About This Book
A collected set of short stories and sketches originally appearing in periodicals, offering a varied assortment of narratives and vignettes that shift between romantic incidents, humorous character studies, historical and travel scenes, and domestic anecdotes. Some pieces originate in imagination while others adapt reported or recollected tales, yielding a blend of legend, sentimental romance, comic episode, and topical sketch. The sequence favors concise scenes and character-driven moments, alternating lighthearted entertainments with more reflective or dramatic passages rather than a single continuous narrative.
About the Author
You May Also Like
6 picks
"A Cathcart or a Riggs?"
by Roy Norton
"Browne's Folly" / (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other Pieces: Tales and Sketches")
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Martin of Nitendi"; and The River of Dreams / 1901
by Louis Becke
"Next Stop, Nowhere!"
by Dick Purcell
"Old Mary" / 1901
by Louis Becke
"Ole, sielun', iloinen!"
by Tiitus