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The Camera Fiend

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E. W. Hornung


A London schoolboy playing hooky is drawn in to the clutches of a creature evil beyond imagining.(summary by Judi Mason)

The Lady of the Basement Flat

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


A naive young girl strikes out on her own and ends up leading a double life in this engaging tale of love lost and found. Summary by Judi M…

Pixie O'Shaughnessy

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


The first of a trilogy for girls which introduces Pixie O'Shaughnessy. She is sent to boarding school in England from her native Ireland, fu…

More About Pixie

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neigh…

Flaming June

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


The immensity of the gulf between England and the United States manifests itself on several levels in this story of a young girl’s innocent …

The Love Affairs of Pixie

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


This is the third book of the Pixie O’Shaughnessy trilogy. In a story of love lost and found, Pixie matures from an inexperienced young lass…

The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream

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Louis Pope Gratacap


This book is ostensibly about a theoretical catastrophic geologic event. It turns into a meditation on what it means to be an English person…

Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story

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Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


Impetuous, self-centered Rhoda goes to boarding school and learns hard lessons. This is a story of recklessness and forgiveness. (Summary b…

Children of the Tenements

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Jacob A. Riis


This is a collection of vignettes about poverty in New York City in the early 1900s. Jacob Riis was a police reporter and a sociologist. He …

A Little Journey

In Short Story Collection Vol. 064

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Ray Bradbury


This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rud…

Chapter 1 of The Romance Preceding The Reality - A Crowd

In Paved With Gold

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Augustus Mayhew


The expressed goal of this book is to "write a truthful account of the miseries of criminal life" (from the preface). Thus, this b…