The Road to Paris: A Story of AdventureStephens, Robert Neilson
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The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure
Stephens, Robert Neilson
Adventure stories; Historical fiction; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction
A Summer Idyl. By NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, author of "Not Angels
Quite," with dainty half-tone illustrations as chapter headings.
1 vol., large 16mo, cloth =$1.00=
A bright and clever story of a summer on the coast of Maine,
fresh, breezy, and readable from the first to the last page. The
narrative describes the summer outing of a Mr. Merrithew and his
family. The characters are all honest, pleasant people, whom we
are glad to know. We part from them with the same regret with
which we leave a congenial party of friends.
=Cavalleria Rusticana; or, Under the Shadow of Etna.=
Translated from the Italian of Giovanni Verga, by
NATHAN HASKELL DOLE. Illustrated by Etheldred
B. Barry. 1 vol., 16mo, cloth =$0.50=
Giovanni Verga stands at present as unquestionably the most
prominent of the Italian novelists. His supremacy in the domain
of the short story and in the wider range of the romance is
recognized both at home and abroad. The present volume contains a
selection from the most dramatic and characteristic of his
Sicilian tales. Verga is himself a native of Sicily, and his
knowledge of that wonderful country, with its poetic and yet
superstitious peasantry, is absolute. Such pathos, humor,
variety, and dramatic quality are rarely met in a single volume.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES:
Alternate and archaic spellings have been retained.
page 411, "postillion" changed to "postilion" (I will not drive
one step!" said the postillion,)
End of Project Gutenberg's The Road to Paris, by Robert Neilson Stephens
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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