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05 - Miss Tallowax is Shown the House

In Is He Popenjoy ?

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Anthony Trollope

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

The Fir Cones

In Just Sixteen

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Susan Coolidge

A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjo…

03 - A COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFÉ

In The Four Million (Version 2)

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O. Henry

The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry origi…

Sweet Porridge

In Mother’s Nursery Tales

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Katharine Pyle

Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…

06 - Chapter 6: Sentence of Exile

In Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …

26 - Section 26

In The Purple Cloud

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Matthew Phipps Shiel and M. P. Shiel

The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to t…

Chapter XV - The Obstacle Beats Me

In The Two Destinies

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Wilkie Collins

Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…