What Sami Sings with the Birds
Category: Author:Johanna Spyri
OLD MARY ANN,AT THE GRANDMOTHER’S,ANOTHER LIFE,HARD TIMES,THE BIRDS ARE STILL SINGING,SAMI SINGS TOO
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Category: Author:Johanna Spyri
OLD MARY ANN,AT THE GRANDMOTHER’S,ANOTHER LIFE,HARD TIMES,THE BIRDS ARE STILL SINGING,SAMI SINGS TOO
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Category: Author:Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The novel is about women owning and running a business.
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Category: Author:novel
The summer had been cool; but, as often happens after cool summers, the autumn proved unusually hot. It seemed as if the months had been playing a game, and had "changed places" all round; and as if September were determined to show that he knew how to make himself just as disagreeable as August, if only he chose to do ...
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Category: Author:novel
The September sun was glinting cheerfully into a pretty bedroom furnished with blue. It danced on the glossy hair and bright eyes of two girls, who sat together hemming ruffles for a white muslin dress. The half-finished skirt of the dress lay on the bed; and as each crisp ruffle was completed, the girls added it to the snowy hea...
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Category: Author:novel
I was sitting in the meadows one day, not long ago, at a place where there was a small brook. It was a hot day. The sky was very blue, and white clouds, like great swans, went floating over it to and fro. Just opposite me was a clump of green rushes, with dark velvety spikes, and among them one single tall, red cardinal flower, w...
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Category: Author:novel
The town of Shannon lay like a wreath flung wide upon the hills above one of those long, green, fertile valleys to be seen everywhere below the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Georgia. It was nothing like a city, merely a neat, little town built by thrifty people since the Civil War. Therefore, there were no colonial residences in ...
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Pte. Clarke of the Orderly Room staff told me how my coming as Chaplain to the 43rd in 1917 was announced to the men attached to Battalion Headquarters. They were "killing time" off duty in one of the cellars under the brick-piles on the flats facing Avion. I give it in his own words as well as memory recalls them.
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Category: Author:novel
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely settled—but the very definitiveness with whic...
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Category: Author:novel
A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own, lived with his wife and children in a peasant’s hut, and earned his living by his work. Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what he earned he spent for food. The man and his wife had but one sheepskin coat between them for winter wear, and even that was...
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Category: Author:novel
I originally called this book “What is Wrong,” and it would have satisfied your sardonic temper to note the number of social
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