Members of the Family. Owen Wister
1901. Wister, an American writer whose stories helped to establish the cowboy as an archetypical, individualist hero. Members of the Family is a collection of more stories featuring the courageous, but mysterious, cowboy known only as the
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2005
Old French Romances. William Morris
Therewith they went their ways to the Court of the Count and found him not there, because he was gone to Bericain to visit Amis his fellow, and comfort him of the death of his father. And when he found him not, he departed sore troubled, and said
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2006
Rodney Stone. Arthur Conan Doyle
She spoke in a beautiful, rich voice, with the most heart-broken thrill in it, but I could not conceal from myself that she appeared to be one of the most robust persons that I had ever seen, and I was surprised to notice that she shot arch little
Men In War. Andreas Latzko
The little wife, completely at a loss, her whole body quivering, bent over her husband again to take leave. She was certain that his outburst had reference to her and held a grim deadly reproach, which she did not comprehend. She felt her husband
Tremendous Trifles. G. K. Chesterton
So it was, certainly, with the Bastille. The destruction of the Bastille was not a reform; it was something more important than a reform. It was an iconoclasm; it was the breaking of a stone image. The people saw the building like a giant looking
Lyrical Recreations. Samuel Ward
Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1865 года (издательство "New York and London, D. Appleton & co.; Boston, Roberts brothers").
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Memories And Studies Of War And Peace (1896). Archibald Forbes
Archibald Forbes (17 April 1838 – 30 March 1900) was a British war correspondent, the son of a Presbyterian minister in Morayshire, Scotland; educated at the University of Aberdeen. Entering the Royal Dragoons as a private, he gained, while in
The Poetry of Tennyson. Henry Van Dyke
1893. A collection of essays by Van Dyke, American clergyman, educator and author, on Tennyson and his poetry. He writes in the preface: I believe that Tennyson is one of the great poets,-great in the clarity and beauty and nobility of his style;
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2039
The Silent Isle. Arthur Christopher Benson
I have been spending some days in town, on business; I have been sitting on two committees, I have given a lecture, I have attended a public dinner; and now I have come back gratefully to my hermitage. I got home in the evening; it is winter, but
The Town Traveller. George Gissing
Here, on the quiet pavement shadowed by the College of Surgeons, she lingered in expectancy. Ten was striking, but she looked in vain for the figure she would recognize -- that of a well-dressed, middle-aged man, with a white silk comforter about
In the Vanguard. Katrina Trask
1913. A drama by Kate Nichols Trask, American writer and philanthropist and cofounder of the artists’ community, Yaddo. Книга представляет собой репринтное издание 1913 года (издательство
The Shepherd of the Hills. Harold Bell Wright
1907. Prior to his artistic and writing career, Harold Bell Wright served as a minister. In The Shepherd of the Hills he writes about a man who comes from the world of cities to the beautiful Ozark hill country. Among the people of the district,