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Dinner with Racine
The celebrated French poet, Racine, having one day returned from Versailles, where he had been on a visit, was waited…
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Love Buried for Fifty Years
Some years ago, in making a new communication between two shafts of a mine at Fahkin, the capital of Delecarlia,…
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Unconditional Love
I love as you are as you seek to find your own special way to relate to the world, or…
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Achmed Abdullah The Dance on the Hill
The Dance on the Hill was published in Harper’s Monthly Magazine in October, 1918. “He would leave the bear alone, he decided, and the…
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Achmed Abdullah Strength of the Little Thin Thread
Strength of the Little Thin Thread was Abdullah’s first published story, appearing in Collier’s Weekly, September 21, 1912. IBRAHIM FADLALLAH shrugged bis…
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Achmed Abdullah Fear
Fear is the title story in the collection, Fear and Other Stories (1918). THE fact that the man whom he feared had died…
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Achmed Abdullah An Indian Jataka
An Indian Jataka affirms that “love demands eternal vigilance,” published in The Ten Foot Chain; or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? (1920). (A…
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Achmed Abdullah – An Act of Piety
An Act of Piety (1918) was considered one of the best short stories of 1918, first published in The All-Story Weekly. Its…
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Achmed Abdullah The Incubus
The Incubus brilliantly depicts the darkness that is Africa in this weird story of a white man alone in the jungle.…
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Eleanor Hallowell Abbott – The Indiscreet Letter
Halifax rail yard, 1900 The Railroad Journey was very long and slow. The Traveling Salesman was rather short and quick.…
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