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A rich Colorado mine suddenly reveals a vein of pure gold on the boundary between the Elkhorn and the neighboring Henderson property. The discovery creates an immediate dispute over ownership, with Hard Sturdivant eager to control the strike and Clark Henderson facing a looming mortgage deadline on his idle mine. Friends and miners weigh secrecy, honesty, and loyalty while Clark and Steve Conley race to put the Summit back into operation.
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This book presents Remy de Gourmont as a French writer and critic whose work defies convention through paradox, irony, and intellectual independence. It emphasizes his defense of individualism, his resistance to social and literary orthodoxies, and his sympathetic judgments of writers and movements such as symbolism and decadence. The volume is introduced as an English translation with an introductory essay.
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Joseph McCabe’s book offers a brief guide to the classics for readers who want a simple introduction rather than a scholarly study. It explains what counts as a classic, sketches the earliest written traditions from Egypt, Babylonia, Persia, India, and China, and then turns to Greece as the first source of works prized mainly for literary brilliance. The opening also situates Homer as the first great Greek poet.
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The Dashwoods, an Australian rural family, spend time in the city while visiting different places and attractions. Mrs. Dashwood grows weary of urban life and longs for Fairfield and the farm, while the children bicker, joke, and plan separate outings. Old John also meets an old friend in town, and the family’s stay is marked by comic misunderstandings and lively domestic banter.
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In Piperock, Montana, Ike Harper hears Magpie Simpkins pretending to be in a dramatic scene and learns that Magpie has become interested in acting. Magpie explains that Madame Della Selva has arrived in town to mount a home-talent stage production called For the Love of Annibel at the old Mint dance hall, and he expects to take part. Despite Ike’s misgivings, the two head to the gathering where townspeople have come to discuss the play.
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Set in an English village vicarage, the novel centers on the clergyman’s household, his younger wife Griselda, and the disruptive presence of parish life. Tensions build around the opinionated Colonel Protheroe, a strict curate, church finances, and a parishioner’s complaint, all filtered through the vicar’s dry, uneasy view of his home and congregation. The story is framed as a murder mystery in which these everyday quarrels and suspicions gather around the vicarage.
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This book presents notes from a young minister in an industrial Detroit pastorate, recording what he sees, hears, and thinks about church life and the problems of modern ministry. It reflects on social conflict, the church’s work among the poor, and the pressure to balance Christian ideals with the realities of urban civilization. The volume is framed as a candid diary-like record of a questioning clergyman who examines both his own impulses and the wider life of the church.
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Set in the Mughal court, this volume follows Jehangire’s struggle against the rebellion led by his son Chusero, whose party gathers support from Rajaput chiefs and disaffected troops. As the rebels move from Muttra toward Delhi and then Lahore, the emperor responds by assembling a large army and preparing to lead it himself, while court politics are unsettled by rival appointments and widespread mistrust.
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This volume gathers short pieces first written for Bentley’s Miscellany, including sketches of Mudfog and its civic life. Mudfog is presented as a wet, smoky riverside town with many public houses, a conspicuous town hall, and a mayor and corporation who spend long nights debating small local matters. One prominent figure is Nicholas Tulrumble, a coal-dealer turned wealthy resident whose rise and habits are described satirically.
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Set soon after the war in the Indiana town of Honeyport on the Wabash, this story follows Miss Callista Rogers, a Vermont schoolteacher who arrives expecting a rough frontier outpost. She adapts to teaching in a village school, but she remains sharply critical of the town’s flat landscape, loose street habits, and plain dress. In her private talks with the pastor’s wife, her New England standards are set against the customs of her new neighbors.
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A young Philadelphia lawyer is sent to Canada to trace the long-missing James Hogarth, whose estate may pass to the British crown. His search leads him toward Craighead Hall, a remote place surrounded by rumor, where locals warn that its owner, Hugh Craighead, keeps company with criminals and that visitors may not return safely. The narrator, drawn by the case and by the promise of proving himself, travels alone through the wilderness toward this unsettling destination.
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This volume presents John Milton’s ode "On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity," a poem on the birth of Jesus Christ. The metadata identifies it as English poetry from the early modern period, and the text also notes that the work is reproduced with original spelling and punctuation largely retained, with a few verified corrections.
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Set partly in West Africa and later in Harrogate, the novel follows Dr. Atherley and Captain Fletcher as they discuss a feared raider known as the Hyena and suspect he may be linked to Essel Lebrassa, a wealthy mulatto businessman with a black partner and a reputation for secrecy. The story then shifts to a hotel tea room where a young white woman sits apart with a coal-black man who appears possessive, drawing attention from the other guests.
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This short science fiction story follows Old Sam Button, a driven physicist and advocate for space flight who spends years promoting and preparing a moon mission. He helps secure the funding, oversees the building of the station and spaceship, and leads the celebrated first landing on the Moon. The story centers on the historic moment aboard the lunar craft and the surprising problem at the door that gives the tale its title.
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Merab Eberle’s short science-fiction piece centers on a scientist named MacDowell, working in the Black Hills, who claims to have found a substance called the mordant. The narrator, a reporter, follows MacDowell’s work as it moves from skepticism and public disbelief toward a startling explanation: the mordant can slow aging and preserve youth, though MacDowell rejects the idea of endless life as a blessing. The story frames immortality as a question of whether extending bodily youth would truly help humanity.
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