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"A dauntless hero will do whatever it takes to win the heart of his bride in Mary Johnston's bestselling historical adventure set in colonial Jamestown Captain Percy is the embodiment of bravery. At the suggestion of a friend, he boards a ship to America to stake his claim in the New World--and perhaps even meet the woman of his dreams. Meanwhile, eligible women are setting sail to the very same place on "bride ships" in order to find husbands and...
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Set against the backdrop of early 19th-century England, the novel opens with the Bennet family, a respectable yet financially modest clan residing in the rural town of Longbourn. The Bennets consist of the witty and sharp-minded Mr. Bennet, his good-natured but sometimes frivolous wife Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters-Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. The crux of the story unfolds with the arrival of the eligible and wealthy bachelor Mr....
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Die Handlung des Romans ist insofern autobiografisch, als Goethe hier seine platonische Beziehung zu der bereits verlobten Charlotte Buff literarisch verarbeitete. Das Motiv für den tragischen Ausgang dieser Liebe, die Selbsttötung Werthers, lieferte Goethe der Suizid seines Freundes Karl Wilhelm Jerusalem, Gesandtschaftssekretär in Wetzlar. Der hatte sich in eine verheiratete Frau verliebt, die für ihn unerreichbar blieb. Die literarische
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C'est un vieux rêve : conserver un homme en le desséchant , un savant allemand le réalise aux dépens d'un colonel français de Napoléon. Malentendus amusants, reflet de la société bourgeoise du Second Empire, et un savoureux raccourci d'Histoire, interpolant premier et second Empire, ère de l'oncle et règne du neveu...
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Mr. Burton Crane (the book says he is under 30) rents a house from "one of the most aristocratic families south of the Mason and Dixon's", with the understanding that it comes complete with servants. The butler seems young for his job but looks like he will function very well. The cook is beautiful and cooks like a dream. The maid is rather sullen and ungracious. And the 'Useful Boy' is inclined to be impertinent. Within a few days Burton moves into...
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"A young millionaire named Geoffrey Holland, concerned about a recent string of thefts in the locale, visits his country home in Hillsborough and surprises a burglar, in the form of his old schoolmate, Billy McVay. McVay convinces him to set out, in the midst of a blizzard, to rescue his sister, living nearby in a rundown shack, and wholly ignorant of his (McVay's) career as a thief. Against his better judgement, Holland agrees, and finds himself...
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Charles Scribner's Sons
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2023
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William Wymark Jacobs (8 September 1863 – 1 September 1943) was an English author of short fiction and drama. His best remembered story is "The Monkey's Paw". He was born in Wapping, London, on 8 September 1863, the son of William Gage Jacobs and his wife Sophia, née Wymark. His father ran the South Devon wharf at Lower East. William and his siblings were still young when their mother died. Their father then married his housekeeper and had seven...
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Project Gutenberg
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2023
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (popularly known as Fanny Hill, an anglicisation of the Latin mons veneris, mound of Venus) is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London, it is considered "the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel". It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history....
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Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
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2023
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What is handsome but middle-class Braden Thorpe, M.D., to do? His beloved Anne is betrothed to none other than his wealthy grandfather, nearly four times her own age, and Anne's conniving mother is determined that the match will succeed. Schemes and counter-schemes abound in this Edwardian drama played out among the well-bred and well-heeled of New York high society. Author George Barr McCutcheon (1866– 1928) was an American popular novelist and...
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Little, Brown, and Company
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2023
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Belle K. Maniates (September 1861 – November 13, 1931) was an American novelist and short story writer. At least three silent films were made based on works by Maniates: Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (1918), Mirandy Smiles (1918), and Penny of Top Hill Trail (1921).
11) Athalie
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D. Appleton and Company
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2023
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Robert William Chambers (1865–1933) was an American artist and prolific writer of mystery, thriller and espionage fiction. 'Athalie' tells the story of clairvoyant Athalie Greensleeve and her protracted romance with Clive Bailey, Jr. To live the lives they desire, the lovers defy the conventional social norms of the time; the book thus comprises scathing condemnation of them. [Source: Wikipedia, book]
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James R. Osgood and Company
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2023
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Not the intrinsic merits of this story embolden me to inscribe it to you, my dear friend, but the fact that you, more than any other man, are responsible for its writing. Your advice and encouragement first led me to book-making; so it is only fair that you should partake of whatever obloquy (or honor) the practice may bring upon me.
The ensuing pages may incline you to suspect their author of a repugnance to unvarnished truth; but,—without prejudice...
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Hodder and Stoughton Limited
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2023
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Philippa Harford breathed a sigh of relief at finding herself alone in her compartment, and arranging her belongings round her with the method of an experienced traveller, she settled herself in a corner seat and took up her book. She did not read for long, however, for in a few moments her eyes wandered to the window and there fixed themselves on the swiftly passing landscape. She let her hands fall into her lap and sat thinking. - from chapter 1...
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A.L. Burt Company
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2023
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Jackson Gregory (1882–1943) was an American teacher, journalist, and prolific writer of westerns and detective stories. This early western novel tells the story of “Greek” Conniston, the spoiled scion of a wealthy Eastern family whose handicap is just that: he’s the son of a multi-millionaire. At the outset of the story he finds himself penniless in a small town in the desert West. Can he overcome the many challenges he faces--including his...
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2023
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"When Susannah and I were lovers, the fact that she was married seemed irrelevant to me, except it limited our being together. I knew she could not love me any more than she did, husband or no husband, that he could not matter in the same way, that if she made love to David in the morning and me at noon it subtracted nothing from the truth of our love. She did do that, at least once; she told me so. But not to make me jealous, or threaten
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H. Holt and Co.
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2023
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"Two American girls, sojourning with their father at a little Dutch watering place, unintentionally become involved in a diplomatic intrigue which threatens the peace of Europe. A situation, humorous at first, rapidly becomes dramatic, and moves on to a breathless climax. There is also an absorbing, moving love story, in which Cupid, with the aid of American good looks, rules the destinies of England and Germany, and decides the question of the succession...
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The Colonial Press
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2023
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It was the eve of St. John in the year of our Lord Nine Hundred Thirty-Five.
High on the cypress-clad hills of the Eternal City the evening sun had flamed valediction, and the last lights of the dying day were fading away on the waves of the Tiber whose changeless tide has rolled down through centuries of victory and defeat, of pride and shame, of glory and disgrace.
The purple dusk began to weave its phantom veil over the ancient capital of the...
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A. L. Burt Company
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2023
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English
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There was a young man in Monte Carlo. He had come in a motor car, and he had come a long way, but he hardly knew why he had come. He hardly knew in these days why he did anything. But then, one must do something.
It would be Christmas soon, and he thought that he would rather get it over on the Riviera than anywhere else, because the blue and gold weather would not remind him of other Christmases which were gone— pure, white, cold Christmases,...
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