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  • The Ultimate Christmas Collection: 150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

    by Louisa May Alcott, James Allen, Hans Christian Andersen, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, Anton Chekhov, G. K. Chesterton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, F. Marion Crawford, Emily Dickinson, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Van Dyke, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Kenneth Grahame, Thomas Hardy, Frances Ridley Havergal, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Felicia Hemans, O. Henry, Oliver Herford, E. T. A. Hoffmann, William Dean Howells, Ben Jonson, Washington Irving, John Keble, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, Selma Lagerlöf, Winifred Kirkland, Andrew Lang, Stephen Leacock, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, H. P. Lovecraft, George MacDonald, Charles Mackay, William Topaz McGonagall, Alice Duer Miller, Emily Huntington Miller, Olive Thorne Miller, John Milton, S. Weir Mitchell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clement C. Moore, William Morris, Mary Noailles Murfree, John Mason Neale, Thomas Nelson Page, Elia W. Peattie, Marjorie Pickthall, Beatrix Potter, Katharine Pyle, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mary Darby Robinson, Christina Rossetti, Damon Runyon, Saki, Walter Scott, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Shakespeare, Nora Archibald Smith, Robert Southwell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frank Stockton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, John Addington Symonds, John Banister Tabb, Booth Tarkington, Nahum Tate, Sara Teasdale, Lord Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Thring, Henry Timrod, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Tusser, Mark Twain, Katharine Tynan, Henry Vaughan, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Lucy Wheelock, John G. Whittier, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Oscar Wilde, John Strange Winter, George Wither, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, Jane Austen, Lewis Carroll, George Orwell, Agatha Christie, F. Scott Fitzgerald, H.P. Lovecraft, Virginia Woolf, Edgar Allan Poe ...
    If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels, ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Silas Lapham

    by William Dean Howells ...
    The classic novel about an ordinary man's ascent into wealthy Boston circles, and its effect on him and his family.Thanks to hard work and good fortune, Silas Lapham succeeds financially in the paint business. But money and class are not the same thing, and the Laphams struggle to feel they truly fit in amid New England's social aristocracy.When they move into a luxurious home in the elite Back ... Read more

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  • A Hazard of New Fortunes -Volume 5

    by William Dean Howells ...
    The novel is set in New York City and follows the lives of a diverse group of characters who come from various social backgrounds. The central character is Basil March, a journalist who, along with his family, becomes embroiled in the lives and struggles of those around him. The story delves into the challenges faced by the characters as they navigate the complexities of urban life, including ... Read more

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  • Five O'Clock Tea: Farce

    by William Dean Howells ...
    In "Five O'Clock Tea: Farce," Howells likely explores the conventions and absurdities of social gatherings, particularly the tradition of afternoon tea, which was a popular social ritual during the late 19th century. The play may feature humorous situations, misunderstandings, and satirical commentary on the manners and customs of the upper class.As with many farces, "Five O'Clock Tea" is likely ... Read more

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  • The Forgotten Authors - Volume 5: The Brothers Grimm to William Dean Howells

    by The Brothers Grimm, James Hilton, William Dean Howells ...
    Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. ... Read more

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  • Different Girls

    by Ed. William Dean Howells ...
    Different girls is a collection of interwoven short narratives that examine the varied experiences of young women within American society. Each story offers a distinct portrait of personal aspiration, emotional conflict, and social expectation, presenting individuality within shared cultural frameworks. The anthology reflects on family duty, romantic attachment, independence, and the subtle ... Read more

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  • A Hazard of New Fortunes, second part of the March Family Trilogy, all five volumes in a single file

    by William Dean Howells ...
    Second part of the March Family Trilogy. All five volumes in a single file. According to Wikipedia: "William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic... In 1858, he began to work at the Ohio State Journal where he wrote poetry, short stories, and also translated pieces from French, Spanish, and German. He avidly studied German and other languages ... Read more

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  • Five O'Clock Tea: Farce

    Enriched edition. A Satirical Look at 19th Century High Society Gatherings

    by William Dean Howells, Tristan Oakley ...
    In "Five O'Clock Tea: Farce," William Dean Howells masterfully weaves a comedic tapestry that explores societal norms and the absurdities of social interactions. Set against the backdrop of late 19th-century America, this engaging one-act play employs witty dialogue and incisive characterizations, emphasizing the farcical nature of social conventions. Howells's deft use of humor serves not only to ... Read more

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  • A Hazard of New Fortunes-Complete

    by William Dean Howells ...
    The story is set in New York City during the late 19th century and follows the lives of various characters, both native-born and immigrants, as they navigate the complexities of American society and strive for success. The central narrative focuses on the clash of social classes and the challenges faced by those attempting to climb the social and economic ladder."A Hazard of New Fortunes" is known ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Silas Lapham

    by William Dean Howells ...
    Silas Lapham's long-lasting paint, made with minerals found on his family's farm in Vermont, has helped make him a millionaire-as has hard work, ambition, and tough business sense. Now that he's reached late middle age, he's a success. A newspaper is writing him up in its "Solid Men of Boston" series, his family goes to seaside resorts in the summer, the scion of the aristocratic Covey family has ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Hazard of New Fortunes

    by William Dean Howells ...
    Basil March jumps at the chance to leave his boring job to become the founding editor of a new magazine. But this also means that he must leave comfortable Boston for the confusion and chaos of 1890s New York. As March and his wife try to find a decent place to live, he also struggles to find contributors and readers. The Marches are quickly drawn into the tangled lives of their fellow New Yorkers ... Read more

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  • Indian Summer

    by William Dean Howells ...
    In his forties and still a bachelor, Theodore Colville is at loose ends after selling his Indiana newspaper. He decides to go back to Florence, Italy, where two decades ago a love affair of his ended badly. Soon after returning, he runs into an old friend, Evalina Bowen, who knew the girl who jilted him and who is now a chaperone for Imogene Graham, a girl of about twenty. Imogene is exciting and ... Read more

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