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...Louisa Solano, owner of the Grolier Poetry Book Shop Inc., 6 Plympton St., said she hung a 48-inch wreath valued at $250 outside her store earlier this week. She went home at 10 p.m. Thursday, and the wreath was nowhere to be seen when she returned at 8 a.m. yesterday...
Into Harry's shop one day walks Andrew Osnard, a presumed customer who slowly turns into a tormentor. Osnard reveals that he knows all about Harry's past and nearly as much about his present, especially his investment of Louisa's $200,000 inheritance in a money-losing rice farm. "I'm a spy," Osnard tells the stunned Harry. "Spy for Merrie England. We're reopening Panama...
...outwardly prosperous proprietor of Pendel & Braithwaite, Limitada, a gentlemen's tailor shop that bears on its frosted-glass window the legend PANAMA AND SAVILE ROW SINCE 1921. Legend seems the right word because Harry thinks he is the only person in Panama City, including his wife Louisa, who knows the falsity of his front. There was no Braithwaite and no establishment on Savile Row. Harry is in truth an ex-con who did time for torching his Uncle Benny's London garment warehouse, at his uncle's request, for the insurance. His new life in Panama has been made possible...
...students disapprove that only one aspect of ourselves, our classwork, is presented to our professors and section leaders. They usually do not get to know us as people. Would we feel differently about reading Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, a classic children's story, if we had previously read her other works published under a pseudonym? These thrillers were deemed too sensational to be published then: A Long, Fatal Love Chase, a story about obsessive love, is only now being published. But Alcott's other works should make no difference to us. Little Women could never be called sensationalist...
...literary heirs of Louisa May Alcott presented and sold a significant collection of Alcott papers to the Houghton library during its 50th anniversary in 1992," Wendorf said. "Our Alcott manuscripts are on deposit in the library including The Inheritance [and] have been catalogued and fully accessible to the public since they arrived...