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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company in 1914 in 188 pages; Subjects: Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Literary; ... Read more

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The book may have numerous typos or missing text. It is not illustrated or indexed. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website. You can also preview the book there.Purchasers are also entitled to a trial membership in the publisher's book club where they can select from more than a million books for free.Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's sons Publication date: 1896Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Short Stories; Juvenile Fiction / Short Stories ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CHAPTER IV A TRYST Above the White Plains the territory was supposed to be our own. Below, seventeen thousand red-coats held the city of New York; and their partisans, irregulars, militia, refugee-corps, and Legion-horsemen, harried the lines. Yet, except the enemy's cruisers which sometimes strayed far up the Hudson, like impudent hawks circling within the very home-yard, we saw nothing of red-rag or leather-cap north of our lines, save only once, when Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe nearly caught us.His Excellency's army lay in position all around us, now, from West Point down the river; and our light- horsemen patrolled as far south as the unhappy country from which we had retired through the smoke of Bedford's burning farms and the blaze of church and manor at Poundridge. That hilly strip was then our southern frontier, bravely defended by Thomas and Lockwood, shamefully neglected by Sheldon, as we had seen. For which he was broke, poor devil, and a better man set there to watch the red fox Tarleton, to harry Emmerick, and to throw the fear o' God into that headlong blockhead, Simcoe, a brave man, but so possessed by hatred for "Mr." Washington that everymove he made was like a goaded bull—his halts merely the bewilderment of baffled fury, his charges blind and bellowing.I know how he conducted, not from hearsay alone, but because at sunrise on our second day northward, before we struck the river-road, we had like to have had a brush with him, his flankers running afoul of us not far beyond a fortified post heavily held by our Continentals.It was the glimpse of cannon and levelled bayonets that bewildered him; and his bawling charge sheered wide o' the shabby Continental battle-line, through which we galloped into safety, our Indian sticking to my crupper like a ... ... Read more

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He hesitated and stopped, then resumed his course, mumbling to himself: "I can pass the cemetery later; she would not be there; I don't think I shall ever see her again. . . . I--I wonder whether I am--perfectly--well--". ... Read more

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Mystery and Supernatural Love Stories

Robert W. Chambers is best known for "The King in Yellow", his 1895 horror classic. He returned in 1897 with "The Mystery of Choice".

The highlights of the book are the three Dick Darrel stories; The Purple Emperpr; Pompe Funèbre; and The Messenger. Of the three, The Messenger is the best and also the only supernatural story.

Out of the remaining tails; The White Shadow & The Key to Grief - are okay but predicable; Passeur - is haunting; and A Matter of Interest - is laughable in light of modern paleontology.

The book ends with a four page poem called Eavoi. I am not much for supernatural love poems of the last century.

This is not the haunting madness of "The King of Yellow" but The Messenger, The Purple Emperor, and Passeur make it worth the money.

For more information on the life and works of Robert W. Chambers see The Chambers research Project at: www.ioc.net/~larryloc/yking001.html

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1919. Chambers, American artist and writer, later turned to writing romantic fiction to earn a living. According to some estimates, Chambers was one of the most successful literary careers of his period, with a few of his works achieving bestseller status. Contents: Prologue-Claire-de-Lune; A Shadow Dance; Sunrise; Sunset; Dusk; In Dragon Court; Dulcie; Opportunity Knocks; Dulcie Answers; Her Day; Her Evening; Her Night; The Last Mail; A Midnight Tete-a-Tete; Problems; Blackmail; The Watcher; A Conference; The Babbler; A Chance Encounter; Grogan's; The White Blackbird; Foreland Farms; A Lion in the Path; A Silent House; Starlight; 'Be-n-Eirinn I!; The Moonlit Way; Green Jackets; and Asthore. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Fiction / Espionage; Fiction / Historical; Fiction / Suspense; Fiction / Thrillers; Fiction / War ... Read more