Penny Plain
Category: Author:Anna Buchan
It was tea-time in Priorsford: four-thirty by the clock on a chill October afternoon.
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Category: Author:Anna Buchan
It was tea-time in Priorsford: four-thirty by the clock on a chill October afternoon.
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Most men, apparently, take their gloves for granted. In these days the little refinements of civilization are accepted among us without a thought; but in so doing we lose a great deal of enjoyment which we never were intended to overlook. Least of all are our gloves commonplace. Mr. Chesterton has something to say about Tremendous Tri...
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In the brickwork of a well-known London house, not far from Covent Garden, there is a stone with the date, 1636, which was cut by the order of Alexander, Earl of Stirling. It formed part of a building which sheltered successively Tom Killigrew, Denzil Hollis, and Sir Henry Vane; and that great kaleidoscope of a quack, a swordsman, and ...
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Long banned in the United States and England, My Life and Loves is one of the most notorious autobiographies ever written. Famous for its erotic passages, it is also one of the richest and most entertaining views ever of fin-de-siècle literary and social life. In this unexpurgated chronicle, we come to see Frank Harris (1855-1931) i...
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