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If it had been Ada Craven's Sunday out it might never have happened. But it was her Sunday in and when the front door bell rang she opened the door. She had been in service five years, but she had gone to her first place when she left school at the age of fourteen and she was not twenty yet. She...

The CASUARINA TREE 0) the Casuarina Tree they say that ij you take in a boat with you a piece oj it, be it ever so small, contrary winds will arise to impede your journey or storms to imperil your lije. They say also th^ ij you stand in its shadow hy the light oj the jull moon you will hear,...

INTRODUCTIONThornton Wilder belongs to the liberal tradition of authorship, a way of writing which is scholarly without being academic, and of wide appeal without being facile in the popular sense. He is primarily a humanist and his interests are culturalman's spiritual history throughout the ages,...

CHAPTER THE FIRST the little shop at romney § I Until he was nearly arrived at manhood, it did not become clear to Kipps how it was that he had come into the care of an aunt and uncle instead of having a father and mother like other little boys. He had vague memories of a somewhere else, a dim...

This is the Story '^HIS absorbing story opens in London, and at a cinema in Piccadilly Circus we are introduced to the hero, Takao Ono—a picaresque and enterprising rascal, who has made his own country rather too warm to hold him and has wandered westwards, led by his quaint knowledge of...

BOOK THE FIRST THE DAYS BEFORE TONO-BUNGAY WAS INVENTED CHAPTER THE FIRST of bladesover house, and my motherj and the constitution of society I I Most people in this world seem to live 'in character'; they ha ve a beginning, a middle, and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and...