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The Come Back (Esprios Classics)

Author : Carolyn Wells

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Page : 204 pages

File Size : 42,22 MB

Release : 2019-08-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0359850820

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Carolyn Wells wrote a total of more than 170 books. During the first ten years of her career, she concentrated on poetry, humor, and children's books. According to her autobiography, The Rest of My Life (1937), she heard That Affair Next Door (1897), one of Anna Katharine Green's mystery novels, being read aloud and was immediately captivated by the unraveling of the puzzle. From that point onward she devoted herself to the mystery genre. Among the most famous of her mystery novels were the Fleming Stone Detective Stories. The Clue (1909) is on the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone list of essential mysteries. She was also the first to conduct an annual series devoted to the best short crime fiction of the previous year in the U.S., beginning with The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931) (though others had begun a similar British series in 1929).



An Accursed Race and The Half-Brothers (Esprios Classics)

Author : Elizabeth Gaskell

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 43 pages

File Size : 41,31 MB

Release : 2017-08-06

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1387148028

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Two short stories, from the English novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, whose writings can be seen as critiques of Victorian era attitudes, particularly those toward women, with complex narratives and dynamic women characters. Some of Gaskell's best known novels are Cranford (1851-53), North and South (1854-55), and Wives and Daughters (1865).







The Mountain Divide (Esprios Classics)

Author : Frank H. Spearman

Publisher : Lulu.com

Page : 172 pages

File Size : 16,67 MB

Release : 2019-09-22

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 035993529X

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Frank Hamilton Spearman (September 6, 1859 - December 29, 1937) was an American author. Spearman was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads. Although he wrote prolifically about railroads, his actual career was that of a bank president in McCook, Nebraska, and did not himself work for a railroad. Spearman was also a devout Roman Catholic convert and held political views best described as proto-Libertarian, both of which beliefs are also reflected in his novels.



The House by the Lock (Esprios Classics)

Author : A. M. Williamson

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Page : 150 pages

File Size : 15,37 MB

Release : 2019-08-13

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0359850677

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Alice Muriel Williamson was an American-British novelist. She was born in America, the daughter of Mark Livingston of Poughkeepsie. She came to England when young. In 1894, soon after arrival in England, she married the magazine editor Charles Norris Williamson (1859-1920), "the first editor to whom she presented an introduction." Many of her books were jointly written with her husband. After her marriage she introduced herself as Mrs. C. N. Williamson. A number of their novels cover the early days of motoring and can also be read as travelogues. Alice apparently said of her husband "Charlie Williamson could do anything in the world except write stories" she said of herself "I can't do anything else." She continued to write after her husband's death in 1920.