Samuel Merwin
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The Trufflers' is a romance-drama novel by Samuel Merwin. The story starts by introducing us to Peter Ericson Mann, who was a playwright of three early (and partial) successes, and two more recent failures. He was thirty-three years old; and a typical New Yorker, born in Iowa, he dressed conspicuously, well, making it a principle when in funds to stock up against lean seasons to come. He worried a good deal and kept his savings of nearly six thousand...
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"Anthony the Absolute" is an adventure novel by Samuel Merwin, an associate editor of Orison Swett Marden's Success Magazine, who wrote novels in the historical fiction genre. The story's main characters, the Europeans traveling on a steamboat, come to Japan eager to learn what attractions this land can offer and get into truly amazing adventures.
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The Whip Hand is a classic western frontier adventure featuring young Captain Halloran of the Evanston crew of young boy sailors. Excerpt: "Sure he's dreaming. They haven't been gone twenty minutes. What's the matter with you!" Yes, it is only twenty minutes; and there is a weary, bitter hour yet for the poor devils before they may set foot on land. Another song is the cry, and more wood-heap her up! Again Apples mounts his grim perch-the head- and...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Road to Frontenac" by Samuel Merwin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "His Little World" (The Story of Hunch Badeau) by Samuel Merwin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Hills of Han: A Romantic Incident" by Samuel Merwin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....
7) Calumet "K"
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In rough-and-tumble Chicago, honest, idealistic Charlie Bannon finds he needs all his intelligence, drive, and negotiating skills to build a modern grain elevator and a suspension bridge. In his way are greedy stockbrokers and mediocre, shortsighted opponents. Ayn Rand (author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead) called this 1901 book one of her favorite novels.
9) Calumet "K"
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Calumet "K" (1904) is a novel by Henry Kitchell Webster and Samuel Merwin. Written as a collaborative effort between the two natives of Evanston, Illinois, Calumet "K" is a story of invention, struggle, and personal redemption. A favorite novel of writer and philosopher Ayn Rand, Calumet "K" launched the careers of two of the Midwest's most popular authors of the early twentieth century. The contract for the two-million bushel grain elevator, Calumet...
