In old Narragansett; romances and realitiesEarle, Alice Morse
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In old Narragansett; romances and realities
Earle, Alice Morse
Narragansett Bay Region (R.I.) -- History -- Fiction; Short stories, American
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=Irralie’s Bushranger.= A Story of Australian Adventure. By E. W.
HORNUNG.
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=Madame Delphine.= By GEORGE W. CABLE.
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social atmosphere of a remote time and a peculiar people.”--New York
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=The Suicide Club.= By ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
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=An Inheritance.= By HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.
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=A Master Spirit.= By HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD.
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in which she made herself beloved thirty years ago in the pages of
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Ruth Herrick’s Assignment.
The Love Affair of Chesterfield, Jr.
At the Close of the Second Day.
The Wife of the Candidate.
Mrs. Ogilvie’s Local Color.
From the Hand of Dolorita.
The Passing of Hope Abbott.
A Point of Ethics.
A Romance of the City Room.
Miss Van Dyke’s Best Story.
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