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  The House of Mirth

  Edith Wharton

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  "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton intricately portrays the life and social struggles of Lily Bart, a beautiful but impoverished woman navigating New York’s elite society in the early 1900s. With her beauty as her only asset, Lily grapples with the pressures of wealth, status, and societal expectations. As she teeters on the edge of scandal and financial ruin, Wharton masterfully examines themes of ambition, morality, and the harsh realities of a merciless social world.

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  The Christmas Porringer

  Evaleen Stein

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  The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: OVER the old Flemish city of Bruges the wintry twilight was falling. The air was starry with snowflakes that drifted softly down, fluttering from off the steep brown roofs, piling up in corners of ancient doorways, and covering the cobblestones of the narrow streets with a fleecy carpet of white. At This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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  Reminiscences of a stock operator

  Edwin Lefevre

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  I WENT TO WORK when I was just out of grammar school. I got a job as quotation-board boy in a stock-brokerage office. I was quick at figures. At school I did three years of arithmetic in one. I was particularly good at mental arithmetic. As quotation-board boy I posted the numbers on the big board in the customers' room. One of the customers usually sat by the ticker and called out the prices. They couldn't come too fast for me. I have always remembered figures. No trouble at all. There were plenty of other employes in that office. Of course I made friends with the other fellows, but the work I did, if the market was active, kept me too busy from ten A.M. to three P.M. to let me do much talking. I don't care for it, anyhow, during business hours.

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  Juvenilia – Volume II

  Jane Austen

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  Before her famous novels captured the world, Jane Austen's imagination was already creating stories filled with wit, humor, and unforgettable ideas.
  Discover Juvenilia – Volume II, a captivating collection of Jane Austen's early writings that offers a rare glimpse into the creative mind behind some of the greatest novels in English literature.
  Written during Austen's youth, these works reveal the beginnings of her distinctive style, featuring playful storytelling, sharp satire, and a brilliant understanding of human behavior. Through imaginative scenes and humorous observations, Austen explores themes of society, relationships, ambition, and the everyday experiences that would later become central to her celebrated novels.
  This collection allows readers to witness the evolution of Austen's literary voice and appreciate the creativity, confidence, and originality that appeared long before the publication of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Persuasion.
  A fascinating addition for admirers of Jane Austen and lovers of classic literature, Juvenilia – Volume II provides an intimate look at the early experiments of a writer whose influence continues to inspire readers across generations.
  Experience the youthful brilliance of Jane Austen and explore the imaginative works that shaped the foundation of her remarkable literary career.
  Add Juvenilia – Volume II to your collection today and discover the early genius of one of the world's most beloved authors.

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  The Brown Fairy Book -...

  Andrew Lang

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  Thirty-two tales from India, Africa, Australia, Persia and Lapland: the bunyip, the Red Indian Ball-Carrier and the Bad One, and what the rose did to the cypress. Lang's series drew on ethnographers' collections as they were published, so the brown book has stories that had never been in English before. Nine paintings by Corot, Daubigny, Cézanne and others carry the reader from wooded glades and winter farmsteads to a horse at a cottage gate, a landscape fitting for tales gathered from many lands.

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  Two Boys in Wyoming: A Tale of...

  Edward Sylvester Ellis

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  Fred Greenwood was the son of a physician of large practice, whose expectation was that his son would follow the same profession, though the plans of the parents were in a somewhat hazy shape, owing to the youth of the boy. As I have already said, he and Jack Dudley had been comrades or chums almost from infancy. They were strong, active, clear-brained lads, who had not yet learned to smoke cigarettes or cigars, and gave no cause to fear that they would ever do so. It is not necessary to state that neither knew the taste of beer or alcoholic drinks, nor did they wish to learn. They understood too well the baleful effects of such indulgences to be in danger of ruining their bodies and souls, as too many other youths are doing at this very time....FROM THE BOOKS.

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