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The Lost Brother

In Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1

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Songling Pu

"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly sup…

After Parting

In Rivers to the Sea

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Sara Teasdale

This is Sara Teasdale's third published collection of poetry. The collection was published in 1915, and contains the famous poem "I Sha…

Chapter 9

In The Hampstead Mystery

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John Watson and Arthur Rees and Arthur J. Rees

A murder whodunit... Location: Hampstead, England. Victim: Sir Horace Fewbanks, a distinguished High Court judge. Cause of death: gun shot w…

The Boys

In The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View

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Laura Lee Hope

In "The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View, Or The Box that Was Found in the Sand", the girls have great fun and solve a mystery while on…

A Block on Ashbury Heights

In Vignettes of San Francisco

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Almira Bailey

A collection of observations and stories about San Franciscan life - the people, the buildings, the parks, the food, the street-cars, the ba…

Juliet's Story Continued

In The Secret Passage

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Fergus Hume

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstaking…

Book IX Chapter 11: An Enterprise

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

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Frances Burney

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

In the Synagogue of the Nazarenes

In Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross

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Florence Morse Kingsley

This is a unique sequel to the book Titus: A Comrade of the Cross written in a very different style, though none the less memorable, full of…

14 - Kenneth is Frightened

In Aunt Jane's Nieces

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L. Frank Baum

Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her mone…

The Flicker's Mistake

In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900

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Various

"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …