A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays

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Peter On the Divide Eric Hermannson’s Soul The Sentimentality of William Tavener The Namesake The Enchanted Bluff The Joy of Nelly Deane The Bohemian Girl Consequences The Bookkeeper’s Wife Ardessa Her Boss

PART

II:

REVIEWS

AND

ESSAYS

Mark Twain William Dean Howells Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Henry James Harold Frederic Kate Chopin Stephen Crane Frank Norris When I Knew Stephen Crane On the Art of Fiction

PART I

STORIES

Peter

“No, Antone, I have told thee many times, no, thou shalt not sell it

until I am gone.”

“But I need money; what good is that old fiddle to thee? The very

crows laugh at thee when thou art trying to play. Thy hand trembles

so thou canst scarce hold the bow. Thou shalt go with me to the Blue

to cut wood to-morrow. See to it thou art up early.”

“What, on the Sabbath, Antone, when it is so cold? I get so very

cold, my son, let us not go to-morrow.”

“Yes, to-morrow, thou lazy old man. Do not I cut wood upon the

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