The Great Hoggarty Diamond
Category： Short Stories Author：William Makepeace Tha
Gives an Account of Our Village and the First Glimpse of the Diamond
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Category： Short Stories Author：William Makepeace Tha
Gives an Account of Our Village and the First Glimpse of the Diamond
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Category： Short Stories Author：Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office to run for Parliament as a Liberal candidate in 1868. Aft...
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Category： Short Stories Author：Wilkie Collins
In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point. It was reported on good authority that he was in receipt of one of the largest incomes derived from the practice of medicine in modern times. One afternoon, towards the close of the London season, the Doctor had just taken his luncheon a...
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Category： Short Stories Author：Elizabeth Gaskell
Half a life-time ago, there lived in one of the Westmoreland dales a single woman, of the name of Susan Dixon. She was owner of the small farm-house where she resided, and of some thirty or forty acres of land by which it was surrounded. She had also an hereditary right to a sheep-walk, extending to the wild fells that overhang Blea Ta...
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Category： Short Stories Author：Honoré de Balzac
On a winter’s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d’Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new suffer...
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