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The Triumph of “Curly” by Ralph Henry Barbour
“Curly” sat with head in hands, elbows on desk, and eyes fixed unseeingly on the half-opened door. The afternoon sunlight…
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About The Monk Amador by Honore de Balzac
About the Monk Amador, Who was a Glorious Abbot of Turpenay One day that it was drizzling with rain–a time…
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A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac
“The whole show is dreadful,” she cried, coming out of the menagerie of M. Martin. She had just been looking…
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At the Sign of the Cat and Racket by Honore de Balzac
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket was first published in 1830, translated by Clara Bell.Half-way down the Rue…
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Bertha the Penitent by Honore de Balzac
I. How Bertha Remained a Maiden in the Married State About the time of the first flight of the Dauphin,…
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Concerning A Poor Man Who Was Called Le Vieux Par-chemins by Honore de Balzac
The old chronicler who furnished the hemp to weave the present story, is said to have lived at the time…
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Concerning A Provost Who Did Not Recognise Things by Honore de Balzac
In the good town of Bourges, at the time when that lord the king disported himself there, who afterwards abandoned…
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Despair In Love by Honore de Balzac
Balzac admits Despair in Love has little to teach us other than there are unlucky meetings in life. Speaking of…
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How the Chateau d’Azay Came to be Built by Honore de Balzac
Jehan, son of Simon Fourniez, called Simonnin, a citizen of Tours– originally of the village of Moulinot, near to Beaune,…
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How The Pretty Maid Of Portillon Convinced Her Judge by Honore de Balzac
The Maid of Portillon, who became as everyone knows, La Tascherette, was, before she became a dyer, a laundress at…
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