Walter Besant
Birth date: August 14, 1836
Died: June 09, 1901
Walter Besant's Books
Given his own socially unconventional attitudes (he had a well-documented disdain for the institution of marriage), I think it's unlikely that the plot of this novel - ostensibly a cautionary tale about choosing the rascal over the upright man for a husband - was anything more than a convenient trop...
TOEDMUND YATES,EDITOR OF "THE WORLD,"IN WHICH PAPER "THE GOLDEN BUTTERFLY"WAS FIRST PUBLISHED,This StoryIS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORS. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43442Opening: "What do you think, chief?"The speaker, who was leading by a half a length, turned in his saddle and looked at his compa...
Thanks for the heads up Brazilliant!:O)
"GRATITUDE, MY LORD, TO YOU," HE REPLIED.Opening: At twelve o'clock in the morning the anteroom of the town house of the Right Honourable the Earl of Fylingdale was tolerably filled with a mixed company attending his levee. Some were standing at the windows; some were sitting: a few were talking: m...
Illustrated by Warren B. Davis NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD & COMPANY 1899 "OVER THIS RURAL PLACE WE STRAYED AT OUR WILL."Opening: On a certain afternoon in May, about four or five of the clock, I was standing at the open window of my room in that Palace to which Fortune leads her choicest favourites—the Co...
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