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Excerpt from The Story of Christine RochefortTo the imaginative traveller there are few places that appeal more to the heart and intellect than the little gray town of Blois, nestling on the banks of the blue Loire, and surrounded by its noble forests. The kings that gave it fame in the far-off years have passed away, but the courtly robe they threw over their favorite place, though frayed and faded, is still worn with a regal air, and to the ...

Excerpt from At the Sign of the Silver Crescent The speaker was a young man of six or seven and twenty the listener a well-bred fox terrier, named for Paderewski, partly because his hair was very short, but chie¿y because his master owed a debt of gratitude to the great pianist for the pleasure that he had received at his hands (literally), and paid a part of it in thus showing his appreciation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes...

A Transatlantic Chatelaine - A novel is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks new...

bTitle:/b The Story of Christine Rochefort.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along wit...

bTitle:/b At the Sign of the Silver Crescent. [A novel.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million boo...

Excerpt from A Transatlantic Chatelaine: A NovelSome people are so persistently and consist ently followed by misfortune that it is difficult for the most tender-hearted to restrain an ex pression of annoyance at each new blow given to the unlucky one. It is hard to believe that the victim has not himself to thank sometimes for his reverses. To this class of unfortunates belonged Gilbert Edwards. Born in the early twenties of this century, the...

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