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  • Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many SingularPhases of Metropolitan Life

    by LEMUEL ELY QUIGG ...
    In this book, Lemuel Ely Quigg likely presents a collection of stories and sketches that offer a glimpse into various aspects of life in New York City during the late 19th century. The title "Tin-Types" refers to the process of creating photographs on thin metal plates, which was a common form of street photography at the time. Quigg may use this metaphor to suggest that the stories and sketches ... Read more

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  • Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York

    A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular / Phases of Metropolitan Life

    by Lemuel Ely Quigg ...
    In "Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York," Lemuel Ely Quigg presents a vivid and engaging portrait of 19th-century New York City through a collection of sketches and observations that illuminate the diverse tapestry of urban life. Written in a captivating yet accessible literary style, the book employs a blend of wit and poignancy, showcasing Quigg's keen observational skills and social ... Read more

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  • Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York

    A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular / Phases of Metropolitan Life

    by Lemuel Ely Quigg ...
    In "Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York," Lemuel Ely Quigg masterfully captures the vibrant tapestry of urban life in late 19th-century New York City through a series of poignant vignettes and astute observations. Employing a distinctive blend of realism and lyrical prose, Quigg's work envelops readers in the sights, sounds, and social dynamics of a rapidly industrializing society, ... Read more

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  • New York Narratives: A 40-Book Library of Old New York Stories & Novels

    Forty Tales of Gilded Age Society, Immigrant Life, Tenements, and Wall Street

    by Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Horatio Jr. Alger, Edgar Fawcett, Grace Livingston Hill, H. C. Witwer, Myra Kelly, Clara Morris, Louis Tracy, Basil King, Arthur Stringer, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Montague Glass, Emma Speed Sampson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Cosmo Hamilton, Robert W. Chambers, H. C. Bunner, Louis Joseph Vance, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Anthony Hope, John Bell Bouton, Gilbert Parker, George Barr McCutcheon, Owen Johnson, Ernest Poole, Lemuel Ely Quigg ...
    New York Narratives gathers a capacious archive of imagined city life, tracing Old New York through social realism, domestic fiction, romance, melodrama, crime adventure, satire, and tales of aspiration. Its range moves from the moral pressures of wealth and class to immigrant encounter, theatrical culture, commercial ambition, and the changing architecture of urban desire. Canonical visions of ... Read more

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  • Tales of Old New York: A 40-Book Collection

    Forty Classic Stories of Gilded Age Ambition, Tenement Life, Romance, and Urban Reinvention

    by Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Theodore Dreiser, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Jr. Alger, Edgar Fawcett, Grace Livingston Hill, H. C. Witwer, Myra Kelly, Clara Morris, Louis Tracy, Basil King, Arthur Stringer, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Montague Glass, Emma Speed Sampson, A. M. Williamson, C. N. Williamson, Cosmo Hamilton, Robert W. Chambers, H. C. Bunner, Louis Joseph Vance, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Anthony Hope, John Bell Bouton, Gilbert Parker, George Barr McCutcheon, Owen Johnson, Ernest Poole, Lemuel Ely Quigg ...
    Tales of Old New York: A 40-Book Collection assembles a capacious literary portrait of the city as metropolis, social theatre, immigrant crossroads, and imagined stage for ambition. Across realism, sentimental romance, adventure, detective fiction, satire, melodrama, and tales of upward mobility, the volume traces changing urban manners and class relations. Its memorable contrasts—between drawing ... Read more

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  • The Best American Humorous Short Stories

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  • King Coal

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  • The Anthology Of Mystery Fiction

    by Agatha Christie,Mary Roberts Rinehart,G.K. Chesterton,Gaston Leroux,Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Over 30 mystery books in one collection with active table of contents.Authors include:Agatha ChristieMary Roberts RinehartG.K. ChestertonGaston LerouxArthur Doyle ... Read more

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  • CALL "M" FOR MURDER: Ultimate Collection - 885 Murder Mysteries, Thriller Novels & Detective Stories in One Edition

    885 Classic Mysteries, Thrillers & Detectives

    by Agatha Christie, Edgar Wallace, Arthur Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, H. C. McNeile, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Morrison, Ernest Bramah, Victor L. Whitechurch, Thomas W. Hanshew, E. W. Hornung, J. S. Fletcher, Rober Barr, Frank Froest, C. N. Williamson, A. M. Williamson, Isabel Ostander, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur B. Reeve, Émile Gaboriau, Marie Belloc Lowndes, Richard Marsh, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Arthur J. Rees, Carolyn Wells, William Le Queux, Frank L. Packard, Fred M. White, Allan Pinkerton, Marcel Allain, Pierre Souvestre, E. C. Bentley, A. A. Milne, Anna Maynard Barbour, A. E. W. Mason, Louis Tracy, Auguste Groner, Sax Rohmer, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Cleveland Moffett, Louis Joseph Vance, Jackson Gregory, Frank H. Spearman, Murray Leinster, Erskine Childers, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Catherine Louisa Pirkis, H.C. Bailey, H. Beam Piper, James Hay, Melville Davisson Post, Anna Katharine Green, Ambrose Bierce, John R. Coryell, Frederic Arnold Kummer, Arthur Cheney Train ...
    CALL "M" FOR MURDER assembles an extraordinarily capacious archive of crime writing, spanning foundational detective puzzles, sensational thrillers, police investigations, espionage tales, locked-room enigmas, and studies in psychological menace. Its 885 narratives trace the genre's movement from Gothic uncertainty and urban sensation toward the formal intricacies of the classic whodunit. ... Read more

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  • Works of Booth Tarkington: The Magnificent Ambersons, Alice Adams, and More!

    The Pulitzer Prize Winning Author ( 22 Works)

    by Booth Tarkington ...
    Series series Classic Novels
    Booth Tarkington was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists (the others being William Faulkner and John Updike) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.This book is contained 22 Works of Booth TarkingtonThe Gentleman from IndianaThe Two VanrevelsMonsieur BeaucaireCherryThe Conquest of ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Booth Tarkington (Illustrated)

    by Booth Tarkington, Delphi Classics ...
    Series Book 23 - Delphi Series Nine
    Booth Tarkington, a leading American novelist of the Interwar period, was famous for his novels ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ and ‘Alice Adams’. Although he was considered by many to be America's greatest living author in the 1910’s and 1920’s, being one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize multiple times, his works are sadly neglected today. This eBook presents Tarkington’s complete ... Read more

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