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This short story follows Pilot Rutter, an experienced San Francisco to Reno air mail flier known for never having been lost. He is irritated by the publicity another pilot, Page, receives after getting badly lost, and the story contrasts that notoriety with Rutter’s own workmanlike attitude. When Page cannot fly one morning, Rutter is called in for the run and faces a difficult trip over poor weather and the Sierra.
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Josephine Elizabeth Grey Butler writes about the conflict surrounding the Salvation Army in Switzerland and the authorities’ response to it. She frames the issue as a struggle over liberty of conscience, justice, and respect for individual rights, especially as these principles were applied to a young English woman associated with the movement. The book also reflects on Switzerland’s political and religious character and Butler’s own long involvement in defending such principles through her work.
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Sa scéal seo, bíonn Cormac Ua Conaill ina bhuachaill óg atá ag filleadh ón scoil nuair a labhraíonn seanduine rúndiamhair leis agus a thugann rann fáidhiúil dó. Spreagtar Cormac chun machnaimh ar bhrí na bhfocal, ar shaol na hÉireann faoi smacht na Sasanach, agus ar a mhian go bhfeicfeadh sé saoirse agus creideamh Caitliceach á gcosaint. De réir a thuiscint féin, ceanglaíonn sé an tuar le ceist na ceannaireachta i gcoibhneas le hIarla na Deasmhumhan agus le Seaghán, deartháir an Iarla.
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The novel is set around the Wedderburn family as news arrives that Cyril Wedderburn’s regiment may be ordered for foreign service, with the Crimea named as a possible destination. At a family breakfast, letters are opened and the household reacts with concern, while the presence of visitors and the mention of gambling losses add to the sense of strain. The story is framed as a fictional account woven with episodes connected to the Crimean War.
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Set during the buildup to the Crimean War, this volume follows Cyril Wedderburn as he returns to Chatham Barracks and prepares with Sir Edward Elton and the Royal Fusileers for embarkation to the East. Amid military routines, last mess nights, and talk of the coming voyage to Varna, Cyril also broods over his troubled ties to Mary Lennox and the changes in his personal life.
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Set during the Crimean War, the novel follows British, French, Turkish, and Greek officers around Varna and other military stations as they navigate camp life, camaraderie, and the strangeness of the Eastern theater. Horace and Cyril Wedderburn move among their brother officers, including French allies and familiar comrades, amid scenes in a crowded restaurant, where talk turns to service, local customs, and the hardships of war.
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In a rough mining camp hidden in the mountains, a rider follows a forked trail past crude warning signs, a wounded horseman, and signs of illegal or makeshift travel toward Caliente Flats. He reaches a hard-bitten settlement of shacks, saloons, and mines, then enters a restaurant where the room falls tense at his arrival and armed men react as if they know him. The opening establishes a Western mystery atmosphere built around a dangerous valley town and an encounter that could turn violent.
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Set in Manila’s hot Walled City near Burton Field, the story follows an Army pilot-narrator and his companion Prop Owens, who can identify people by voice and becomes unsettled after hearing a familiar one. Prop recognizes the speaker as Eddie Bride, a pilot known in the Service as a jinx, and his reaction suggests a past connection and concern over another man, Bert Allen. The opening establishes a tense air-service situation, local landmarks, and the heat and routines of military life in the Philippines.
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Set in an Arizona hotel and framed by a ranchman’s uneasy reaction to a man he believes he has seen from the past, the story begins with Major Remington Meeker and his nephew talking over the possible return of Gamblin’ Dan Glade. The major says he shot Dan years earlier in Texas and now fears Dan may be alive and seeking revenge, prompting him to explain the old trouble as he arms himself and starts recounting their days together in Tapwater.
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This volume presents the late poetry of Alice Meynell, with attention drawn to poems such as “Renouncement,” “Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age,” “San Lorenzo’s Mother,” and “To a Daisy.” The surrounding commentary places her work in the tradition of refined, spiritually oriented verse, emphasizing its distinctiveness, tenderness, and contemplative quality.
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A humorous short story follows two men who borrow a fire engine and a pair of helmets for a trip to Springfield, treating the rig as a ride rather than a response to an emergency. As they drive through towns, the siren and red vehicle cause confusion, send people into the streets, and attract volunteer firefighters and police who think they are heading to a fire. The story centers on their improvised journey and the comic misunderstandings it creates along the way.
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Ray Cummings’s novel follows Jack Dean, a broadcaster who is drawn to Moose Head Lake in Maine after a secret attack on a girls’ summer camp. There, amid police cordons, confusion, and conflicting accounts, he and aviator Jimmy Turk try to piece together what happened as missing girls, deaths, and the suspicion of an otherworldly threat unsettle New England.
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The story centers on an old shipbuilder who has retired to a beach shack and reflects on a last vessel he helped build, the Aleut, which was lost with all hands after striking a rock. Rumor and memory frame his belief that the sea hides its greatest tragedies, and the narrative turns to a night when Neptune himself is said to speak. That account describes a storm-lashed wreck, a fearful struggle among passengers and crew, and a captain trying to hold order as panic and mutiny rise aboard the stranded ship.
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This volume is a 1927 poetry collection by Elizabeth Bibesco, published in New York by George H. Doran Company and printed in Great Britain. The front matter also lists other books and plays by the author and dedicates the book to her beloved father.
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The book presents an autobiographical account of a girl born in Camden Town in 1887 who grows up amid poverty, family breakup, and repeated changes of guardians. She describes being passed among relatives, sent to a convent school with little education, and enduring beatings and neglect in several homes. After running away from her grandfather’s house, she is taken by a policeman to a police station and then to a workhouse, from which her grandmother later removes her.
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