There's plenty of slapstick humor with pranks and tricks being played by the children.
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published in 1891 and dramatized in 1897. The Little Minister is set in Thrums, a Scottish weaving village based on Barrie’s birthplace, and concerns Gavin Dishart, a young impoverished min
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Betty, a sixteen year old American girl who's visiting England, is invited, along with her widowed father, to attend a Christmas house party at the home of a woman Betty adores.
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This is Bennett's first novel, the story of a young man from the north of England who arrives in London to seek his fortune. By day he works as a clerk in an office but has aspirations of becoming a
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The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett's finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James's diminutives,
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Daniel Deronda: a Victorian novel that's still controversial George Eliot shocked readers and critics with a final novel whose portrayal of Judaism and Zionism continues to resonate 'A peculiar ...Th
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He dreamed his pastoral dreams in the deafening clangor of the shops at Crewe, but not ten thousand hammers could beat out of his brain the faith that life was really-little as one might suppose it,
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It has been considered important throughout the human history,and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for presen
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Lord Dunsany’s most popular book is The King of Elfland's Daughter.
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I was in Italy when this book was first published.A year later (1912) I visited London, and I found that most of my friends and acquaintances spoke to me of Zu-like-a—a name which I hardly
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They were terribly sentimental words, but the fellow sang them as though he meant every syllable. Altogether, the song was not the kind of thing to go down with a back-block audience, any more than t
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