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Cover of Patty's Suitors
by Carolyn Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet (born in Rahway, New Jersey, the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942. She had been married to Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire founded by Bernard Houghton."
Cover of Gaspar the Gaucho
by Captain Mayne Reid
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 October 22, 1883), was an Irish-American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes...
Cover of The Golden Snare
by James Oliver Curwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies, several of which starred Nell Shipman as a brave and adventurous woman in the wilds of the north. Many films from Curwood's...
Cover of The Mountain Chant: a Navajo Ceremony (c. 1900)
by Washington Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
Cover of The Treasure
by Kathleen Norris
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880, San Francisco, California January 18, 1966, Palo Alto, California) was an American novelist and wife of fellow writer Charles Norris, whom she wed in 1909. She was educated in a special course at the University of California and wrote...
Cover of The Illustrious Gaudissart and Gaudissart II, both long stories in a single file, in English translation
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic long stories, one a sequel to the other. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents...
Cover of Lost Illusions: Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, and Eve and David; all three novels in a single file, in English translation
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic novels. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the...
Cover of Pamela Giraud, five-act play in English translation
by Honore de Balzac
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Five-act play. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the...
Cover of The Myth of Hiawatha and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric of the North American Indians (1856)
by Henry R. Schoolcraft
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Collection of Native American myths, first published in 1856. According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans,...
Cover of Off-Hand Sketches, a Little Dashed with Humour
by T. S. Arthur
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Timothy Shay (T.S.) Arthur (6 June 1809 6 March 1885) was a popular nineteenth-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was also...
Cover of Penny Plain
by O. Douglas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "O. Douglas was the pen name of Anna Masterton Buchan (18771948), a Scottish novelist.[1] She was born in Pathhead, Scotland, the daughter of the Reverend John Buchan and Helen Masterton. She was the younger sister of John Buchan, the renowned statesman and author. She attended...
Cover of The Fete at Coqueville, short story in English translation
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic naturalist short story, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first...
Cover of His Masterpiece, from the Rougon-Macquart series of novels, in English translation
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. First published in 1886. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After...
Cover of Fruitfulness
by Emile Zola
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic naturalist novel, in English translation. According to Wikipedia: "Emile Zola (2 April 1840 - 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France...After his first major...
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