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Excerpt from Happiness Road A few weeks before Alice Hegan Rice died she said, "If anything should happen to me will you finish my book?" We were walking up and down our living room at the time, a habit we enjoyed between spells of reading aloud, and her words were as near as we ever approached the inevitable realization that one of us must go first. Into this book, a brave and beautiful attempt to help others, she had been putting her heart...

Excerpt from Calvary AlleyOU never would guess in visiting Cathedral Court, with its people's hall and its public baths, its clean, paved street and general air of smug propriety, that it harbors a notorious past. But those who knew it by its maiden name, before it was married to respectability, recall Calvary Alley as a region Of swarming tenements, stale beer dives, and frequent police raids. The sole remaining trace Of those unregenerate da...

Excerpt from A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill In spite of the fact that impertinent railroads were beginning to crawl about its feet, and the ¿otsam and jetsam of the adjacent city were gradually being deposited at its base, it nevertheless reared its granite shoulders proudly and defiantly against the sky. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This bo...

Excerpt from Quin If the dollar Quinby Graham tossed up on New Year's eve had not elected to slip through his fingers and roll down the sewer grating, there might have been no story to write. Quin had said, "Tails, yes", and who knows but that down there under the pavement that coin of fate was registering "Heads, no"? It was useless to suggest trying it over, however, for neither of the young privates with town leave for twenty-four hours po...

Excerpt from Miss. Mink's Soldier: And Other Stories For over forty years she had sat in that same pew facing that same minister, regarding him second only to his Maker, and striving in thought and deed to follow his precepts. But the time had come when Miss Mink 's blind allegiance wavered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a repr...

Excerpt from Mr. Opp Jimmy had been waiting since nine in the morning, and it was now well past noon. He was a placid gentleman of curvilinear type, short of limb and large of girth. His trousers, of that morose hue termed by the country people plum, reached to his armpits, and his hat, large and felt and weather-beaten, was only prevented from eclipsing his head by the stubborn resistance of two small, knob-like ears. About the Publisher F...

Excerpt from SandyHe was ragged and brawny and pictur esque. His hands, bronzed by the tan of sixteen summers, were clasped under his head, and his legs were crossed, one sole less shoe on high vaunting its nakedness in the face Of an indifferent world. A sailor's blouse, two Sizes too large, was held together at the neck by a bit of red cam bric, and his trousers were anchored to their mooring by a heavy piece of yellow twine. The indolence o...

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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.

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.