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...s of Lord Lane. Why, he wonders, is he thus drawn to this beautiful youth? And has the boy a sister? Co-author Alice Livingston, of Poughkeepsie, New York, mentions in her memoirs that she sailed for Europe after a boyfriend tried to shoot her. In London she met literary editor Charles Williamson and began writing for the story magazines of media mogul Lord Northcliffe. At...

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...American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. Her 1918 novella The Marne dramatizes the events of the war as seen through the eyes of...

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...ection 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, politicians, and has hard things to say about southerners. Although Newell is rarely serious, I imagine the l...

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...om December 1915, and in the UK in Strand Magazine starting December 1916. It first appeared in book form on March 17, 1916 by D. Appleton & Co., New York, and later in the UK (on October 4, 1917) by Methuen & Co., London. A silent, black-and-white film version was made in 1918. Summary by Tim Bulkeley based on data from Wikipedia...

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...Mary Roberts Rinehart -- America's Agatha Christie, as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events becomes engaged to Elizabeth Wheeler. But there is a mystery about his past, and he...

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...This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of from 500 to 1,500 unarmed Anglo-American troops, who had honorably surrendered at Fort William Henry, plus some women ...

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...umes his identity. Douglas had booked passage to America for the next day, so after a pleasant sea voyage Phillip arrives at the Waldorf Hotel in New York as Douglas Romilly. An hour after checking in he disappears again, and assumes yet another identity, one that his cousin had set up for himself. Douglas was facing massive financial problems, and he, too, had planned to ...

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...king, and in this tale, The Pathfinder. Guide, scout, hunter, and when put to it, soldier, he also fills a lot of roles in pre-Revolution upstate New York. An old friend, Sergeant Dunham of the 55th Regiment of Foot, asks him to guide his daughter through the wilderness to the fort at Oswego where Dunham serves. With the French engaging native Indian allies against the Bri...

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...me, and willing to stand up to the living legend to reach her. This initial meeting leads to a friendship between the two and they travel east to New York City on the trail of the girl. When they find the girl, Caroline Smith, and she refuses to leave, Ronicky must discover the secret that holds her. They encounter the sinister John Mark and the beautiful Ruth Tolliver and...

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...rpt: Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Disembarking upon the wharf, they climbed into one of those huge high-hung coaches which convey passengers to the hotels, and with a ...

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... PART I F our years ago—in 1874—two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at mid... ...e huge high-hung coaches which convey passengers to the ho- tels, and with a great deal of bouncing and bumping, took their course through Broadway. T... ...id Mr. Westgate. “Only I must im- press upon you that at present—tomorrow morning, at an early hour—you will be expected at Newport. We have a house t... ...ed exceedingly fresh and comfortable. Several of the ladies seemed to be young girls, and the gentlemen were slim, fair youths, such as our friends ha... ...I am sure you will find American society—at least Newport society—most charming and most interesting. I wish very much my husband were here; but he’s ... ...ently turned to him with a remark which established her identity. “It’s a great pity you couldn’t have brought my brother- in-law with you. It’s a gre... ...ld of!” his lordship’s kinsman privately reflected. “I really believe,” Mrs. Westgate continued, “that the most charming girl in the world is a Boston... ...him on the morrow; but on the morrow she wandered about a little, with a telegram in her jew- eled fingers, declaring it was very tiresome that his bu... ... however, evidently had its attractions, for Beaumont was constantly at his 38 An International Episode hostess’s side. He detached himself one day t...

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...t, with a great affectation of carelessness, to the party by the fire. It was a trader and his negroes, belonging to Albany, in the province of New Yo... ...very honest man indeed, and very greedy; and, to crown our luck, he conceived a great delight in our society. Before we had reached the town of New Yo... ...range thing to be noted. He had only once before referred to the lady with whom he was contracted. That was when we came in view of the town of New Yo... ... make our packets secretly to-day, and leave secretly to-night. Thank Heaven, we have another house! The first ship that sails shall bear us to New Yo... ... I cried. “Are you leaving?” “We are all leaving to-morrow in the morning,” said he. “For the port of Glascow first, thence for the province of New Yo... ...nd tell those fools” – pointing with his finger to the town – “to think twice and thrice before they set me at defiance.” CHAPTER X PASSAGES AT NEW YO... ...ighway! Or, if that likes you not, stay here and welcome! I have inquired the least sum on which body and soul can be decently kept together in New Yo... ...he Master, for I lingered all morning within view of the booth. That was the last time my Lord Durrisdeer passed his own enclosure till we left New Yo... ...ations. My lord had car- ried with him several introductions to chief people of the town and neighbourhood; others he had before encountered in New Yo...

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...arvis’s fam’ly I reckon,” said the captain, “kept a dry-goods store in New York city, and realised a handsome competency by burning his house to ashes...

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...most famous of which featured a character called Jimmie Dale. Jimmie Dale is a wealthy playboy by day, with a Harvard education and membership to New York City’s ultra-exclusive private club St. James. But at night he puts on a costume and becomes The Grey Seal, who enters businesses or homes and cracks safes, always leaving a diamond shaped, grey paper seal behind to mark...

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...h artichokes and aub- ergines, foreign apples—apples from the State of New York, apples from California, apples from Canada, apples from New Zealand, ... ...AT MONO-RAIL DISASTER AT TIMBUCTOO. or this:— WAR A QUESTION OF HOURS. NEW YORK CALM. 37 H G Wells EXCITEMENT IN BERLIN. or again:— WASHINGTON STILL ... ...together fish-like. For the great airships with which Germany attacked New York in her last gigantic ef- fort for world supremacy—before humanity real... ...r-fleet, had passed through the straits of Dover and headed boldly for New York. Not only did these German battleships outnumber the Americans two to ... ...iscredited were the newspapers of that period that a large majority of New Yorkers, for example, did not believe the most copious and circumstantial a... ...ial accounts of the German air-fleet until it was actually in sight of New York. Kurt’s talk was half soliloquy. He stood with a map on Mercator’s pro... ...we’ve been dreaming of for years! I suppose we shall fly right away to New York—just as though it wasn’t anything at all. I suppose we shall reckon we... ...se tenders and store-ships of ours are going on south- west by west to New York to make a floating depot for us. See?” He dabbed his forefinger on the... ..., “and come into the wind. I can’t make it out. We’ve turned away from New York to the south. Almost as if we were going to take a hand—” He continued...

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...er endeavour was bent upon keeping her watch true to Glasgow time till she should reach New York. They had heard reports, her husband and she, of some... ...were fleeing from starvation, he was present on a plea- sure trip to visit a brother in New York. Ere he started, he informed me, he had been warned a... ...her old chum in Sauchiehall Street. ‘By the bye, Alick,’ said he, ‘I met a gentleman in New York who was asking for you.’ ‘Who was that?’ asked Alick.... ...p is critical and human life is presented to you naked and verging to its lowest terms. NEW YORK AS WE DREW NEAR to New York I was at first amused, an... ...the best of my power. My fellow-passenger, whom we shall call M’Naughten, had come from New York to Boston with a comrade, seeking work. They were a p... ...t of Mr. Jones. Before noon of the second Sunday we sighted the low shores out- side of New York harbour; the steerage passengers must re- main on boa... ...-wagon. It rained miraculously; and from that moment till on the following night I left New York, there was scarce a lull, and no cessation of the dow... ..., cheerful, and loquacious verses. Here I was at last in America, and was soon out upon New York streets, spying for things foreign. The place had to ... ...cent immigrants, and not indisposed to welcome a compatriot. They had been six weeks in New York, and neither of them had yet found a single job or ea...

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...ed me to that expedition. After six months in Nebraska, I ar- rived in New York towards the end of March, laden with a precious collection. My departu... ...vited to put their finger on the wound of the Scotia. On my arrival at New York the question was at its height. The theory of the floating island, and... ...watched by powerful ri- vals, certainly impossible. Upon my arrival in New York several persons did me the honour of consulting me on the phenomenon i... ...been pronounced. The United States were the first in the field; and in New York they made preparations for an expedition destined to pursue this narwh... ...a To M. Aronnax, Professor in the Museum of Paris, Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Sir,—If you will consent to join the Abraham Lincoln in this expediti... ...e. The sea was incessantly ploughed by the steam- ers that ply between New York or Boston and the Gulf of Mexico, and overrun day and night by the lit... ...the Nautilus was floating off Long Island, some miles from the port of New York. I can describe this strife of the elements! for, instead of fleeing t... ... above the waves. It was probably one of the steamers of the line from New York to Liverpool, or Havre. It soon disappeared in the gloom. At ten o’clo... ...ad been thrown eastward once more. All hope of escape on the shores of New York or St. Lawrence had faded away; and poor Ned, in de- spair, had isolat...

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...rs staggered, dropped, and were still. The figure runs from my pen. In New York that very thing occurred. Most of the theatrical audiences dispersed, ... ... had any had eyes to see its clearness. In London it was night, but in New York, for example, people were in the full bustle of the evening’s enjoymen... ...d, streaming over the bridges in the gray cold light of dawn. Where is New York, the high city of clangor and infuriated energy , wind swept and compe...

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...Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the unpredictable theatrical industry and the Great White Way, the lights and glamour of Broadway. In order to set myself right with both the ...

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...scence, Combourg 1784-1786 Book IV Regiment, Court, Paris 1786-1789 Book V Revolution 1789-1791 Book VI To America 1791 Book VII Travels in New York State 1791 Book VIII Kentucky, Virginia, Return to France 1791-1792 Book IX With the Army of the Princes 1792 Book X Exile in England 1793-1797 Book XI First Literary Works 1798-1799 Book XII England, and Return ...