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Originally titled "Enter D'Arcy," Wanted: A Husband is the name of the 1919 silent film based on this story.

Short story written by famous American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.

William Makepeace Thackeray's "John Lecch's Pictures of Life and Characters" focuses around his opinions of the works of English caricaturist and illustrator, John Leech (29 August 1817 - 29 October 1864).

They were very young, and possibly too amiable. Thaddeus was but twenty-four and Bessie twenty-two when they twain, made one, walked down the middle aisle of St. Peter's together. Everybody remarked how amiable she looked even then; not that a bride on her way out of church should look unamiable,...

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was an English novelist of the 19th century. He was famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair (1847), a panoramic portrait of English society. Thackeray began as a satirist and parodist, with a sneaking fondness for roguish upstarts like Becky...

Among the metal-persons of Phobos, robot B-12 held a special niche. He might not have been stronger, larger, faster than some ... but he could be devious ... and more important, he was that junkyard planetoid's only moonshiner.

An extravagant tale of political schemers. The hero, an Italian violinist, finds himself, after a phenomenal rise to success, placed in high society in the Russian court of Alexander III and used in a counter-plot to foil a design against the Czar's life. He succeeds and wins a charming russian princess.

Alexandre Dumas -- Mr. Stevenson's works -- Thomas Haynes Bayly -- Theodore de Banville -- Homer and the study of Greek -- The last fashionable novel -- Thackeray -- Dickens -- Adventures of Buccaneers -- The sagas -- Charles Kingsley -- Charles Lever: his books, adventures and misfortunes -- The...

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop. At the...

Oh, leave it to the bureaucrats and they'll figure out new ways to make you buy more and more.... But there was only one way the poor consumer could rise up in his wrath.

A fantastic mystery novel involving a practicing surgeon who is also a master criminal -- and head of an international band of outlaws!

One of Machen's best horror novels. A series of murders take place, but who or what is responsible?

Eric was the best robot they'd ever had--perfectly trained, ever thoughtful, a joy to own. Naturally they had to destroy him!

Short story written by famous American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne.