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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
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Edward Everett Hale
This is a collection of ten Christmas Stories, some of which have been published before. I have added a little essay, written on the occasio…
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome
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George Washington Greene
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59,…
The Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…
Old Hampshire Vignettes
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Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Lanoe Falconer is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. She …
Just Sweethearts; A Christmas Love Story
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Harry Stillwell Edwards
“Clearly he was one of those rare beings who can radiate energy standing still and convey the impression of impetuous force without motion, …
Abaft The Funnel
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Rudyard Kipling
"Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas." Thirty one early short stories by the master story…
Bernard Treves's Boots; A Novel Of The Secret Service
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Laurence Clarke
What has Manton gotten himself into? His impersonation has broader implications -- and more dangerous ones -- than he had imagined. (Summary…
Rada; A Belgian Christmas Eve
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Alfred Noyes
This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), publishe…
John Sherman and Dhoya
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William Butler Yeats
In 1891, Yeats published "John Sherman", a novella, and "Dhoya", a Celtic mythologic story. Ganconagh, Yeats’s nom de pl…
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
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James W. Schultz
James Willard Schultz, or Apikuni, (1859 – 1947) was a noted author, explorer, Glacier National Park guide, fur trader and historian of the …
Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska
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Rockwell Kent
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though a…
Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2)
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
This is the first of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park. (The other is e…
Tenting To-Night; A Chronicle Of Sport And Adventure In Glacier Park And The Ca…
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Mary Roberts Rinehart
This is the second of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park, and this book a…
The Bishop's Secret
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Fergus Hume
Bishop Pendle is the Church of England bishop in a small fictitious English cathedral town. Several years into his work, he receives a visit…
Wounds In The Rain; War Stories
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Stephen Crane
Eleven stories of war by the author of The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane was an American author. He is recognized by modern critics …
Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries
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Charles John Samuel Thompson
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially infor…
The Wheel of Time
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Henry James
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End
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Norman Duncan
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, esp…
Owen Wingrave
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Henry James
A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army.…
Collaboration
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Henry James
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…