by Mark Twain I It was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder o...

by Mary Roberts Rinehart CHAPTER I I GO TO PITTSBURG McKnight is gradually taking over the criminal end of the business. I never liked it, and since the strange case of the man in lower ten, I have be...

by G. K. Chesterton A WILD, MAD, HILARIOUS AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING TALE It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murder...

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by L. Frank Baum "Royal Historian of Oz" To My Readers Curiously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few years in our "great outside world," we may find incidents so marvelous and...

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by Richard Harding Davis I It was a dull day at the chancellery. His Excellency the American Ambassador was absent in Scotland, unveiling a bust to Bobby Burns, paid for by the numerous lovers of that...

By MISS MULOCK CHAPTER I Yes, he was the most beautiful Prince that ever was born. Of course, being a prince, people said this; but it was true besides. When he looked at the candle, his eyes had an e...

A Selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse [Selections made in 1913.] Foreword "The Little Book of Modern Verse", as its name implies, is not a formal ...

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