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Far-Away Stories

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by William John Locke ...

Far-Away Stories gathers William J. Locke's short fiction into a sequence of tales shaped by music, longing, sacrifice, and the stubborn human need for love. The opening "The Song of Life" introduces Angelo Fardetti, an aging musician in Peckham whose shabby dignity hides a lifetime of artistic yearning, private sorrow, and an unfinished sonata he believes might contain the whole rhythm of ... Read more

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Far-Away Stories gathers William J. Locke's short fiction into a sequence of tales shaped by music, longing, sacrifice, and the stubborn human need for love. The opening "The Song of Life" introduces Angelo Fardetti, an aging musician in Peckham whose shabby dignity hides a lifetime of artistic yearning, private sorrow, and an unfinished sonata he believes might contain the whole rhythm of
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Simon the Jester

A Man Given Little Time Resolves to Do Good

by William John Locke ...

Simon de Gex, MP, is told he has six months to live and decides to spend them arranging other people's happiness — with the detachment of a man who will not be there for the consequences. Then the diagnosis is revised. Locke was born in British Guiana and kept an architect's ledgers for ten years before his fiction took hold; this is his cleverest book and the one where the charm has a blade in it ... Read more

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Simon de Gex, MP, is told he has six months to live and decides to spend them arranging other people's happiness — with the detachment of a man who will not be there for the consequences. Then the diagnosis is revised. Locke was born in British Guiana and kept an architect's ledgers for ten years before his fiction took hold; this is his cleverest book and the one where the charm has a blade in it
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Jaffery

A Novelist, a War Correspondent and a Secret

by William John Locke ...

A war correspondent of enormous appetites, the manuscript he is carrying, and the friends who cannot decide whether to save him from himself. Locke's comic-melancholy vein at full stretch, written during the First World War. This edition is bound with a gallery of sixty plates of painting, among them works by Walter Sickert, William Logsdail and Arthur Stockdale Cope. ... Read more

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A war correspondent of enormous appetites, the manuscript he is carrying, and the friends who cannot decide whether to save him from himself. Locke's comic-melancholy vein at full stretch, written during the First World War. This edition is bound with a gallery of sixty plates of painting, among them works by Walter Sickert, William Logsdail and Arthur Stockdale Cope.
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Where Love Is

An Ingenuous Man Among Fashionable People

by William John Locke ...

A rich woman who has never been refused anything, a man who cannot be bought, and a courtship conducted mostly through what neither will admit. Locke wrote to a formula he had made himself — the charming irregular against the respectable — and this is the drawing-room version of it, tighter than the vagabond books and rather more cruel about money. Sixty plates of drawing-room and dinner-party ... Read more

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A rich woman who has never been refused anything, a man who cannot be bought, and a courtship conducted mostly through what neither will admit. Locke wrote to a formula he had made himself — the charming irregular against the respectable — and this is the drawing-room version of it, tighter than the vagabond books and rather more cruel about money. Sixty plates of drawing-room and dinner-party
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The Belovéd Vagabond

The Story of Paragot, Told by His Boy

by William John Locke ...

Paragot — vagabond, drunkard, violinist, once something else entirely — takes a boy out of a London gutter, names him Asticot, and teaches him the world from the roads of France. Locke was born in British Guiana and kept an architect's ledgers for a decade before his fiction took hold; the beloved vagabond was his invention and his fortune, and this is the book where the trick is done perfectly. ... Read more

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Paragot — vagabond, drunkard, violinist, once something else entirely — takes a boy out of a London gutter, names him Asticot, and teaches him the world from the roads of France. Locke was born in British Guiana and kept an architect's ledgers for a decade before his fiction took hold; the beloved vagabond was his invention and his fortune, and this is the book where the trick is done perfectly.
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At the Gate of Samaria

A Girl's Struggle for a Life of Her Own

by William John Locke ...

A girl raised in the shabby end of literary London decides to become a writer, and finds the price is everything she was raised to want. Locke's first novel, published in 1894, before the charming vagabonds made him rich — this one is harder and colder than anything he wrote afterwards, and its heroine is not rewarded for being good. Fifty-five plates by painters including Walter Sickert and Dante ... Read more

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A girl raised in the shabby end of literary London decides to become a writer, and finds the price is everything she was raised to want. Locke's first novel, published in 1894, before the charming vagabonds made him rich — this one is harder and colder than anything he wrote afterwards, and its heroine is not rewarded for being good. Fifty-five plates by painters including Walter Sickert and Dante
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Stella Maris

An Invalid Girl Meets the World She Imagined

by William John Locke ...

A girl raised in one room, kept from all knowledge of the world because of an illness, is finally shown it. Locke handles the sentiment carefully and the 1918 film gave Mary Pickford both leading parts. This edition adds 56 plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by Stanhope Forbes, Edvard Munch and James Campbell Noble. ... Read more

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A girl raised in one room, kept from all knowledge of the world because of an illness, is finally shown it. Locke handles the sentiment carefully and the 1918 film gave Mary Pickford both leading parts. This edition adds 56 plates of painting bound with the text, among them works by Stanhope Forbes, Edvard Munch and James Campbell Noble.
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The White Dove

A Country Doctor's Hardened Heart

by William John Locke ...

Sylvester Lanyon, a widowed doctor in the country town of Ayresford, is on the point of asking his father's ward, Ella Defries, to marry him when an old school friend is carried into his house with a broken head. In his delirium the man betrays that Sylvester's dead wife was his mistress, and Sylvester closes his heart, leaves for a London practice and lets Ella go. Before long she is engaged to ... Read more

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Sylvester Lanyon, a widowed doctor in the country town of Ayresford, is on the point of asking his father's ward, Ella Defries, to marry him when an old school friend is carried into his house with a broken head. In his delirium the man betrays that Sylvester's dead wife was his mistress, and Sylvester closes his heart, leaves for a London practice and lets Ella go. Before long she is engaged to
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The Wonderful Year

A Young Englishman Adrift in France

by William John Locke ...

Martin Overshaw, a young Englishman who has come to Paris in August with no notion what to do with his life, dines with an old friend, Corinna Hastings, who is just as adrift — and the evening sets off the most unexpected year either of them has known. William Locke wrote sentimental comedies that sold enormously; this one, published in 1916, takes its people out of the Latin Quarter into ... Read more

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Martin Overshaw, a young Englishman who has come to Paris in August with no notion what to do with his life, dines with an old friend, Corinna Hastings, who is just as adrift — and the evening sets off the most unexpected year either of them has known. William Locke wrote sentimental comedies that sold enormously; this one, published in 1916, takes its people out of the Latin Quarter into
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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, (Complete)

by John Locke ...

The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic, ... Read more

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The Library of Alexandria is an independent small business publishing house. We specialize in bringing back to live rare, historical and ancient Books. This includes manuscripts such as: classical fiction, philosophy, science, Religion, folklore, mythology, history, literature, politics and sacred texts, in addition to Secret and esoteric subjects, such as: occult, freemasonry, alchemy, hermetic,
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The Complete Harvard Classics 2024 Edition [newly updated]

by Benjamin Franklin, Plato, William Shakespeare, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas á Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Cicero, Adam Smith, Pliny the Younger, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Anonymous, Aesop, Grimm Brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Homer, Richard Henry Dana Jr, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich von Schiller, Michael Faraday, Hermann von Helmholtz, Lord Kelvin, Simon Newcomb, Sir Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Immanuel Kant, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Philiip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Hobbes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas Malory, William Harrison, Niccolò Machiavelli, William Roper, Sir Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Confucius, Christian, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Francis Bret Harte, Samuel L. Clemens, Edward Everett Hale, Henry James, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, George Sand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev, Juan Valera, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Alexander L. Kielland ...

This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of ... Read more

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This book, newly updated, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of
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Daisy & Bobby

by John Locke ...

Last year, Bobby Cujo took his life savings to Baton Rouge, intending to buy a used fork lift. On the way, he stopped at a diner and witnessed a bus load of pilgrims crowding around a partially-eaten Moon Pie that looked "exactly like" John the Baptist. Recognizing divine commercial opportunity, Bobby purchased the Moon Pie and drove to the Congregation of Celestial Worship, where he bribed a ... Read more

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Last year, Bobby Cujo took his life savings to Baton Rouge, intending to buy a used fork lift. On the way, he stopped at a diner and witnessed a bus load of pilgrims crowding around a partially-eaten Moon Pie that looked "exactly like" John the Baptist. Recognizing divine commercial opportunity, Bobby purchased the Moon Pie and drove to the Congregation of Celestial Worship, where he bribed a
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