Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...strikingly original. The greybearded spinner of the impossible story of "Dead Man's Pine" is vividly and convincingly drawn, and the inconsistencies of his yarn are not too much insisted on. "Her House ont of Order" introduces the hackneyed characters of the wealthy and eccentric father, the beautiful daughter, and the rich lover, against the background of a revolving house and an automobile. On the whole, these three contributions serve to confirm the reviewer's belief that undergraduate fiction is most likely to be successful when it concerns itself with undergraduate life...
...Moliere's most characteristic satires of his cherished laughing-stock, the doctors. Squarelle is a drunken woodcutter, who ill-treats his wife, Martine. She seizes an opportunity for revenge, when Valere and Lucas, servants of Geronte, come in search of a doctor for their master's daughter, Lucinda, who, to avoid an unwelcome marriage, feigns dumbness. Martine tells the servants that her husband is a learned physician, but afflicted with an eccentric disinclination to practice his profession unless coerced by a sound thrashing. They seek out the unsuspecting woodcutter, and finding him at his work, force him by blows...
...heritage of Iphigenis, daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytaemnestra, was a calamity provoked by successive violations of the law of God. Deceit, treachery, fatal ambition, adultery, the atrocities, of revenge that studied the refinements of retaliation, the murder of a husband, of a daughter, of a father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...
There have also been added 47 volumes of the Tauchnitz edition under the following titles: "A Daughter of Heth," "Judith Shakespeare," "Macleod of Dare," "Shandon Bells," "In Silk Attire," "The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton," "Three Feathers," by W. Black; "The Indiscretion of the Duchess," by A. Hope; "In the Golden Days," "Knight-Errant," "We Two," by E. Lyall; "A Sailor's Sweetheart," by W. C. Russell; "Sketches in Italy," "New Italian Sketches," by J. A. Symonds; "The Initials," "Quits," by Baroness Tautphoeus; "Can You Forgive Her?", "The Duke's Children," "The Prime Minister," by A. Trollope; "Mr. Smith...
...Scholar's Daughter", by B. Harraden...