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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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After her mother’s death, a twenty-four-year-old woman is left suddenly alone in the rooms they shared at Norwood. Grief makes her feel disoriented and estranged from her surroundings, while she recalls their close bond, their modest plans to travel, and the trusted clergyman Mr. Lovett who manages their small capital. The opening presents her shock, loneliness, and helplessness in the days immediately following the loss.
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Craig Rice’s story follows a lonely young man in a hillside town who meets a golden, seemingly fragile woman in a bar and is drawn into an intimate relationship with her. Their time together is brief and dreamlike: he takes her home, cares for her with great caution, and senses there is something uncanny about her presence, speech, and habits. Later, as a mature man, he still remembers that period as the happiest of his life, while the town’s burned-out remains suggest the event has become a half-forgotten legend.
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Rall Hollidge is a slow, heavy lion hunter whose life in the Yargod Hills is tied to his dogs, especially the useless but beloved Old Slowpoke. He is also caught in a rivalry with Lew Rines for the hand of Jane Saunders, daughter of the Double S Ranch, while her father appears to favor Rines. The story follows a hunt, Hollidge’s loyalty to his dog, and his arrival late for supper at the ranch after Jane has waited for him.
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This volume presents the correspondence associated with James Hackman and Martha Reay, whose story drew wide attention in 1779 and again after a later anonymous publication used altered versions of some of the letters. It also incorporates material connected with Thomas Chatterton, including his papers and a long inserted account of his life and writings, which later readers found unevenly fitted into the book. The work is linked to Sir Herbert Croft’s larger project of combining literary material with the Hackman-Reay affair.
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Set in the Holmshire countryside near Copley Grange, the story centers on Friarton Mill, an old water mill whose place in the landscape shapes the life around it. The opening describes the mill, the manor house beside it, and the family history of the estate, including a young squire who manages the property and improves on an earlier ancestor’s alterations. It also notes his role in overseeing an almshouse endowment and building a new row of cottages for local labourers.
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Modes and Morals is a collection of Katharine Fullerton Gerould essays on American social life and customs. The opening essay examines how democracy, war, and labor-saving inventions have altered domestic life, especially through plumbing, household conveniences, and the contrast between American self-service and European reliance on servants. The volume also includes essays such as A Change of Air, Hawaii: Scenes and Impressions, Vain Oblations, and The Great Tradition.
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This volume follows Oliver Constable in Friarton as he tries to encourage interests beyond breadmaking and milling, including gardening, fruit trees, cricket, and natural history. He suggests a field naturalists’ society and begins drawing in workers from his shop, even as Jack Dadd dismisses the idea as impractical and mocks amateur collecting. Oliver also visits an old museum keeper and helps revive neglected butterfly specimens, but the young baker he recruits feels embarrassed by the attention.
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In this volume of Sarah Tytler’s novel, Harry Stanhope continues to pose as a yeoman while becoming deeply involved in farm work, markets, hunting, and social visits around Copley Grange and Friarton Mill. His easy, intrusive friendship with Oliver Constable and his attention to Fan Constable shape the domestic tension, while Oliver tolerates the young man’s frequent appearances with mixed annoyance and affection. The book presents rural English life, class feeling, and the everyday business of farming and milling in winter.
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