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The Education of Henry Adams

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Henry Brooks Adams

The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning …

Alice Adams

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Booth Tarkington

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20…

The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2

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Booth Tarkington

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilo…

A Country Doctor

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Sarah Orne Jewett

A Country Doctor is a fiction novel by American author Sarah Orne Jewett. The book, which was first published in 1884, was based on the rela…

Chapter 08

In War and Peace, Book 17: Second Epilogue

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Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

The Staleness of the New Schools

In What's Wrong With the World

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GK Chesterton and G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…

Starting Married Life

In A Daughter of the Land

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Gene Stratton-Porter

Independent Kate Bates resents the fact that, as the youngest of a large family, she is expected to stay at home and help her parents while …

The Curates at Tea Part 2

In Shirley

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Charlotte Brontë

Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (…

Chapter 182

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

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Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest

This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…