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The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories

Chapter 27: William Makepeace Thackeray.
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This collection presents four short stories set in frontier and small-town environments, portraying miners, settlers, and women confronting isolation, economic hardship, and moral dilemmas. Scenes shift between snowy mountain roads and intimate domestic interiors, where characters negotiate love, duty, and survival amid scarce resources and social expectations. The narratives balance atmospheric natural description with quiet psychological observation, emphasizing moments of sacrifice, regret, and restrained feeling. Pacing ranges from brisk episodic incidents to slower, reflective passages that illuminate daily labors, strained relationships, and the compromises demanded by life on the margins.

THE CHOSEN VALLEY. A Novel.
THE LED-HORSE CLAIM. Illustrated.
JOHN BODEWIN'S TESTIMONY.
THE LAST ASSEMBLY BALL, and THE FATE OF A VOICE.
IN EXILE, AND OTHER STORIES.
CŒUR D'ALÉNE. A Novel.
THE CUP OF TREMBLING, AND OTHER STORIES.

Clara Louise Burnham.

Young Maids and Old.
Next Door.
Dearly Bought.
No Gentlemen.
A Sane Lunatic.
The Mistress of Beech Knoll.
Miss Bagg's Secretary.
Dr. Latimer.
Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City.
The Wise Woman.

Edwin Lassetter Bynner.

Zachary Phips.
Agnes Surriage.
The Begum's Daughter.
These three Historical Novels:
Penelope's Suitors.
Damen's Ghost.
An Uncloseted Skeleton. (Written with Lucretia P. Hale.)

Rose Terry Cooke.

Somebody's Neighbors. Stories.
Happy Dodd.
The Sphinx's Children. Stories.
Steadfast.
Huckleberries. Gathered from New England Hills. Short Stories.

Charles Egbert Craddock [Mary N. Murfree].

In the Tennessee Mountains. Short Stories.
Down the Ravine. For Young People. Illustrated.
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains.
In the Clouds.
The Story of Keedon Bluffs.
The Despot of Broomsedge Cove.
Where the Battle was Fought.
His Vanished Star.
The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories.

Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Elsie Venner.
The Guardian Angel.
A Mortal Antipathy.

Augustus Hoppin.

Recollections of Auton House. Illustrated by the Author.
A Fashionable Sufferer. Illustrated by the Author.
Two Compton Boys. Illustrated by the Author.

Henry James.

Watch and Ward.
A Passionate Pilgrim, and other Tales.
Roderick Hudson.
The American.
The Europeans.
Confidence.
The Portrait of a Lady.
The Author of Beltraffio; Pandora; Georgina's Reasons; Four Meetings, etc.
The Siege of London; The Pension Beaurepas; and The Point of View.
Tales of Three Cities (The Impressions of a Cousin; Lady Barberina; A New England Winter)
Daisy Miller: A Comedy.
The Tragic Muse.

Sarah Orne Jewett.

The King of Folly Island, and other People.
Tales of New England. In Riverside Aldine Series.
A White Heron, and Other Stories.
A Marsh Island.
A Country Doctor.
Deephaven.
Old Friends and New.
Country By-Ways.
The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore.
Betty Leicester.
Strangers and Wayfarers.
A Native of Winby.
The Life of Nancy, and Other Stories.

Ellen Olney Kirk.

The Story of Lawrence Garthe.
Ciphers.
The Story of Margaret Kent.
Sons and Daughters.
Queen Money.
Better Times. Stories.
A Midsummer Madness.
A Lesson in Love.
A Daughter of Eve.
Walford.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps [Mrs. Ward].

The Gates Ajar.
Beyond the Gates.
The Gates Between.
Men, Women, and Ghosts. Stories.
Hedged In.
The Silent Partner.
The Story of Avis.
Sealed Orders, and other Stories.
Friends: A Duet.
Dr. Zay.
An Old Maid's Paradise, and Burglars in Paradise.
The Master of the Magicians. Collaborated by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward.
Come Forth. Collaborated by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps and Herbert D. Ward.
Fourteen to One. Short Stories.
Donald Marcy.
The Madonna of the Tubs. With Illustrations.
Jack the Fisherman. Illustrated.
A Singular Life.

F. Hopkinson Smith.

Colonel Carter of Cartersville. With Illustrations.
A Day at Laguerre's, and other Days.
A Gentleman Vagabond, and other Stories.

Octave Thanet.

Knitters in the Sun.
Otto the Knight, and other Stories.

William Makepeace Thackeray.

Complete Works. Illustrated Library Edition.
With Biographical and Bibliographical Introductions,
Portrait, and over 1600 Illustrations.

Gen. Lew Wallace.

The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico.

Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

Faith Gartney's Girlhood.
Hitherto.
Patience Strong's Outings.
The Gayworthys.
A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
We Girls.
Real Folks.
The Other Girls.
Sights and Insights.
Odd or Even?
Bonnyborough.
Homespun Yarns. Stories.
Ascutney Street.
A Golden Gossip.
Boys at Chequasset.
Mother Goose for Grown Folks.

Kate Douglas Wiggin.

The Birds' Christmas Carol. With Illustrations.
The Story of Patsy. Illustrated.
Timothy's Quest.
A Summer in a Cañon. Illustrated.
A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope's English Experiences. Illustrated.
Polly Oliver's Problem. Illustrated.
The Story Hour. Illustrated.
Timothy's Quest. Holiday Edition. Illustrated by Oliver Herford.