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Samuel Hopkins Adams
Book List in Order: 16 titles
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Wanted: A Husband
- Mar-1920
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OUT OF ORDER pertly announced the placard on the elevator. To Miss Darcy Cole, wavering on damp, ill-conditioned, and reluctant legs, this seemed the final malignancy of the mean-spirited fates. Four beetling flights to climb Was it worth the effor...
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Grandfather Stories
- Mar-1989
- / General Fiction
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Adams has done no more charming book than these reminiscences of a boyhood in upper New York State. . . . local history, biography, or any category you please; but libraries should have it.— Library JournalAdams' skills as a novelist and a biogr...
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The Clarion
- Sep-2005
- / General Fiction
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Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958) was an American author, born in Dunkirk, New York. He served as a reporter for the New York Sun before joining McClure's Magazine, where he became a crusader for improved governmental oversight of public issues like...
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Common Cause
- Dec-2008
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A lost literary relic of the First World War, Common Cause tells the story of Jeremy Robson, a crusading newspaper editor in the fictional midwestern town of Fenchester. The Guardian’s muckraking has led special interests to withhold adve...
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Little Miss Grouch
- Mar-2010
- / General Fiction
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...
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The Flying Death
- Jan-2012
- / Literary
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This early work by Samuel Hopkins Adams was originally published in 1906 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Flying Death - A Story in Three Writings and a Telegram' is a short story about a shipw...
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Our Square and the People in It
- Feb-2012
- / General Fiction
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This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....
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The Secret of Lonesome Cove
- Aug-2012
- / Mystery
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A body is found on the beach not far from a New England town one morning. Curiously, nobody recognizes the dead woman, and nobody in or near the town seems to be a suspect in a possible murder, therefore most of them assume that she simply washed ash...
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Canal Town
- May-2013
- / Historical
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Canal Town provides an elaborate and colorful portrait of a canal town in upstate New York in the nineteenth century, during which time the Erie Canal is being built. ...
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The Beggar's Purse
- Feb-2014
- / General Fiction
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During the course of Samuel Hopkins Adams' career as an investigative journalist, he exposed a number of frauds being perpetrated on the American public and came to be known as a champion for the rights of the people. As he transitioned into the doma...
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Average Jones
“You have one rare faculty, Jones. You can, when you choose, sharpen the pencil of your mind to a very fine point. Specialize, my boy, specialize.”Adrian Van Reypen Egerton Jones -- “Average,” to his friends -- has spent the five years since...
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From a Bench in Our Square
Samuel Hopkins Adams was an American fiction writer and journalist who was interested in the lives and struggles of everyday folk. That overarching concern is on full display in this charming series of short stories, all of which are told by a legend...
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The Mystery
The late afternoon sky flaunted its splendour of blue and gold like a banner over the Pacific, across whose depths the trade wind droned in measured cadence. On the ocean's wide expanse a hulk wallowed sluggishly, the forgotten relict of a once brave...
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The Unspeakable Perk
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The man sat in a niche of the mountain, busily hating the Caribbean Sea. It was quite ...
