Josephine Daskam Bacon

• Mar-2010
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Josephine Dodge Daskam, Mrs. Bacon (1876- 1961) was a prolific American author. She wrote many books among which are: Smith College Stories (1900), Sister's Vocation, and Other Girls' Stories (1900), Fables for the Fair (1901), Whom the Gods Destroye...

• Oct-2011
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Clairvoyant dreams, ghosts, murder, and intrigue abound in this short story collection! Dr. Stanchon might be a brilliant diagnostician, but the oddity of his cases more often involves the paranormal undercurrents of late nineteenth-century New York ...

• Feb-2014
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The colonel entered his sister's room abruptly, sat down on her bed, and scattered a drawerful of fluffy things laid out for packing. "You don't seem to think about my side of the matter," he said gloomily. "What am I to do here all alone, for Heaven...

• Feb-2014
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'TWAS a bloomy morning, all crocuses and tree buds, and Antony sniffed it into his nostrils thankfully, even while he scowled. "Come, come " said his Uncle Julius, a wealthy old gentleman buttoned firmly into a white vest, "what a face It is nothing...

• Feb-2014
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TO Belden, pacing the library doggedly, the waiting seemed interminable, the strain unnecessarily prolonged. A half-hour ago quick feet had echoed through the upper halls, windows had opened, doors all but slammed, vague whisperings and drawn breaths...

• Feb-2014
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"You don't think it's too young for me, girls?" "Young for you-par exemple I should say not," her niece replied, perking the quivering aigrette still more obliquely upon her aunt's head. Carolyn used par exemple as a good cook uses onion-a hint of i...

• Feb-2014
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Roger Bradley was walking up Broadway. This fact calls sharply for comment, for he had not done it in years; the thoroughfare was intolerable to him. But one of its impingements upon a less blatant avenue had caught him napping and he found himself e...

• Feb-2014
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They were having tea on the terrace. As Varian strolled up to the group he wished that Hunter could see the picture they made-Hunter, who had not been in America for thirty years, and who had been so honestly surprised when Varian had spoken of Mrs. ...

• Feb-2014
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"I suspected him from the first," said Miss Gould, with some irritation, to her lodger. She spoke with irritation because of the amused smile of the lodger. He bowed with the grace that characterized all his lazy movements. "He looked very much like ...

• Feb-2014
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She had never felt so tired of it all, it seemed to her. The sun streamed hot across the backs of the shining seats into her eyes, but she was too tired to get the window-pole. She watched the incoming class listlessly, wondering whether it would be ...

• Feb-2014
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Theodora pushed through the yellow and purple crowd, a sea of flags and ribbons and great paper flowers, caught a glimpse of the red and green river that flowed steadily in at the other door, and felt her heart contract. What a lot of girls And the ...

• Feb-2014
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Caroline rocked herself back and forth from her waist, defying the uncompromisingly straight chair which inclosed her portly little person. "Bounded 'n th' north by Mass'joosetts; bounded 'n th' north by Mass'joosetts; bounded 'n th' north by Mass'jo...

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Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of Smith College Stories Ten Stories by Josephine Dodge Daskam. It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.

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