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Excerpt from William and Bill Where's William? Aunt Amelia, slender, clad in discreet widows weeds, leading a patient small boy by the hand, made her inquiry. "Bill's around somewhere, " responded his mother from the porch steps. "Won't you come in?" Mrs. William Harvey, daughter-in-law of William Harvey the First, Rector of St. Jude's, relict of William Harvey the Second, mother of an emulous William Harvey the Third, continued her near-si...

Excerpt from Their First Formal Call Boy in an unnaturally clean, country-laundered collar walked down a long, white road. He scuffed the dust up wantonly, for he wished to veil the all-too-brilliant polish Of his cowhide Shoes. Also the memory Of the whiteness and Slipperiness Of his collar oppressed him. He was fain to look like one accustomed to social di versions, a man hurried from hall to hall Of pleasure, Without time between to Change...

Excerpt from The Power and the Glory Hose cradle's that 3 the sick woman's thin querulous tones arrested the man at the threshold. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whils...

Excerpt from Mistress Joy: A Tale of Natchez in 1798 "With Fate for oarsman, our lives do cross some devious waves of Time in company." Night was falling. To those in a canoe which slipped stealthily with the river toward the open, the hour and the scene held something sinister. But the three felt and expressed it differently. "Dorothea has fallen from grace again, father." The lips which uttered this solemn accusation were those of a litt...

Excerpt from The Grapple: A Story of the Illinois Coal Region There are two courses open to the writer of to day who loves to chronicle a good, rousing fight: he may take to the pages of history and the swash buckling romance, or he may study the economic warfare of our own day, which has its equivalent for every detail of that earlier strife. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

Excerpt from Wild Apples: A California Story When he got into the room, there was his mother looking very queer and excited - but very handsome, too. She called him over to her and took hold of his arm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology...

Excerpt from The Straight Road: With Illustrations The answer I gave my four-year-old, there in the dark of my little front yard, pungent with the keen odour of the big eucalyptus trees by the fence, covered the case so far as I, Callie Baird, then saw it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical ...

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All week in Johnnie the white flame of purpose burned out every consciousness of weariness, of bodily or mental distaste. The preposterously long hours, the ill-ventilated rooms, the savage monotony of her toil, none of these reached the girl through the glow of hope and ambition. Physically, the finger of the factory was already laid upon her vigorous young frame, but when Sunday morning came, though there was no bellowing whistle to break in...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.