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Non-Combatants and Others
JOHN COMES HOME 1 In a green late April evening, among the dusky pine shadows, Alix drew Percival Briggs. Percival stood with his small cleft chin lifted truculently, small blue eyes deep under fair, frowning brows, one...
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The Valley of Decision
THE OLD ORDER. Prima che incontro alla festosa fronte I lugubri suoi lampi il ver baleni. 1.1. It was very still in the small neglected chapel. The noises of the farm came faintly through closed doors--voices shouting at the...
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A Poor Wise Man
The city turned its dreariest aspect toward the railway on blackened walls, irregular and ill-paved streets, gloomy warehouses, and over all a gray, smoke-laden atmosphere which gave it mystery and often beauty. Sometimes the...
Historical
Giants' Bread
GIANTS' BREAD Prologue It was the opening night of London's new National Opera House and consequently an occasion. Royalty was there. The Press were there. The fashionable were there in large quantities. Even the musical, by...
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The Street of Seven Stars
CHAPTER I The old stucco house sat back in a garden, or what must once have been a garden, when that part of the Austrian city had been a royal game preserve. Tradition had it that the Empress Maria Theresa had used the...
Historical
The Amazing Interlude
I The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting. It is furnished out with approximately the same things. Characters come, move about and make their final exits through...
Historical
Sylvia's Lovers
CHAPTER I MONKSHAVEN On the north-eastern shores of England there is a town called Monkshaven, containing at the present day about fifteen thousand inhabitants. There were, however, but half the number at the end of the last...
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The Return of the Soldier
"Ah, don't begin to fuss!" wailed Kitty. "If a woman began to worry in these days because her husband hadn't written to her for a fortnight! Besides, if he'd been anywhere interesting, anywhere where the fighting was really...
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The Glimpses of the Moon
THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON By Edith Wharton PART I I IT rose for them--their honey-moon--over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as...
Historical
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and...
Historical
Marriage
Marriage by Susan Ferrier brings together romance, society, family expectation, and personal choice in a full-length emotional novel. The story follows characters facing pressure from love, reputation, money, and duty, while...
Historical
The Hand of Ethelberta
The Hand of Ethelberta by Thomas Hardy is a deeply felt story of love, pride, loss, and difficult decisions. Set against a vivid social landscape, it follows people whose private hopes collide with duty, class, family, and...
Historical
Lodore
Lodore by Mary Shelley brings together romance, society, family expectation, and personal choice in a full-length emotional novel. The story follows characters facing pressure from love, reputation, money, and duty, while...
Historical
Alas!
Alas! by Rhoda Broughton offers an emotional story of attraction, pride, misunderstanding, and the consequences of choosing with the heart. Its relationships unfold through social pressure and private longing, giving the...
Historical
Not Wisely, but Too Well
Not Wisely, but Too Well by Rhoda Broughton offers an emotional story of attraction, pride, misunderstanding, and the consequences of choosing with the heart. Its relationships unfold through social pressure and private...