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There are numerous character in this book but what most fascinating is the life of Benjamin Bradford and his Aunt Jane. Benjamin has a little earnings that worries him how they would survived but his motto wait and hope help him overcome this struggle. We are reminded that we should hope and wait for there is hope and willingness to wait, all things will fall to its rightful place.

That is the City Hall over there, Edgar." The speaker was a man of middle age, with a thin face and a nose like a Hawk. He was well dressed, and across his vest was visible a showy gold chain with a cameo charm attached to it. (Excerpt)

Horatio Alger, Jr.; January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty....

Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant; (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents. Guy De Maupassant wrote some of the most twisted and freaky short stories of his day. This is Volume 1 of 13, containing 12 of his best stories. (Excerpt from Wikipedia)

In addition to The Outcasts, this book includes Gorky’s stories Waiting for the Ferry and The Affair of the Clasps. Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) was one of the greatest Russian writers. He inherited the best traditions of 19th century classical Russian literat

The opening passage of "Tarzan and the Tarzan Twins, with Jad-bal-ja, the Golden Lion" specifies that its events occur immediately after those of "The Tarzan Twins." In relation to other Tarzan stories, the two parts of the Tarzan Twins tale presumably fall between Tarzan and the Ant Men and Tarzan,...

A fascinating account of the personal experiences of various cases undertaken by 19th century English lawyer Samuel Warren. Excerpt: Something more than half a century ago, a person, in going along Holborn, might have seen, near the corner of one of the thoroughfares which diverge towards Russell...

Excerpt from “When Dreams Come True”: “The point where they halted commanded a sweeping view of the surrounding country. Just opposite, some five leagues distant, on the farther side of the valley which lay below them, towered the sharp ragged crest of the Mexican Sierras; their sides and foothills...

Excerpt: “It was Saturday night at the Rectory, and the Vereker family—"those absurdly handsome Rectory children," as old Lady Curlew, of Hainings, invariably called them—sat round the dining-room table playing "Happy Families." The rules which govern this absorbing pastime...

A series of sketches which the humorist, Ian Hay, has been publishing in Blackwood's under the above title, has more than anecdotal interest to those who can see In the boy the father of the man. Mr. Hay expresses the dominant quality as a dislike for mental cleverness coupled with "worship of force of character."

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. “The Parasite” is a novel released in 1894 by Sir...

Excerpt: "It may well and fittingly be complained that of late years we English folk have shown an unpardonable spirit of curiosity about things which do not concern us. We have brought into being more than one periodical publication full of gossip about the private life and affairs of folk of...

"Bears And Dacoits A Tale of the Ghauts" is a short story by G.A. Henty and it takes place in India. The author writes about his adventures in the 15th regiment in the first person style.

On the shores of Provence, this intriguing story of the Des Anbiez Family will surprise you with every page. Among the descriptions of the Provence Traditions and religious meanings of different holidays, as observed by Provencal nobility and peasantry in the middle of the 1600's, you will find a story of Pirates, Murders, Deceptions, Love.(Goodreads)