Books with title Sunset

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...hotel. We arrived one morning, and after I had seen my wife settled I went to my club, where I met several fellows, who persuaded me to stay and lunch with them, and it was quite late in the afternoon before I returned to the hotel. "Instead of finding my wife there, however, I was greeted by a message that her ladyship had gone away in the morning with her maid, and a lot of luggage, and had left a note for me in the sitting-room. "I went at once and found the note. Besides a letter, it contained a lot of newspaper cuttings from the papers, published several years previous to our marriage. All of them were records of my youthful indiscretions, and the longest of them all was a verbatim account of the divorce case into which I had been forced as co-respondent, though, as a matter of fact, I was merely the scapegoat for another man. "From the cuttings I turned to the letter, which was very brief, and very much to the point. She stated that certain facts relating to my past life had come to her knowledge, and that she no longer felt it possible for her to live with me. "I afterwards discovered that these facts were told her by the woman who had been responsible for my being mixed up with a certain divorce case some years before. She had given my wife the newspaper cuttings relating to it, together with all the other cuttings recording my follies. "My wife, in her letter, went on to state that she had sifted the evidence as to the truth of these statements, and that she was reluctantly forced to the conclusion that they were not at all exaggerated. Therefore, as she found it impossible for her to either love or respect a man of such a character and reputation, she had made up her mind to leave me. "She considered I had grossly mis...

Title: Sunset. [A tale.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++<Source Library> British Library<Contributors> Whitby, Beatrice; <Original Pub Date> 1898 [1897].<Physical Description> 351 p. ; 8º.<Shelfmark> 012623.eee.18.

“ Miss Whitby is far above the average novelist. . . . This story is original without seeming ingenious, and powerful without being over- drawn.” — New York Commercial Advertiser. “ An admirable portrayal of the development of human character under novel experiences.” — Boston Commonwealth. “The book is a thoroughly good one. The theme is the rebellion of a spirited girl against a match which has been arranged for her without her knowledge or consent. ... It is refreshing to read a novel in which there is not a trace of slipshod work.” —London Spectator. “ A very charming love-story, whose heroine is drawn with original skill and beauty, whom everybody will love for her splendid if very independent character.” — Boston Home Jojtrnal. “ A remarkably well-written story. . . . The author makes her people speak the language of every-day life, and a vigorous and attractive realism pervades the book, which provides excellent entertainment from beginning to end.” — Boston Saturday Evening Gazette. “ The story has a refreshing air of novelty, and the people that figure in it are depicted with a vivacity and subtlety that are very attractive.” — Boston Beacon. “ A clever and wholesome story, and contains some able studies of character.”— ^Charleston News and Courier. “ Six short stories carefully and conscientiously finished, and told with the graceful ease of the practical raconteur." Literary Digest. ...

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Excerpt from SunsetA needle in Alix's life was a serious thing, it was an implement Of labour such as no one would dream of treating lightly.A deal table above her head was littered with an entanglement Of thread, reels, pins, scraps, lining, tapes, ribbons, laces and silk, out Of which confound ing disorder, skilful hands and a needle were called upon to evolve order, in the form of raiment. Be yond the deal table, behind the child, stood an open box of crippled toys: toys crippled in honest service, but out of which no creditable resurrection was possible.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.

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Excerpt from SunsetA needle in Alix's life was a serious thing, it was an implement Of labour such as no one would dream of treating lightly.A deal table above her head was littered with an entanglement Of thread, reels, pins, scraps, lining, tapes, ribbons, laces and silk, out Of which confound ing disorder, skilful hands and a needle were called upon to evolve order, in the form of raiment. Be yond the deal table, behind the child, stood an open box of crippled toys: toys crippled in honest service, but out of which no creditable resurrection was possible.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.

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