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Category： Author：L. T. Meade
"A Very Naughty Girl" is written in the moralistic style of the early nineteen hundreds. The Wynfords of Wyndford Castle are forced to welcome a sixteen year old Evelyn into their home. She is the niece of Squire Wynford and the heiress of the Wynford estate.
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Category： Author：novel
Miss Salome’s face was gently frowning as she wrote.
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Category： Author：Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She published some 500 short stories and poems and twenty novels before her death in 1942.
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The young Duc de Hardimont happened to be at Aix in Savoy, whose waters he hoped would benefit his famous mare, Perichole, who had become wind-broken since the cold she had caught at the last Derby,—and was finishing his breakfast while glancing over the morning paper, when he read the news of the disastrous engagement at R...
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Category： Author：novel
Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. It is some such joy that the man who truly loves the noblest in letters feels when tasting for the first time the simple delights of Russian literatu...
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G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London, for permission to use "The Five Queer Brothers," "The Two Melons" and "What the Birds Said," from "Chinese Nights' Entertainment," by Adele M. Fielde; "The Lac of Rupees," from "Indian Fairy Tales," by Joseph Jacobs; "The Se...
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Category： Author：novel
One morning, just as I was about to set off to my office, Agrafena, my cook, washerwoman and housekeeper, came in to me and, to my surprise, entered into conversation.
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SOME say that when that box was opened wherein lay ready the evils of the world (and a woman opened it) Hope flew out at last. That is a Pagan thing to say and a hopeless one, for the true comfort that remained for men, and that embodied and gave reality to their conquering struggle against every despair, was surely Song.
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This volume does not aim to contain all "the best American humorous short stories"; there are many other stories equally as good, I suppose, in much the same vein, scattered through the range of American literature.
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