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Anne of Avonlea
by L. M Montgomery
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7 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 2,377 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Anne, now sixteen years old and a school teacher at a private school, finds that she isn't much different than her mischievous and spirited pupils
Dr. Heidegger's experiment
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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8 editions published between 1996 and 1997 in English and held by 2,357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Dr. Heidegger experiments with four of his friends by giving them water supposedly from the Fountain of Youth
Note on Elia W. Peattie, from "Chronicle and Comment"
by Inc NetLibrary
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7 editions published between 1995 and 1998 in English and held by 2,352 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The letter
by Edith Wharton
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7 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 2,338 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Night and day
by Virginia Woolf
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4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,198 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Katharine Hilbery, the beautiful grand-daughter of a great Victorian poet, must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney and her attraction to Ralph Denham, with whom she feels a more profound and disturbing affinity
Editorials from the Hearst newspapers
by Arthur Brisbane
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4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the shadow of the glen
by J. M Synge
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4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,197 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Synge's first play, originally performed in 1903, is a bleak one-act set in an isolated farmhouse in Ireland. A tramp wanders into what seems a tragic scene a wife mourning her dead, and considerably older, husband. But when the wife leaves to find her lover, and the supposedly dead man returns to life, events take an unexpected turn
A personal record
by Joseph Conrad
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4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,195 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "A Personal Record (1912) both documents and fictionalizes Joseph Conrad's early life and the opening stages of his careers as a writer and as a seaman. It is also an artistic and political manifesto. The introduction traces Conrad's sources and gives the history of writing and reception. The essay on the text and the apparatus set out the textual history. The notes explain literary and historical references, identify places, and gloss foreign terms. Four maps and a genealogical table supplement this explanatory material. This edition of A Personal Record, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's reminiscences and the volume's two prefaces in forms more authoritative than any so far printed."--BOOK JACKET
War is kind
by Stephen Crane
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4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Excellent collection offers new insight into the mind and genius of an author primarily known for his fiction. Includes The Black Riders, War is Kind, and a selection from Crane's uncollected poetic works
Poems
by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
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4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An outcast of the islands
by Joseph Conrad
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4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Annotation
Last of the great scouts the life story of Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill")
by Helen Cody Wetmore
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4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,194 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A biographical account of the wide variety of experiences of Buffalo Bill Cody, from his early years as a mule driver, Pony Express rider, cavalry scout, Indian fighter, and buffalo hunter to becoming a celebrity with his "Wild West Show."
A master's degree
by Margaret Hill McCarter
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4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Beauty and the beast and tales of home
by Bayard Taylor
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4 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 1,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast
A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson
by William Morris
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4 editions published in 1994 in English and held by 1,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide This 1888 novel about the English Peasant's Revolt of 1381 and its leader, John Ball, is not historical fiction; rather, it is a time-travel fantasy in which the modern and medieval worlds collide. Morris casts the medieval realm in a golden, almost utopian light
The painter of "Diana of the tides"
by Walter Prichard Eaton
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4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A.V. Laider
by Max Beerbohm
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4 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,193 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Danny's own story
by Don Marquis
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4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Foundling boy's autobiography. Involves travel with patent medicine show
How to tell stories to children, and some stories to tell
by Sara Cone Bryant
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4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 1,192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Sara Cone Bryant is the author of How to Tell Stories To Children, Stories to tell the littlest ones. Bryant begins with suggestions on how to be a good storyteller. Bryant discusses the difference between telling a story and reading aloud. She believes telling is superior. She then covers the qualities of a good story and what children consider a good story. The following sections give suggestions of stories by grade levels. --publisher
Tales of unrest
by Joseph Conrad
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4 editions published in 1998 in English and held by 1,192 WorldCat member libraries worldwide "The five stories brought together in Tales of Unrest (1898) mark a turning point in the writer's career. Conrad's first short story collection evidences a writer firmly in control of his new craft staking a claim to diverse cultural and fictional territories. The introduction situates the writing of these stories in Conrad's career and discusses their sources and contemporary reception. The explanatory notes identify literary and historical references and real-life places, and indicate influences. Two maps and six illustrations enrich the explanatory matter. The essay on the text lays out the history of the work's composition and publication, details interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors, and explains editorial policy. This edition, established through modern textual scholarship, presents Conrad's stories and his preface to the collection in forms more authoritative than any so far printed"-- more
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