Daryl Wor

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Biography & Autobiography

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Grant M. Overton - Women Who Make Our Novels

”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary...

MaryAnn and 13 more 10 hours 20 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

536

A. A. Milne - Happy Days

Although best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, A.A. Milne spent years as an editor at the English humor magazine Punch. These sprightly essays were chosen from the hundreds he wrote during that period. As usual,...

Phil Chenevert and 17 more 8 hours 15 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

427

Myrtle Reed - Old Rose And Silver

The novel follows the lives of Rose and her widowed Aunt, Madame Francesca Bernard, along with young visitor and cousin Isabel, whose lives are changed by the return of an old friend and neighbour Colonel Kent, and...

Daryl Wor 7 hours 36 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

443

Myrtle Reed - At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern

This begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall...

Daryl Wor 7 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

511

Howard Pyle - Wonder Clock

«Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day,» retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the form. While drawing on German, English, and Scandinavian folk literature for many of his...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Literary Fiction

534

Myrtle Reed - Flower of the Dusk

Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by disabilities, maintain the joy of life while struggling through sadness and...

Daryl Wor 6 hours 50 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Christopher Morley - Pipefuls

A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface «These...

klbonds and 12 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

476

Margaret Warde - Betty Wales, Freshman

First published in 1904, Betty Wales Freshman is the first book in an 8 volume series that follows Betty and her classmates throughout college and beyond. It takes place at Harding in New England (NOT to be confused...

Daryl Wor 6 hours 17 minutes

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Peggy Raymond's Vacation (or Friendly Terrace Transplanted)

General

434

Harriet Lummis Smith - Peggy Raymond's Vacation (or Friendly Terrace Transplanted)

Sequel to The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success). As the summer opens the girls fan themselves on the porch, wishing for a get away. As it happens, opportunity knocks, leading them into a country...

Daryl Wor 6 hours 7 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

495

Christopher Morley - Mince Pie

Mince Pie is a compilation of humorous sketches, poetry, and essays written by Christopher Morley. Morley sets the tone in the preface: «If one asks what excuse there can be for prolonging the existence of these...

Lucretia B. and 9 more 6 hours

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Children's Fiction

460

Johanna Spyri - Maezli

«Mäzli» may be pronounced the most natural and one of the most entertaining of Madame Spyri's creations. The atmosphere is created by an old Swiss castle and by the romantic associations of the noble family who lived...

Daryl Wor 5 hours 59 minutes

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Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success)

Children's Fiction

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Harriet Lummis Smith - Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success)

Peggy Raymond and her friends, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth, encounter a new neighbour, Elaine, and her family. While Peggy, in her usual cheerful and practical manner, welcomes them into the neighbourhood of Friendly...

Daryl Wor 5 hours 43 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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