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Hans Christian Andersen – What The Old Man Does Is Always Right
I WILL tell you a story that was told me when I was a little boy. Every time I thought…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – A Rivermouth Romance
A Rivermouth Romance was published in the anthology, Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor (1903). “If you’re a married man, all I have…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – Marjorie Daw
Majorie Daw is an epistolary story that caused quite a sensation after its publication in The Atlantic Monthly, April 1873 for its…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – Miss Mehetabel’s Son
A MAN with a passion for bric-à-brac is always stumbling over antique bronzes, intaglios, mosaics, and daggers of the time…
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich – The Cruise of the Dolphin
(1 An episode from The Story of a Bad Boy, the narrator being Tom Bailey, the hero of the tale.)…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Christmas Dream, and How It Came to Be True
“I’m so tired of Christmas I wish there never would be another one!” exclaimed a discontented-looking little girl, as she…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Country Christmas
“A handful of good life is worth a bushel of learning.” Dear Emily, –I have a brilliant idea, and at…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Happy Birthday
A certain fine old lady was seventy-three on the 8th of October. The day was always celebrated with splendor by…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Hole in the Wall
PART I. If any one had asked Johnny Morris who were his best friends, he would have answered,– “The sun…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Modern Cinderella
A short story published in 1860 considered “modern”? Louisa May Alcott bestows a truly amusing and thoroughly modern retelling of…
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