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Dodo Wonders

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E. F. Benson

"Dodo Wonders" is the third and last of the "Dodo" novels by E.F. Benson, author of the "Mapp and Lucia" serie…

chapter 6

In Felix Holt, The Radical

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George Eliot

"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

Chapter 2

In Little Men (version 2)

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Louisa May Alcott

Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, P…

A Primer of Progressive Crime

In The Black Bag

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Louis Joseph Vance

Mr. Philip Kirkwood, a not so successful painter, receives a visitor from his home town in America, who wants him to do him an unspecified f…

The Yellow Sign

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015

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Robert W. Chambers

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Ch 2 "AN INVESTMENT, ANYWAY"

In A Fair Barbarian

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

The setting is a small English village in the 19th century. When her niece shows up on her doorstep unexpectedly, a quiet spinster finds her…

Aunt Caroline's Silk Dress

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

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In Basil

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Wilkie Collins

Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a…

Chapter One

In Dodo's Daughter

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E. F. Benson

The second in the "Dodo" sequence of novels. (Summary by Crowgirl)