The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (7 works)
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (7 works)
work Selected prose of John Ruskin
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Snow Queen and Other Tales
Mort de quelqu'un
Walden, or, Life in the Woods / On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Short fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman
McGuffey's sixth eclectic reader
The hills beyond
41 Stories
Three Nineteenth-Century Novels
Puck of Pook's Hill
Selected writings of Walter Pater
The rider on the white horse
Four Plays (Orpheus Descending / Period of Adjustment / Suddenly Last Summer / Summer and Smoke)
The picture of Dorian Gray, and selected stories
Los de abajo
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IN compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result...
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[The title short story]... wrestles with questions of God and evil. It tells of a callous angel who drops in on a village and wreaks havoc. The angel makes tiny clay people come alive and then, for amusement, destroys them with a storm, a fire and an earthquake..." - Nicholas D. Kristof Contains: The mysterious stranger A horse's tale Extract from Captain Stormfield's visit to heaven A fable My platonic sweetheart Hunting the deceitful turkey The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm.
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