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The Passenger from Calais

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Arthur Griffiths

An army officer, and a mysterious lady with a maid and baby in tow, are the only passengers on the Engadine express from Calais. The lady is…

A Broken Window, and Glorious News

In The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods

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Edward Stratemeyer and Captain Quincy Allen

“That looks like a challenge, Frank.” “It was well fired, at any rate, Bluff!” “I should say yes, because it knocked my hat clear off my hea…

April

In A Calendar of Sonnets (Version 2)

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Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet …

Chapter VI, Part 1

In The Dream of the Red Chamber Book I

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Xueqin Cao

The Dream of the Red Chamber (also known as The Story of the Stone) is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of China, and considered the g…

A Daughter of Patricians.

In A Fair Mystery

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Charlotte M. Brame and Charlotte M Brame

(Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.)Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home t…

Who is She?

In Nobody

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Susan Warner

There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling in love with a beautiful lower class woman over the objections of his fa…

Chapter XI - A Ghastly Waif of the Sea

In The Cruise of the Esmeralda

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Harry Collingwood

After his father died, Captain Saint Leger and his family are left destitute. However, the Saint Legers have a family secret: an ancestor is…

Chapter VI

In Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins

Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in "The Colored American Magazine" in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent A…