There lived in Paris, under the reign of King Louis XV., a very rich old countess named Yolande de la Grenouille. She was a worthy and charitable lady, who distributed alms not only to the poor of her own parish, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, but to the unfortunate of other quarters. Her husband, Roch-Eustache, Count of Grenouille, had fallen gloriously at the battle of Fontenoy, on the 11th of May, 1745.

This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself.

Purporting to be a burlesque of the sentimental novels of the "Alonzo and Melissa" type, the burlesque inheres wholly in the humorous Prologue and Appendices.

This classic text is a history of Portsmith, New Hampshire from it's beginnings to the late 1880's.

The Queen of Sheba & My Cousin The Colonel

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The Sisters' Tragedy with other poems, Lyrical and Dramatic

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