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O. HenryA struggling typist finds a small, private universe in the star she watches through the skylight of her attic room.
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O. HenryTwo struggling women share a makeshift stew, while a mysterious stranger arrives carrying the one ingredient they lack.
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O. HenryTwo young working women pursue very different futures in a city where wages, style, and marriage all promise escape.
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O. HenryA grieving Irishman treats a palmist’s predictions as a treasure map and pursues the stranger meant to bring him luck.
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O. HenryTwo working New Yorkers spend a week pretending to be wealthy guests at a Broadway hotel and find an unexpected kindred spirit.
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O. HenryEvery Thanksgiving, a wealthy old man takes a homeless stranger to dinner, preserving a private tradition neither can bear to break.
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O. HenryA chance meeting in a city park lets two strangers imagine love beyond the boundaries of wealth and social rank.
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P. G. WodehouseBingo's latest romance sends Bertie to his skeptical uncle, where an old impersonation threatens the marriage.
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P. G. WodehouseRosie plans to publish a private account of her marriage, and Bingo recruits Bertie to keep it out of print.
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P. G. WodehouseBingo falls for a revolutionary's daughter and joins her father's cause, even as he bets on a horse owned by his wealthy uncle.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie travels to New York to rescue his cousin from a vaudeville romance, only to find Gussie aiming for a spot onstage himself.
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P. G. WodehouseAunt Agatha asks Bertie to look after an English visitor in New York, then warns him to keep the young man away from the stage.
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P. G. WodehouseTo keep his allowance, Bicky must convince his miserly duke of an uncle that he's prospering in New York. Jeeves has an idea.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie agrees to house a sheltered young lord in New York, then discovers that the guest has plans his mother never imagined.
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P. G. WodehouseWhen Bingo falls for a waitress, Jeeves proposes a reading list to persuade his wealthy uncle that class should not stand in love's way.
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P. G. WodehouseAn artist needs his wealthy uncle's approval to marry, so Bertie brings in Jeeves to find a way past the man's stubbornness.
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P. G. WodehouseA poet who hates New York must send his aunt lively reports from its nightlife to keep the allowance that lets him stay in the country.
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P. G. WodehouseBertie has one job: get his troublesome cousins onto a ship. Both fall for the same woman and refuse to leave.
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P. G. WodehouseBiffy has lost the woman he loves and is engaged to another. Bertie’s rescue plan takes them to a crowded exhibition.
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Philip K. DickThree Terran agents flee Mars with a stolen city hidden among office supplies, but one fellow passenger asks too many questions.
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Philip K. DickA Terran boy visits his alien friends on the day their people finally begin winning back a century of conquered worlds.
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Ray BradburyIn a crime-free future, a pulp writer discovers that a perfect society has left him dangerously short of material.
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Ray BradburySixty years after being stranded on Mars, an old man receives a phone call from the younger self he recorded to survive the silence.
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Ray BradburyIn a future that has abolished fear, graveyards, and the literature of horror, the last man from the dead rises to make the world afraid again.
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