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Chapter 12

In Percy Wynn, or Making a Boy of Him

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Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.

In this volume, which follows the author's popular book "Tom Playfair", a new boy is just arriving at St. Maure's boarding school.…

01 - Jean Bouchon

In The Book of Ghosts

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Sabine Baring-Gould

Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

To Stand, or Not to Stand

In The Three Clerks

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Anthony Trollope

The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…

Mrs. Blencarrow's Confession

In The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow

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Margaret O. Oliphant

The location is the English Lake District and the characters very ordinary people. Mrs. Blencarrow is a widow with five children and control…

Chapter 15

In The Countess of Rudolstadt

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George Sand

This sequel to Consuelo picks up not long after the striking conclusion of the first novel. Consuelo is enjoying a brilliant singing career…

Cheating the Gallows

In Grotesques and Fantasies

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Israel Zangwill

A set of often funny, sometimes tragic stories by Israel Zangwill. Most famous for his scathingly accurate portrayals of the Jewish ghetto, …

14 - Count Pateroff

In The Claverings

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Anthony Trollope

"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author T…

A Letter from Ethelred's Mamma

In Ethelred Preston; or, The Adventures of a Newcomer

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Francis J. Finn, S.J.

Ethelred Preston is a story for boys written by Fr. Finn, SJ. The hero, Ethelred, while on his way to college, meets Packy Jarloe, a peddler…

16 - Chapter XVI - "It Is Altogether Untrue."

In Kept in the Dark

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Anthony Trollope

Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, a…