Excerpt from Paradise Malory Dwight had taken the five-mile drive from his farm to the village, and hitched his horse in front of the house where Ann Parsons, the old nurse, had a second-floor tenement. The door was locked, the curtains, all over the house, were down. He drew a breath of despair, for he needed Ann greatly. As he stood on the narrow side walk, debating, a man hailed him from the other side of the street. "Guess she's gone to the hall, Malory. There's doin's there." "Much obliged." Malory untied his horse and stepped into the wagon again, and as the voice continued, "How's your sister?" he replied briefly, "Worse," and drove on through the one street whose modest signboards proclaimed the life of trade. He drew up in front of the little yellow hall where the "doings" predicted were already apparent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from The Key to Paradise If he is impossible, I will not marry him. They should have let me see him first. This is my stepmother's doing; she has hurried the affair on to spite me, as if she had only just found out that I am fifteen, and that it is time to consider my future. During the recreation hour, when her dear est friends would fain have taken her aside and discussed the diamonds and silks and laces which were a necessary and delightful part of matrimony, she chose instead that they should play hide and seek with little girls of the junior class, on the plea that be fore long she would be debarred from playing any romping game at all. They laughed at her, but she got her own way, as indeed she generally did. She was one of the first to hide, and she slipped away down a side alley of the garden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Val of Paradise Paradise! What words shall one choose to tell of it and those who made it - of its beauty, its strength and its arrogance? In a land where distance hazed the southern skyline, where tawny buttes and mesas stood majestically against the blue, where bunch-grass levels swept toward the illimitable west and the Blind Trail Hills rose stark and forbidding upon the east, it lay like the heart of peace itself, smiling in the sun, green with its wide alfalfa fields beneath its living waters. Tall cottonwoods weaved and whispered in the little winds that blew always from the south and a high-topped palm or two stood like sentinels to guard its gates. Where Bluewater, the great sweet spring that boiled eternally in its stone-flagged patio, ran out beneath the trees, there purple iris grew beside the trickle, and water hyacinth. Worn, old-fashioned chairs and benches stood hospitably on the clean-swept earth where the poplars made their shaking shade, and hammocks, gay with fringe, swung in the little breezes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from The Garden of Paradise About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from A Lost Paradise Success! It pulsed and vibrated throughout the entire theatre, from the footlights to the outermost limits of the lobby, from the orchestra seats to the eerie heights of the peanut gallery, in subtle telepathic waves. Some suggestion of it penetrated even to the grim fastnesses of the box-office, where scepticism rules rampant, and with thin-lipped cynicism watches the wavering line at the ticket-window, until, perchance, put to flight by weeks of "capacity" business. A brilliant audience was crowding into the lobby, an audience of evening clothes and automobiles, good-natured, prosperous, smiling with pleased expectancy. The play had been well advertised. The theatre was a popular one. They looked for a success, since here successes in the past had been the rule. Even the name of the play, "The Winner," glowing across the front of the theatre in electric brilliancy, seemed to nullify any idea of failure. Success vibrated in the air, elusive, yet unmistakable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Walks in Paradise About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Rose O'paradise What Jinnie Found on the Hill He's Come To Live with Us, Peggy Who Says the Kid Can't Stay? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.

Excerpt from Purgatory In a prose translation the task of representing the music of the original poem is not attempted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.