Welcome to the stirring world of Julia A. Moore's "Sunshine and Shadow, or, Paul Burton's Surprise," a tale woven with romance and intrigue against the backdrop of the American Revolution.Step back in time and immerse yourself in the tumultuous era of America's fight for independence as Moore transports you through the captivating journey of Paul Burton. Follow his path as he navigates the challenges of war, loyalty, and love, where every twist and turn brings new revelations and...

Many years ago, in one of the New England States near the banks of a small lake, stood a beautiful farm house, surrounded by a fine orchard. John Hilton, the owner of this romantic place, was an intelligent farmer and was kind to all people who chanced to come to his house. His family consisted of himself, wife and two children, a son and daughter. Warren, the eldest, was a fine lad of eighteen, with blue eyes and light complexion, and inherited his father’s kind disposition. Minnie was a ...

Welcome to the stirring world of Julia A. Moore's Sunshine and Shadow, or, Paul Burton's Surprise, a tale woven with romance and intrigue against the backdrop of the American Revolution.Step back in time and immerse yourself in the tumultuous era of America's fight for independence as Moore transports you through the captivating journey of Paul Burton. Follow his path as he navigates the challenges of war, loyalty, and love, where every twist and turn brings new re...

The Essential Feminist Collection gathers sixty canonical and rediscovered texts that chart feminism's literary, ethical, and political emergence across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Novels, short fiction, essays, speeches, autobiographical testimony, social criticism, and dramatic writing illuminate questions of education, marriage, labor, property, sexual autonomy, race, class, and civic equality. Domestic realism and Gothic unease meet utopian speculation, naturalist cri...

Then suddenly hollyhocks, blooming in rank and file, seemed to be marching upon them like platoons of soldiers, with detonations of color that dazzled their peeping eyes; and, indeed, the whole garden seemed charging with its mass of riotous bloom upon the hedge. They could scarcely take in details of marigold and phlox and pinks and London-pride and cock's-combs, and prince's-feather's waving overhead like standards. Sometimes also there was the purple flutter of Evelina's gown; and Eveli...

Merry Stories And Funny Pictures Shock-headed Peter Cruel Frederick The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches The Story of the Inky Boys The Story of the Man that went out Shooting The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb The Story of Augustus, who would not have any Soup The Story of Fidgety Philip The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air The Story of Flying Robert

In "Memories and Anecdotes," Kate Sanborn presents a collection of vividly rendered personal narratives that traverse the spectrum of human experience. Employing a conversational literary style, Sanborn crafts each anecdote with meticulous attention to detail, evoking a sense of nostalgia and reflection. The work is deeply rooted in the tradition of American memoir, drawing on the rich tapestry of her own life while simultaneously inviting readers to consider the universal themes of loss, ...

The novel follows the story of John Harkless, a young newspaper editor who becomes entangled in political and romantic conflicts in a small Indiana town. As Harkless navigates the challenges he faces in the local political landscape, he also encounters personal and romantic dilemmas, all set against the backdrop of the town's social dynamics.Booth Tarkington's writing often focused on themes related to American society, politics, and the human condition. "The Gentleman from Indiana" is one...

The Great Short Stories of Thanksgiving frames the holiday not as a single ritual but as a capacious literary occasion for gratitude, hunger, kinship, memory, and social obligation. Spanning moral fable, domestic sentiment, regional realism, comic sketch, children's fiction, and psychologically alert social critique, the selection places familiar seasonal scenes beside more unsettling reflections on belonging and want. Its range illuminates the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century short...

Of Love, Life & Happiness: A Thanksgiving Collection gathers an expansive array of short fiction, sketches, moral tales, and domestic narratives shaped by gratitude, kinship, charity, and the fragile consolations of everyday life. Moving between sentimental realism, regional color, children's literature, romance, Gothic-inflected reflection, and comic anecdote, the volume situates Thanksgiving not merely as a holiday but as a literary occasion for reckoning with community and obligation. I...

The Greatest Thanksgiving Tales gathers nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century fiction in which Thanksgiving becomes more than a calendar observance: it is a lens for examining kinship, charity, memory, abundance, deprivation, and national belonging. Its range extends from domestic realism and sentimental sketches to comic reversals, moral tales, children's literature, regional writing, and Gothic-inflected reflection. Stories of unexpected homecomings, strained family tables, and generos...

“David Lindsay” resumes the story of the Gloria de la Vera from where it paused at the conclusion of “Gloria.”Written by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth (1819–1899) and copyright in 1877 by Robert Bonner.Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the A. L. Burt printed edition. 43 chapters, 390 pages, 130,000 words.Chapters:I. - David Lindsay’s Woe.II. - A Terrible Visitor.III. - Traces of the Apparition.IV. - Who Was He?...