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Love & solitude: Selected poems, 1916-1923

Södergran, Edith

Fjord Press

Poff, the cat, or, When we care

Hentig, Hartmut Von

The dear dance of Eros

Mackey, Mary.

The Dear Dance of Eros

Literature & Fiction

Mary Mackey

Poetry

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Riding the High Country (Western Writers Series No. 1)

Patrick T. Tucker

Arts & Photography

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ... VII Christmas Eve was a great disappointment. It was the custom for the herd-boys to come out and spend Christmas at the farms where they served in the summer, and Pelle's companions had told him of all the delights of Christmas--roast meat and sweet drinks, Christmas games and ginger-nuts and cakes; it was one endless eating and drinking and playing of Christmas games, from the evening before Christmas Eve until "Saint Knut carried Christmas out," on January 7th. That was what it was like at all the small farms, the only difference being that those who were religious did not play cards, but sang hymns instead. But what they had to eat was just as good. The last few days before Christmas Pelle had to get up at two or half-past two to help the girls pluck poultry, and the old thatcher Holm to heat the oven. With this his connection with the delights of Christmas came to an end. There was dried cod and boiled rice on Christmas Eve, and it tasted good enough; but of all the rest there was nothing. There were a couple of bottles of brandy on the table for the men, that was all. The men were discontented and quarrelsome. They poured milk and boiled rice into the leg of the stocking that Karna was knitting, so that she was fuming the whole evening; and then sat each with his girl on his knee, and made ill-natured remarks about everything. The old farm-laborers and their wives, who had been invited to partake of the Christmas fare, talked about death and all the ills of the world. Upstairs there was a large party. All the wife's relations were invited, and they were hard at work on the roast goose. The yard was full of conveyances, and the only one of the farmservants who was in good spirits was the head man, who received all the tips. Gustav was in a thoroughly ...

Pelle the Conqueror, Vol. 1: Childhood

Martin Andersen Nexø

History & Criticism

Married to a boorish stationmaster, Katinka Bai thinks she is content with her life in a sleepy little provincial town until, falling in love with a new man in town, she awakens to unexpected sensuality

Katinka (Modern Classics Series, No 3)

Herman Bang

World Literature

Stark Realities in the City

John Clayton

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