THE BALL WAS TO TAKE place on Friday night. The house had been put in order, the carpets covered with canvas, the halls and stairs decorated with palms and potted plants; and in the afternoon Mr. Ryder sat on his front porch, ...
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors.
This book contains 350 short stories from 50 classic, prize-winning and noteworthy authors.
said Peter Porter. "Oh, she'll do!" Jerry Tressady said contentedly. She was good-natured, strong, and pretty indeed, and she did a great deal. Timmy's little garments fluttered on the clothes-line before breakfast; Timmy's room was ...
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challenged Mis' Bates, triumphantly. Mis' Winslow looked up. Her eyes were shining as they had shone sometimes when one of her seven-under-fifteen had given its first sign of consciousness of more than self. "I believe we'll do it some ...
Christmas: A Story
In 1920, she published the novel Miss Lulu Bett, which depicts life in the Midwestern United States. She adapted it as a play, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921.
We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public.
Zona Gale, also known by her married name, Zona Gale Breese (August 26, 1874 - December 27, 1938), was an American novelist, short story writer, and playwright.
And soon the first faint aroma of cigars, so great a luxury to smokers, announced the beginning of that process ... But little by little they also were swallowed up in the gray cloud which indicated the way that their fathers had taken.
Christmas, by Zona Gale, is a tender little study of the intricacies of human nature, done with that clear-eyed understanding that made the Friendship Village stories memorable.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Reproduction of the original: Heart's Kindred by Zona Gale