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Edwardian
Books written during or set in the Edwardian era.
The Edwardian era in Great Britain is the period following the Victorian era, covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910. It is sometimes extended beyond Edward's death to include the four years leading up to World War I. ...more
The Edwardian era in Great Britain is the period following the Victorian era, covering the reign of King Edward VII, 1901 to 1910. It is sometimes extended beyond Edward's death to include the four years leading up to World War I. ...more
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The little stone Saint and the Goblin got on very well together, though they looked at most things from different points of view. The Saint was a philanthropist in an old fashioned way; he thought the world, as he saw it, was good, but might be improved. In particular he pitied the church mice, who were miserably poor. The Goblin, on the other hand, was of opinion that the world, as he knew it, was bad, but had better be let alone. It was the function of the church mice to be poor.
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― Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
― Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
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Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason that than he didn’t get one in December. He had no more idea of succumbing to them than he had of purchasing the fish-knives and fur boas that ladies are impelled to sacrifice through the medium of advertisement columns during twelve months of the year. Still, there was something impressive in this unasked-for renunciation of
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― Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
― Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches
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