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By: Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) | |
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The Story of a Bad Boy
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back to Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly described in his semi-autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), in which "Tom Bailey" is the juvenile hero. Critics have said that this novel contains the first realistic depiction of childhood in American fiction and prepared the ground for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Aldrich went on to associate with many of the literati of his time in New York City, and was editor of the Atlantic Monthly in the 1880's... | |
An Old Town By the Sea | |
Majorie Daw | |
Ponkapog Papers | |
Cruise of the Dolphin | |
A Midnight Fantasy | |
Wyndham Towers | |
Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It | |
The Little Violinist | |
A Struggle For Life | |
Mademoiselle Olympe Zabriski | |
Miss Mehetabel's Son | |
A Rivermouth Romance | |
Our New Neighbors At Ponkapog | |
Père Antoine's Date-Palm | |
Quite So |
By: Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) | |
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Rolf in the Woods | |
The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country |
By: Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) | |
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,— such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very remarkable "Dream of Akinosuke," for example, is certainly from a Chinese source. But the story-teller, in every case, has so recolored and reshaped his borrowing as to naturalize it… One queer tale, "Yuki-Onna," was told me by a farmer of Chofu, Nishitama-gori, in Musashi province, as a legend of his native village... | |
Chita: a Memory of Last Island |
By: Harry Bates, Editor | |
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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, September 1930
This is a collection of short science fiction stories by various writers, circa 1930. Writers include Paul Ernst, Miles Breuer, Ray Cummings, Sewell Wright, and others. |
By: Chretien de Troyes | |
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Erec and Enide
A medieval romance in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love |
By: Richard Marsh | |
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The Beetle
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh’s novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as Stoker’s Dracula, George du Maurier’s Trilby, and Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu novels. Like Dracula and many of the sensation novels pioneered by Wilkie Collins and others in the 1860s, The Beetle is narrated from the perspectives of multiple characters,... |
By: Anton Chekhov (1860-1904) | |
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Ward No. 6
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provincial lunatic asylum, overseeing with weary, dubious policies a motley group of patients, a group that mirrors in microcosm all of human and especially Russian society. Seeking answers to profound questions, Dr. Rabin enters into dialogues with both staff members and patients, trying to make sense out of what has become of his life, until it becomes less and less clear who is the doctor and who is the patient... |