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Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life - Volume 3

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life - Volume 3

Mrs. Oliphant | Fiction
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"The Banking House of the Vernons was known through all the Home Counties as only second to the Bank of England in stability and strength. That is to say, the people who knew about such matters, the business people, the professional classes, and those who considered themselves to be acquainted...

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life - Volume 2

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life - Volume 2

Mrs. Oliphant | Fiction
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"The Banking House of the Vernons was known through all the Home Counties as only second to the Bank of England in stability and strength. That is to say, the people who knew about such matters, the business people, the professional classes, and those who considered themselves to be acquainted...

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life - Volume 1

Hester: A Story of Contemporary Life - Volume 1

Mrs. Oliphant | Fiction
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"The Banking House of the Vernons was known through all the Home Counties as only second to the Bank of England in stability and strength. That is to say, the people who knew about such matters, the business people, the professional classes, and those who considered themselves to be acquainted...

Who Was Lost and Is Found: A Novel

Who Was Lost and Is Found: A Novel

Mrs. Oliphant | Fiction
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"It would have been hard, however, to have looked upon the face of Mrs James Ogilvy as she went about her little household duties in the morning, or took her walks about the garden, or knitted her stocking in the placid afternoon, and to have thought of her as discontented or struggling with...

The Lady from Long Acre

The Lady from Long Acre

Victor Bridges | Fiction
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Lady Jocelyn sighed gently and put down her cup on the tea-table. "I suppose, Tony," she said, "that when one gets to seventy-two, one's conscience begins to decay just as one's body does. I seem to like good people less and immoral and useless ones more. You are the only member of the family it...

Icelandic Fairy Tales

Icelandic Fairy Tales

A. W. Hall | Fiction
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In olden days there once lived a king and a queen; they were wise and good, and their kingdom was known far and near as the happiest and best-governed country in the world. They had three sons—Osric, Edric, and Frithiof,—all handsome and brave and greatly beloved by their parents; but, having...

A Whirl Asunder

A Whirl Asunder

Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton | Fiction
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As the train stopped for the sixth time, Clive descended abruptly. “I think I’ll walk the rest of the way,” he said to the conductor. “Just look after my portmanteau, will you? and see that it is left at Yorba with my boxes.” “O. K.”, said the man. “But you must like walking”...

The Perilous Seat

The Perilous Seat

Caroline Dale Snedeker | Fiction
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Dryas, the young Delphian, finished his song. As he did so he leaped impulsively to the sheer edge of the temple platform, leaning forward in the very attitude of the Archer God. The song was to Apollo. For a moment he seemed to be the young Apollo himself. The final note was scarce heard for the...

The Railway Man and His Children

The Railway Man and His Children

Mrs. Oliphant | Fiction
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"The Railway Man and His Children" by Mrs. Oliphant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that...

Lives of Two Cats

Lives of Two Cats

Pierre Loti | Fiction
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On a memorable evening nearly twelve years ago, I saw her for the first time. It was a winter’s evening, on one of my returns home at the close of some Eastern campaign. I had been in the house but a few moments, and was warming myself before a blazing wood fire, seated between my mother and my...