

Here's the behind-the-scenes lowdown on Luna City life and a promoter of Martian dancing girls, vaudeville, and—other things. But remember: stop us if you've heard this one!
Cover of The Daughter of the Storage

The Daughter of the Storage

And Other Things in Prose and Verse

by William Dean Howells
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

The daughter of the storage -- A presentiment -- Captain Dunlevy's last trip -- The return to favor -- Somebody's mother -- The face at the window -- An experience -- The boarders -- Breakfast is my best meal -- The mother-bird -- The amigo -- Black Cross farm -- The critical book-store -- A feast...
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