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This travel book presents China as a subject for young readers, aiming to give a factual picture of the country’s land and people through close observation. It emphasizes everyday life, customs, and geographic understanding, while treating China’s history and political problems only briefly. The author’s long experience in travel and work in remote places is presented as the basis for the book’s account.
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Slim Hawkins is a cowpuncher on the Cross J outfit whose sour mood puzzles the other men until he explains that an aunt’s will has left him a chance at money only if he marries and can also show he can spend a large sum before a deadline. His friends keep needling him about his troubles, his appearance, and his prospects, while trying to make sense of the inheritance condition and what it means for his future.
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Set in Piperock, Montana, this western short story follows Ike Harper as he watches the town’s familiar figures: Magpie Simpkins, sheriff; Judge Steele; and three odd men known as Mighty Jones, Dirty Shirt Jones, and Jewelry Jones. Their names and habits are sketched in comic detail, and the action centers on a letter addressed to A. C., which all three Joneses claim as theirs, sparking a dispute at Wick Smith’s store and post-office.
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This volume presents Eugene Field as a Chicago humorist whose wit is broad, gentle, and sharply observant rather than merely conventional. It brings together lively sketches and raillery aimed at Chicago foibles and pretensions, while suggesting that the book represents only a small part of Field’s range as journalist, poet, and storyteller.
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In Paradise, Magpie Simpkins and Ike Harper encounter the town’s struggling parson, Old Testament Tilton, whose church is short of money and whose efforts to raise funds have gone badly. After Magpie gives him a little cash, the two men go into Mike Pelly’s saloon, where a loud-talking stranger reveals himself as John McBeth, a tragedian and former stage star. The men then discuss arranging a performance in Paradise, with Magpie saying it would be held under Baptist Church auspices and the proceeds split with the church.
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Ike Harper and Magpie Simpkins are running a modest mine when Franklyn Burt, a mining engineer, turns up and wins their trust with his practical knowledge. Burt later receives a letter that upsets him because it concerns Marion White, the woman he hopes to marry, and her guardians, the Van Veens, who have been managing her life and fortune. The story also explains that Marion’s uncle, Samuel White, was mistakenly reported dead in Brazil and is still alive, which has complicated the inheritance and the marriage plans.
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Two writers travel into Montana seeking firsthand material for an Old West story and decide to find it by going to where the frontier life is still immediate. On the stage from Paradise, they meet Dirty Shirt Jones and Ike Harper, whose rough humor and talk quickly shape the scene. Their conversation turns to literary ambitions, local color, and a request to be introduced to an outlaw, with the sheriff and Magpie also coming into the story.
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Herodotus traces a chain of events in Ionia and the Persian court, beginning with Darius’s favor toward Histiæus and his removal to Susa. It then turns to Miletus, where Aristagoras becomes involved in a plan to help exiles from Naxos regain their city, leading Otanes to authorize a large Persian expedition under Megabates. The narrative also recalls earlier civic strife in Miletus and the political calculations behind Persian and Greek alliances.
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Set in the heat around the Paradise depot, the story follows three cowboys waiting to receive a long-delayed cook stove for the Cross-J outfit. While they swap jokes and banter about singing, poetry, and train whistles, their wait is interrupted by the arrival of three women who seem to be looking for someone there.
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This book argues that a country’s progress depends on forming an intellectual elite, and it contrasts several levels of intellectual attainment from great geniuses to lesser but still useful leaders. It presents ambition, sustained work, careful preparation, and concentration on a limited field as the main conditions for rising above the average. Examples from science, literature, politics, and industry are used to illustrate these traits.
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Narrada amb to memorialístic, l’obra presenta un carreró barceloní estret i desigual situat entre el Portal Nou i el Passeig de Sant Joan, conegut com el carrer dels Petons. El narrador en descriu l’aspecte, l’origen del nom, l’estat antic i els canvis del veïnat, amb referències a la seva gent, els objectes acumulats al pas i alguns detalls dels edificis i espais propers. També emmarca aquest relat com una dedicatòria lligada a una antiga amistat.
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Elizabeth Bowen’s novel is set in a Riviera hotel where the routines of guests, servants, and visitors are watched with intense sensitivity. Miss Fitzgerald’s abrupt departure into the road and Miss Pym’s anxious movements through the lounge and staircase reveal a charged social atmosphere shaped by unease, observation, and private feeling. The arrival and movement of other women, including Mrs. Kerr, add to the novel’s focus on shifting relations and the uneasy connections formed in hotel life.
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Robert Bloch’s science-fiction story sends Thomas Jefferson, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Thomson into Independence Hall on the morning of July 4, 1776. The men speak in gangster slang while Franklin tries to keep their operation on track, with time-travel details and modern intrusions complicating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The setup centers on a comic attempt to revise the document before the rest of Congress arrives.
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This science-fiction story centers on Alph Agar, director of a Fly-Wheel manufacturing unit, who is suddenly forced to face a contest connected to visiting aliens. His assistant, Ker Kermit, enters both their names, while Agar is privately worried because he cannot operate a Fly-Wheel and fears the consequences if the matter is exposed. The story also develops Agar’s awkward attraction to his secretary, Jean-Jean, alongside the tension between executive status, rivalry, and the technical demands of his world.
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Set in London, this detective novel opens in the offices of Leverton & Carsdale, where John Carsdale reacts to a letter about a twenty-one-year-old who wants Barclay Leverton to handle a fortune of three hundred thousand pounds. As Carsdale weighs the chance for profit, he summons Mrs. Walsingham, a polished and enigmatic woman connected with the firm, and shows her the letter. The opening establishes an atmosphere of business intrigue, money, and suspicion around an inexperienced heir.
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