Bernard Brooks\' Adventures
Category: Author:novel
You’re a bad lot, Bernard Brooks. I don’t think I ever knew a wuss boy.” “Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Snowdon. Let me suggest, however, that wuss is hardly correct English.”
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Category: Author:novel
You’re a bad lot, Bernard Brooks. I don’t think I ever knew a wuss boy.” “Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Snowdon. Let me suggest, however, that wuss is hardly correct English.”
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Category: Author:novel
A discouraged, dishevelled human figure crossed a narrow woodland to the west of a chain of hills, thence made his way slowly down to a sun-baked valley or depression, many miles in extent. The valley was rough, broken, repellent to the eye. For the most part unverdant, it ran in a northeasterly direction—bleak, uninviting, monotonous—...
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Category: Author:Knut Hamsun
Related to and sometimes paired with Hamsun's Under the Autumn Stars, this beautifully lyric fiction picks up with the same characters as the other book, but is set in time six years later. The central character of the former novel, Knut Pedersen (Hamsun's real name), is more an observer in this work. His former friend Grindhusen has g...
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Category: Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her two stern aunts in the village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's joy for life inspires her aunts, but she faces many trials in her young life, gaining wisdom and understanding. Wiggin wrote a...
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