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Dear Enemy

Dear Enemy – Jean Webster

‘Dear Enemy’, by Jean Webster, is a novel the events of which are related in the form of letters by the heroine. A formal introduction, indeed, to one of the most intimate, realistic and thoroughly enjoyable pieces of fiction ever! How a charming young woman, all depths and tenderness under her somewhat frivolous exterior, accepts the superintendency of an orphan asylum, and with it the charge of some hundred and thirteen sadly neglected orphans, is merely the beginning of this altogether whimsical, joyful tale. How she transforms the dreadful interior of the New York orphanage; what she does for the youngsters who don’t even know how to play; how she becomes engaged to the wrong … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs – Jean Webster

The books of Jean Webster, like ‘Just Patty’ or ‘When Patty Went to College’ have already shown her rare touch of humor. The letters which Judy writes to her anonymous benefactor might have been cut and dried formal reports of college work; but they aren’t, for Judy is an electric bundle of spicy originality; and her letters to ‘Dear Daddy Long-Legs’ are delicious chronicles of a young girl’s growth out of a starved, lonely childhood into happy, rich womanhood. The illustrations are the author’s own and they look as if they had just been scribbled in fun, on the margin of a letter.

Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs.

Format: eBook.

Daddy-Long-Legs.

ISBN: 9783849658816

 

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Just Patty

Just Patty – Jean Webster

A book which relates some of the earlier adventures of the Patty who went to college. The adventures are of the happy, healthy sort in which every girl of school age will delight. Older readers, too, who have already made Patty’s acquaintance as a college girl will enjoy these stories of her younger days. The book is full of humor and innocent pranks and perfect to give to our girls, because it is just clean, wholesome, and refreshing.

Just Patty

Just Patty.

Format: eBook.

Just Patty.

ISBN: 9783849658809

 

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“IT’S a shame!” said Priscilla.

“It’s an outrage!” said Conny.

“It’s an insult!” said Patty.

“To separate us now after we’ve been together three Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Much Ado About Peter

Much Ado About Peter – Jean Webster

The reader that would have the delightful experience of falling- in love with the Carters’ serving-maid must read ‘Much Ado About Peter’ by Jean Webster. And, incidentally, she who would rather not fall in love with the Carters’ groom had better avoid this collection of short stories about Annie O’Reilly and Peter Malone. These ten tales of life from the viewpoint of those below stairs all have the same hero and heroine, and the fact that the conclusion brings them to the usual fate of lovers gives the book the semblance of a novel. Besides Annie and Peter, the gardener Vittorio, late of the Bersaglieri Corps, who fought Menelek in Abyssinia, makes a … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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The Four Pools Mystery

The Four Pools Mystery – Jean Webster

Here is one of the best, if not the best, stories of mystery and tragedy of the 1900 years. To ‘Four-Pools,’ a quiet stock-farm set in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, comes a worn-out New York lawyer for a vacation. He is a witness of many curious things and of the final tragedy. The unraveling of the mysteries which follow each other with a cumulative interest is due to a clever New York newspaper chap. It’s an unusual and stirring story, in which the portrayal of life on a Southern plantation and the horror and fear roused in the negroes by what they believed manifestations of the ancestral ‘ha’nt’ is clearly and vividly done. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Charles Dickens in America

Charles Dickens in America – William Glyde Wilkins

In reading ‘American Notes’ and Dickens’s letters from America, Mr. Wilkins was struck by two things: the almost bitter severity of his criticism of the American newspapers and his views on the subject of international copyright. To the end of satisfying himself of the justice of these opinions, he collected extracts from the press of almost every city visited by the distinguished novelist. But the task so specifically begun was soon seen to have a much broader significance. If Americans and Englishmen were interested through the ‘American Notes’ to get a glimpse of the United States, it is safe to say that they would be still more interested through the popular press … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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America’s National Game

America’s National Game – Albert G. Spalding

This book is in great demand by baseball enthusiasts. Having been connected with every department of the game from player to magnate, Mr. Spalding has contributed a very important work to the game’s history. As the invincible pitcher of the Boston Club, previous to the formation of the National League, his book of so many pages is an interesting record of events dating from the beginning of the great American pastime. It is not exactly a history of the game, but deals largely with incidents during the author’s career, who was a player in the late 1860s and early 1870s, and helped organize the National League in 1876. One chapter, devoted to sundry … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 4

St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 4 – Walter Barlow Stevens

This is not a book of dates. It does not abound in statistics. It avoids controversies of the past and prophecies of the future. The motive is to present in plain, newspaper style a narrative of the rise and progress of St. Louis to the fourth place among American cities. To personal factors rather than to general causes is credited the high position which the community has attained. Men and women, more than location and events, have made St. Louis the Fourth City. The site chosen was fortunate. Of much greater import was the character of those who came to settle. American history, as told from the Atlantic … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 3

St. Louis – The Fourth City, Volume 3 – Walter Barlow Stevens

This is not a book of dates. It does not abound in statistics. It avoids controversies of the past and prophecies of the future. The motive is to present in plain, newspaper style a narrative of the rise and progress of St. Louis to the fourth place among American cities. To personal factors rather than to general causes is credited the high position which the community has attained. Men and women, more than location and events, have made St. Louis the Fourth City. The site chosen was fortunate. Of much greater import was the character of those who came to settle. American history, as told from the Atlantic … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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Goethe’s Literary Essays

Goethe’s Literary Essays – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Professor Spingarn has done students of literature a real favor; for he has gathered into a single and well-made volume, golden pages from one of the great masters of literature. As divergent-minded judges as Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and Sainte-Beuve acclaimed Goethe the supreme literary critic of all time and, whatever might be said against so superlative an opinion, certainly Goethe’s many-sidedness, his undoubted genius, and his keen insight all conspired to give his judgments on literature a value too great to be ignored. All phases of his critical activity are represented in this excellent volume, which is the work of several translators, all of high standard. Goethe was keenly interested in French … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

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