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This collection centers on American short fiction and domestic social life in the nineteenth century. One story opens with a marital dispute over a decorative scarlet paper poppy and quickly widens into an argument about money, property, and the rights of a wife’s separate income. The volume is issued by Harper & Brothers in New York.
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Helen R. Hull’s short story follows Anne Stephens as she looks back from her early forties on a few childhood scenes that shaped her understanding of her family. The memories center on her parents’ strained but intimate marriage, her mother’s sharp authority, her father’s quieter temper, her mother’s greater attachment to her eldest brother, and Anne’s own wish for a baby and a place in the household. The story presents a domestic life marked by love, jealousy, grief, and the limited roles available to women in the family.
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This Western novel centers on William F. Cody, known as Buffalo Bill, and presents him as a scout, rider, soldier, hunter, and showman. It follows his early life in Iowa and Kansas, his service in the Civil War and later Indian campaigns, and his rise to fame through buffalo hunting and Wild West exhibitions. The book also frames these adventures as part of a broader series of Western tales linked to Prentiss Ingraham’s stories about Cody.
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Set during Spain’s conquest drives in the early sixteenth century, this historical novel follows Francisco Pizarro’s troubled expedition in the South Sea region and the crisis it provokes in Panama. As rumors of hardship and failure spread, Almagro, Father Luque, and their allies try to defend the enterprise before Governor de los Rios, who prepares to end the venture and recall the men from Gallo. Alonso de Molina emerges as a key intermediary, caught between the governor’s orders and the hopes of Pizarro’s supporters.
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At a country-house week-end party, Mary Hampton and her guests discuss the striking Ivy Lexton, her marriage to Jervis, and the pressure of the couple’s financial troubles. The conversation also centers on Miles Rushworth, whom Mary hopes may find Jervis work, while others speculate about Ivy’s effect on men and her carefully managed charm. The book opens amid social observation, flirtation, and hints of a mystery tied to the Lextons’ situation in London society.
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Nel 1897 a Roma, in una casa di via Arenula gestita da Palmira Girelli, un delitto sconvolge il quartiere e attira l’attenzione della città. Al centro della vicenda ci sono Amanda di Valberta, il clown Robody e il conte Romolo Laureati, indicato come sospetto dopo l’omicidio di Amanda e Robody. Il racconto si concentra sulle circostanze della casa, sulla posizione della locandiera e sulle prime testimonianze raccolte.
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Philippa, a young woman with poor eyesight and a habit of hiding behind her hair and glasses, lives on a farm where a man’s visit and her family’s comments make her feel uneasy. While shelling peas, she has a sudden, unusually clear vision of a purple cloud over Hump Back Mountain and becomes absorbed in the experience of seeing differently. The story also shifts to a separate group arriving in a folded loop, guided by a crystal and searching for the right place for their idol.
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This science-fiction crime story follows Public Police Officer Brad Raynor on his first days in the highly trained police system of the 32nd century. While he finds routine patrol work dull, he is suddenly sent after a violent fugitive who has killed an officer and fled in an air-car through Nyork. The setup centers on Brad’s new uniform, his police education, and the contrast between everyday domestic calls and a serious manhunt.
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Dwight V. Swain’s science-fiction adventure follows Stone, who encounters a terrifying alien creature at a top-secret desert base after a woman stumbles into the road and is seized by the translucent monster. He fights the fast-moving being with a pistol and then by hand as it attacks with tentacles and a purple beam, while the woman warns him about the light. The story centers on survival, an apparent alien threat to Earth, and the immediate danger surrounding the encounter.
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Rackham is a Sussex country house owned in the early twentieth century by Henry Maple, a widower with one young son. The book sketches the house, its long and mixed history, its comfortable interior, and the small household that supports a life rooted in the surrounding land and only loosely connected to London. It sets up a satiric picture of English rural gentry and their setting rather than a conventional mystery plot.
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In this Alaska story, Dave Sloan and his partner Sam quarrel over Dave’s habit of boasting about bear hunting and misleading a young schoolteacher, Mary Hanna, who is in love with him. Sam decides to warn Mary that Dave has never killed a bear, but Mary is not persuaded and instead presses Dave for a bear rug to match her eyes. The tale centers on their talk of truthfulness, romance, and the difference between brown bears and black bears.
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Nathan Appleton recounts his 1866 Atlantic crossing from New York to Brest and the month he spent in Paris before continuing to Russia. He sketches the shipboard world of his voyage in lively detail, including the mix of travelers, conversation, card playing, and the captain’s routine presence. The book is framed as a travel narrative from an American visitor observing Europe and moving on toward Russia.
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Moods is Mercedes de Acosta’s first volume, made up of brief prose fragments or vignettes that resist easy classification. The pieces are described as vivid, singable, and atmospheric, combining mystery with an intense human feeling and a direct interest in ordinary people and situations. The book is presented as a collection of short glimpses of experience rather than traditional poems.
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Set in one of Salem’s oldest and most neglected cemeteries, the story follows caretaker Old Masson as he wages a losing battle against unusually large rats that have colonized the graves. His attempts to trap, poison, and shoot them fail, while rumors about hidden burrows, stolen bodies, and darker forces beneath the cemetery deepen the unease. As Masson works a rain-soaked grave at night, he discovers the rats have reached the coffin before he can.
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A biography of Mata Hari presents her as a dancer and vaudeville star whose beauty and personality drew unusual public sympathy, even as she became identified with espionage. It frames her as a figure wrapped in romantic legend and disputed stories, while insisting on a factual account of her life and the wartime intelligence world around her. The book also reflects the author’s experience with counter-espionage and his effort to avoid revealing details that could endanger people still involved in such work.
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