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Over the teacupsAuthor: Oliver W. HolmesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 06, 2015Number of Pages: 200 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517682754ISBN-13: 9781517682750

"I have the feeling that every man's biography is at his own expense. He furnishes not only the facts, but the report. I mean that all biography is autobiography. It is only what he tells of himself that comes to be known and believed." So writes the man...

Excerpt from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table: Every Man His Own Boswell This book was written for a generation which knew nothing or next to nothing of war, and hardly dreamed of it; which felt as if invention must have exhausted itself in the...

I intended to have signalized my first appearance by a certain large statement, which I flatter myself is the nearest approach to a universal formula, of life yet promulgated at this breakfast-table. It would have had a grand effect. For this purpose I...

It was about the middle of November. There had been a long rain storm, ending in sleet and snow, and now the sun was shining brightly on a landscape sheeted with ice: walks and roads were slippery with it, every tree and shrub was encased in it, and...

Excerpt from Elsie and Her Loved Ones It was a lovely spring day - very lovely at Viamede, where Mrs. Travilla - or Grandma Elsie, as some of her young friends loved to call her - was seated under the orange trees on the flower-bespangled lawn, with her...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

Hugh Lilburn was very urgent with his betrothed for a speedy marriage, pleading that as her brother had robbed him and his father of their expected housekeeper-his cousin Marian-he could not long do without the wife who was to supply her place. Her...

"The Fate of Felix Brand" from Florence Finch Kelly. American journalist (1858-1939).Author: Florence Finch KellyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2015Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

"Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories" from Florence Finch Kelly. American journalist (1858-1939).Author: Florence Finch KellyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2015Number of Pages: 178 pagesBinding:...

The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin The ColonelAuthor: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2015Number of Pages: 186 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518665446ISBN-13: 9781518665448

Ponkapog PapersAuthor: Thomas Bailey AldrichPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 18, 2015Number of Pages: 164 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518665462ISBN-13: 9781518665462

Loud rang the laughter in the hall of the men-at-arms at Castle Kernsberg. There had come an embassy from the hereditary Princess of Plassenburg, recently established upon the throne of her ancestors, to the Duchess Joan of Hohenstein, ruler of that...

Well do I, Hugo Gottfried, remember the night of snow and moonlight when first they brought the Little Playmate home. I had been sleeping-a sturdy, well-grown fellow I, ten years or so as to my age-in a stomacher of blanket and a bed-gown my mother had...

They stood high on the Abbey cliff-edge-an old man, eagle-profiled, hawk-beaked, cockatoo-crested, with angry grey eyebrows running peakily upwards towards his temples at either side ... and a boy. They were the Earl Raincy and his grandson Louis-all the...

I, Duncan MacAlpine, school-master's son and uncovenanted assistant to my father, stood watching the dust which the Highflyer coach had left between me and Sandy Webb, the little guard thereof, as he whirled onward into the eye of the west. It was the...

Excerpt from The Men of the Moss-Hags: Being a History of Adventure Taken From the Papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway and Told Over Again I desire to express grateful thanks to my researchers, Mr. James Nicholson of Kirkcudbright, who...

Autour de la table. This book, "Autour de la table," by George Sand, is a replication of a book originally published before 1862. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible...

"Elle et Lui" de George Sand. George Sand, romanciere et femme de lettres francaise (1804-1876).Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

"Gabriel" de George Sand. George Sand, romanciere et femme de lettres francaise (1804-1876)."Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 184 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Excerpt from Isidora: Journal d'un Solitaire A Paris Il y a quelques annees, un de nos amis partant pour la Suisse nous chargea de ranger des papiers qu il avait laisses a la campagne, chez sa mere, bonne femme peu lettree, qui nous donna le tout,...

La Petite FadetteAuthor: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 170 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1518773974ISBN-13: 9781518773976

Dans un palais venitien, Aleo Bustamente tente de capter l'affection de Juliette. Il a sauvee cette jeune femme au moment ou elle se trouvait dans une detresse totale, suite a l'abandon de son amant Leone Leoni. Aleo souhaite epouser Juliette mais elle...

"Lettres d'un voyageur" de George Sand. George Sand, romanciere et femme de lettres francaise (1804-1876).Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Paperback...

"Lucrezia Floriani" de George Sand. George Sand, romanciere et femme de lettres francaise (1804-1876).Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 226 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...

"Mademoiselle La Quintinie" de George Sand. George Sand, romanciere et femme de lettres francaise (1804-1876).Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 234 pagesBinding:...

"Nanon" de George Sand. George Sand, romanciere et femme de lettres francaise (1804-1876).Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 220 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

"Nouvelles Lettres d'un voyageur" de George Sand. George Sand, romanciere et femme de lettres francaise (1804-1876).Author: George SandPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Oct 26, 2015Number of Pages: 166 pagesBinding:...