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by Willa Cather
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to...
by Willa Cather
FIRST HEARD of Antonia on what seemed to me an interminable journey across the great midland plain of North America.
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Along time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babi...
by James Allen
The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Once upon a time, sixty years ago, a little girl lived in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, in a little gray house made of log...
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
by James Fenimore Cooper
IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
by Margery Williams Bianco
There was once a velveteen rabbit, and in the beginning he was really splendid.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...
by James Fenimore Cooper
NEAR the center of the State of New York lies an extensive district of country whose surface is a succession of hills an...
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The dim wagon track went no farther on the prairie, and Pa stopped the horses.
by Salman Rushdie
I WAS BORN in the city of Bombay... once upon a time.
by Isabel Allende
Everyone is born with some special talent, and Eliza Sommers discovered early on that she had two: a good sense of smell...
by Juan Ramón Jiménez
Platero is so little, so hairy, smooth, and so soft to the touch that you might say he is made of puffy cotton, all ligh...