| | 24 | Author: | Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 | Add | | | Title: | Ragged Dick, or, Street Life in New York  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | Cover of Ragged Dick
Magenta cloth cover embossed with victorian design
Spine of Ragged Dick
Magenta cloth, gold embossed with title and image of the main character.
Frontispiece of Ragged Dick
Engraving of the main character, his shoe-shine box before him. He is standing outdoors, apparently in front of a public park.
Title Page of Ragged Dick | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 25 | Author: | Allen, Raymund | Add | | | Title: | A Happy Solution | | | | Published: | 1993 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The portmanteau, which to Kenneth Dale's strong arm had been little
more than a feather-weight on leaving the station, seemed to have
grown heavier by magic in the course of the half-mile that brought him
to Lord Churt's country house. He put the portmanteau down in the
porch with a sense of relief to his cramped arm, and rang the bell. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 27 | Author: | Andreyev, Leonid | Add | | | Title: | Lazarus | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | WHEN Lazarus left the grave, where, for three days and
three nights he had been under the enigmatical sway
of death, and returned alive to his dwelling, for a long time no
one noticed in him those sinister oddities, which, as time went
on, made his very name a terror. Gladdened unspeakably by the
sight of him who had been returned to life, those near to him
carressed him unceasingly, and satiated their burning desire
to serve him, in solicitude for his food and drink and garments.
And they dressed him gorgeously, in bright colors of hope and
laughter, and when, like to a bridegroom in his bridal vestures,
he sat again among them at the table, and again ate and drank,
they wept, overwhelmed with tenderness. And they summoned
the neighbors to look at him who had risen miraculously from
the dead. These came and shared the serene joy of the hosts.
Strangers from far-off towns and hamlets came and adored the
miracle in tempestuous words. Like to a beehive was the house
of Mary and Martha. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 30 | Author: | Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941 | Add | | | Title: | The Triumph of the Egg | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | MY father was, I am sure, intended by nature to be a cheerful,
kindly man. Until he was thirty-four years old he worked as a
farm-hand for a man named Thomas Butterworth whose place lay near the
town of Bidwell, Ohio. He had then a horse of his own and on Saturday
evenings drove into town to spend a few hours in social intercourse
with other farm-hands. In town he drank several glasses of beer and
stood about in Ben Head's saloon—crowded on Saturday evenings with
visiting farm-hands. Songs were sung and glasses thumped on the bar.
At ten o'clock father drove home along a lonely country road, made his
horse comfortable for the night and himself went to bed, quite happy in
his position in life. He had at that time no notion of trying to rise
in the world. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 34 | Author: | Crane review: Anonymous | Add | | | Title: | Stephen Crane : author of The black riders and other lines | | | | Published: | 1995 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | You will look in vain through the pages of the Trade
Circular for any record of a story of New York life entitled
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, which was published three or
four years ago in this city. At the moment of going to press the
timorous publishers withdrew their imprint from the book, which was
sold, in paper covers, for fifty cents. There seems to be
considerable difficulty now in securing copies, but the fact that
there is no publisher's name to the book, and that the author
appears under the nom de plume of "Johnston Smith," may have
something to do with its apparent disappearance. The copy which
came into the writer's possession was addressed to the Rev. Thomas
Dixon a few months ago, before the author went West on a
journalistic trip to Nebraska, and has these words written across
the cover: "It is inevitable that this book will greatly shock you,
but continue, pray, with great courage to the end, for it tries to
show that environment is a tremendous thing in this world, and
often shapes lives regardlessly. If one could prove that theory,
one would make room in Heaven for all sorts of souls (notably an
occasional street girl) who are not confidently expected to be
there by many excellent people." The author of this story and the
writer of these words is Stephen Crane, whose "Lines" (he does not
call them poems) have just been published by Copeland and Day, and
are certain to make a sensation. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 36 | Author: | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888: Anonymous review | Add | | | Title: | "Little Women" on the Stage | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | At last there is to be a stage version of Little Women,
that story which since its publication in 1868 has appealed to so
many generations of readers. The dramatisation has been made by
Miss Jessie Bonstelle (Mrs. Alexander Stuart), who for eight years
has been working to obtain the necessary permission. The
copyrights were in the possession of Miss Alcott's two nephews, the
famous twins, "Daisy" and "Demi" (John and Demijohn), sons of Miss
Alcott's last surviving sister, Mrs. Anna B. Pratt, to whom one of
the editions, published by Little, Brown and Company, in 1889, was
dedicated in these words: "The Sole Surviving Sister of Louisa M.
Alcott, and Her Never Failing Help, Comforter and Friend from Birth
to Death." In Boston the two Pratt boys when growing up were
pointed out as the famous twins, just as Vivian Burnett was pointed
out as Little Lord Fauntleroy. There has been a certain New
England prejudice against making a play of the story, although Miss
Alcott herself was fond of the theatre and actually wrote herself
a short comedy which was produced at the Boston Theatre. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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