E.P. Roe / Edward Payson Roe

• Nov-2002
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A classic Thanksgiving romantic short story by Edward Payson Roe. This book was written in the 1800s and tells a historical holiday story with a romantic undertone. The main character, Elsie, decides to surprise her brother by giving him a kiss on hi...

• Nov-2005
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A lawyer argues for love in The Christmas Eve Suit. A young woman must choose between two men who go to fight with General Putnam in the Revolutionary War in Suzie Rolliffe's Christmas. And in the final tale, the author draws from his own experience ...

• Sep-2007
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On a cloudy December morning a gentleman, two ladies, and a boy stepped down from the express train at a station just above the Highlands on the Hudson. A double sleigh, overflowing with luxurious robes, stood near, and a portly coachman with difficu...

• Jun-2009
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...

• Jul-2009
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• Jan-2010
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In sending this, my fourth venture, out upon the uncertain waters of public opinion, I shall say but few words of preface. In the past I have received considerable well-deserved criticism from the gentlemen of the caustic pen, but so far from having ...

• Feb-2010
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MARIAN VOSBURGH had been content with her recognized position as a leading belle. An evening spent in her drawing-room revealed that; but at the close of the particular evening which it was our privilege to select there occurred a trivial incident. S...

• Oct-2011
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Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American chaplain, pastor and novelist. His works included Barriers Burned Away (1872), which first appeared as a serial in the Evangelist and made him widely known, Near to Natures Heart (1876), A Day of Fate (18...

• Apr-2014
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During the American Civil War, the poor family of a missing Union soldier must cope with their struggles on Christmas Eve. This restored version of the story features a biography of the author, Edward Payson Roe, in the beginning....

• Mar-2016
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1885. One of the purposes of this story is to illustrate the power of a young girl not so beautiful or so good as many of her sisters. She was rather commonplace at first, but circumstances led her to the endeavor to be true to her own nature and con...

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Certainly not I would come early in the morning before art customers are stirring I really should enjoy the task greatly if I had any one to help me who could in some faint degree comprehend the effects I wished to produce The long spring mornings so...

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Where are the children? "They can't be far away," replied my wife, looking up from her preparations for supper. "Bobsey was here a moment ago. As soon as my back's turned he's out and away. I haven't seen Merton since he brought his books from school...

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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.At the beginning of the Civil War there was a fine old residence on Meeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, inhabited by a family almost as old as the State. Its inheritor and owner, Orville Burgoyne, ...

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Yes I know she is engaged to your friend Warren Hilland She came over in the dusk of last evening and sitting just where you are told me all I kept up It was not for me to reveal your secret I let the happy girl talk on kissed her and wished her all ...

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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Land hunger is so general that it may be regarded as a natural craving. Artificial modes of life, it is true, can destroy it, but it is apt to reassert itself in later generations. To tens of thousands of br...

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A group of 'boys' give Cornwallis' troops a rough time in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, as they rally to defend their families and homes. 25000 words.Written by Reverend Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) in 1886.Also includes a short story, A Christmas-E...

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But while his action did suggest hope it also contained elements of discouragement She did not find fault with what he proposed to do but with the spirit in which he was entering on his most difficult task His knowledge of the world was so crude and ...

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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.A great, rudely built stone chimney was smoking languidly one afternoon. Leaning against this chimney, as if for protection and support, was a little cabin gray and decrepit with age. The door of the cabin s...

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Reverend Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American novelist born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S. V., and in 186...

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Reverend Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American novelist born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S. V., and in 186...

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Reverend Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American novelist born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S. V., and in 186...

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1881. Roe writes in the preface that it will soon be discovered that the modern opium or morphia habit has a large place in this volume. The story begins: It was an attractive picture that Martin Jocelyn looked upon through the open doorway of his pa...

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When Madge Alden was seventeen years of age an event occurred which promised to be the misfortune of her life. At first she was almost overwhelmed and knew not what to do. She was but a young and inexperienced girl, and for a year or more had been re...

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Reverend Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American novelist born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S. V., and in 186...

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Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Two or three years ago the editor of Lippincott's Magazine asked me, with many others, to take part in the very interesting experience meeting begun in the pages of that enterprising periodical. I gave my co...