| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
x, 415 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Over by the river -- The Trojan women -- The pilgrimage -- The patterns of love -- What every boy should know -- A game of chess -- The French scarecrow -- Young Francis Whitehead -- A final report -- Haller's second home -- The gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel -- The value of money -- The thistles in Sweden -- The poor orphan girl -- The lily-white boys -- Billie Dyer -- Love -- The man in the moon -- With reference to an incident at a bridge -- My father's friends -- The front and the back parts of the house -- The holy terror -- What he was like -- (to be continued) |
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(Continued) A Set of Twenty-one Improvisations : A love story -- The industrious tailor -- The country where nobody ever grew old and died -- The fisherman who had nobody to go out in his boat with him -- The two women friends -- The carpenter -- The man who had no friends and didn't want any -- A fable begotten of an echo of a line of verse by W.B. Yeats -- The blue finch of Arabia -- The sound of waves -- The woman who never drew breath except to complain -- The masks -- The man who lost his father -- The old woman whose house was beside a running stream -- The pessimistic fortune-teller -- The printing office -- The lamplighter -- The kingdom where straightforward, logical thinking was admired over every other kind -- The old man at the railroad crossing -- A mean and spiteful toad -- All the days and nights. |
| Subject |
City and town life -- Illinois -- Fiction.
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City and town life. |
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Illinois. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Americans -- France -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Americans. |
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France. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Families -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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Families. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0679438297 : $25.00 ($35.00 Can.) |
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