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...Levity is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inh...

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Fiction

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...Ellen Wood (1814-1887) was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne which was a Victorian best seller and is still sometimes performed as a drama) enjoyed remarkable popularity. Lady Isabel Carlyle, a beautiful and ref...

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...These are a collection of humorous letters written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. They were published regularly in the New York Mercury Sunday newspaper for the four years of the war. In the letters, Newell pokes fun at northern generals,...

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Humor, War stories

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Historical Fiction

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...Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilli...

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... State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way.... ...make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity... ...ying for a transfer to an office quite similar—she couldn’t yet hope for a place in a bigger—under the very roof where he was foreman, so that, dangle... ...nce her outward occupation didn’t kill it, it must be strong indeed. Combinations of flowers and green- stuff, forsooth! What SHE could handle freely,... ...five over five different signatures. Perhaps these rep- resented five different friends who had asked her—all women, just as perhaps now Mary and Ciss...

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... PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Bundle of Letters by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Bundle of Letters by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James A Bundle of Letters by Henry James CHAPTER I From Miss Mireanda... ...erienced no draw- backs whatever. I have made a great many pleasant ac- 5 Henry James quaintances in travelling round (both ladies and gentle- men), ... ...Bangor. In fact, I used to hear a great deal more at Bangor, from those 7 Henry James French Canadians that came down to cut the ice, than I saw I sh...

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confidence by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James Confidence by Henry James CHAPTER I I t was in the early days o... ...she might gather up the crumbs of the feast. Longueville, every morning 5 Henry James after breakfast, took a turn in the great square of Siena— the ... ...—her mother, pre- sumably—was in the church. The two ladies had been in 7 Henry James the church when he arrived; women liked to sit in churches; the... ...say—if she were going to be silly enough to allude to the most impudent of fictions; then, as she stood opening and closing her blue fan and smiling a...

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...Henry Augustin Beers (1847-?), native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping tho...

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...volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012. Dr. Henry van Dyke was an American author, lecturer, ambassador and pastor. He was in charge of the committee which wrote The Book of Common Worship of 19...

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Historical Fiction, Memoirs, Nature, War stories, Poetry

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...A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year. (Summary by Julie VW)...