Books with author Peple. Edward

Excerpt from A Night OutIn the rear of the eighty-thou sand-dollar cottage there was a thirty-thousand-dollar flower-gar den - an oppressively clean garden, where the big Jack-roses were as immaculate as a mama's Lizzie boy, and the well-bred, timid little violets seemed to long to play in the dirt, yet dared not be cause of the master-rule of form. And here the clean cat used to sun himself in the clean garden, think ing his clean thoughts and perish ing of ennui clean through.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edward Henry Peple (1869-1924) was an American playwright. He trained and worked as an accountant, mainly with the American Bridge Company until 1902. In 1895, he moved to New York. His first play was A Broken Rosary. His play The Prince Chap opened in 1895 and ran for two seasons with Cyril Scott playing the lead. Amongst his other works are The Spitfire (1909), The Littlest Rebel (1914), A Pair of Sixes (1914), The Jury of Our Peers (1925) and The Girl (1926).

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Copyright 1914, Published by Dodd, Mead (1935), ex-library, rebound, hardcover, 259 pages, with 7 illustrations from the motion picture featuring Shirley Temple (frontispiece is missing). SYNOPSIS: "A novel of a little girl caught in the midst of the U.S. Civil War. War breeds hatred, horror, pestilence and famine, yet from its tears and ashes must rise humanity. Story deals with the mercy and generosity, the chivalry and humanity which lived in the hearts of the Blue and Gray, a noble contrast to the grim brutality of war." CONDITION: Library cardholder/stamps/notations inside with sticker taped to lower spine. Corners are bent, title page has 1-inch rip, page 17/18 was ripped and scotch-taped, occasional small page edge rips and finger smudges. Binding is secure.