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One hundred and ninety-six stories, one hundred and ninety-five of them adaptations of novels in the public domain, staged as scenes rather than pages. What holds them together: a room, a marriage, or an empire built on what goes unsaid. A house next door throws parties for eight hundred guests who have never met the host. A nursery empties of attention the day a brother is born. A letter in purple ink arrives from a woman not seen in twelve years.

MatureThe Great GatsbyThe house next door throws parties for eight hundred people, and none of the guests has ever met the host.Complete · 49 chaptersMatureThe AwakeningOne summer on Grand Isle a wife and mother of two learns to swim, and the shore stops feeling like the place she lives.Complete · 42 chaptersTeenThe Conjure WomanYou have come south after the war to buy a ruined vineyard, and the old man on the log advises against it.Complete · 42 chaptersTeenLady SusanThe most accomplished flirt in England has been turned out of one country house and writes to invite herself to yours.Complete · 27 chaptersMaturePassingA letter in purple ink arrives from a woman you last saw twelve years ago in Chicago, and you know the hand before you find the postmark.Complete · 18 chaptersMatureThe Age of InnocenceNew York in the 1870s runs on what is not said, and the opera house is where it gets decided.Complete · 18 chaptersTeenAdam BedeOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureAlmayer's FollyOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureAn Outcast of the IslandsOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureAnna KareninaYou play Anna Karenina, travelling overnight to Moscow to patch up your brother's marriage before his wife stops opening her door.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenAt FaultOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureAustralia FelixOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureCrime and PunishmentJuly in St Petersburg, and you play Rodion Raskolnikov, a student who has stopped attending, hiding in a garret from the landlady you owe.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenDaniel DerondaOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenDeephavenOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenDoctor ThorneOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenDombey and SonYou are Florence Dombey, unwelcome in your own nursery now that the household's attention has shifted to your baby brother Paul.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureDream of the Red ChamberYour mother is dead, and the journey north ends at gates where rank decides which door you enter.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureEffi BriestYou are Effi Briest, seventeen, sewing an altar cloth with friends in the Brandenburg garden where the swing still hangs.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureEthan FromeOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenFathers and SonsYou play Arkady Kirsanov, home from university and bringing a friend: Bazarov, a medical student who treats every belief as something to be tested.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureFenwick's CareerOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenFor the MajorOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenFramley ParsonageOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenFrances WaldeauxOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureGosta Berling's SagaYou are Gosta Berling, a minister put out of his parish, walking through a Varmland winter.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenHeartseaseOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureHome to HarlemOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureHungerYou are a writer in Christiania with a rent notice on the door and nothing finished on the page.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenJupiter LightsYou are Eve, crossing from England after your brother Jack's death to see the nephew he left behind.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureKokoroA telegram takes your friend home three days into the holiday, and you keep swimming at Kamakura alone.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenLittle DorritYou are Amy Dorrit, sewing by the hour in Mrs Clennam's locked-up London house, where clocks disagree and grievances go unspoken.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMadame BovaryWinter rain glazes the yard at Les Bertaux, where your father lies upstairs with a broken leg and very little patience.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMain StreetYou play Carol Milford, up on the hill above your Minnesota college instead of in English history, redesigning a village you have never visited.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMcTeagueYou play McTeague, who keeps dental rooms above Polk Street with a gilt tooth swinging outside and no diploma behind the chair.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenMiddlemarchYou play Dorothea Brooke, who would sooner mend cottage roofs than wear jewels.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureMrs DallowayYou are Clarissa Dalloway, walking out on a June morning in Westminster to buy the flowers yourself for tonight's party.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenNew Grub StreetYou play Jasper Milvain, who opens the morning by observing that a man is being executed in London at this exact minute, and that he is not.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenOblomovYou play Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, who owns an estate he never visits and a dressing gown that defeats every intention.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenPhineas FinnOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureRajmohan's WifeAn errand to the village tank passes the new house where your sister has just come to live.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureRoderick HudsonOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureRomolaOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenSilas MarnerYou play Silas Marner, a weaver trusted to sit alone through the night with a dying deacon and the chapel's cash box.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureSir George TressadyYou play Sir George Tressady, elected to Parliament by seventeen votes and driven home through a crowd of angry miners who nearly stop the carriage.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureSons and LoversOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureTess of the d'UrbervillesYou play Tess Durbeyfield, the one red ribbon in a line of white dresses at the May dance in Marlott.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe AmbassadorsYou play Lambert Strether, sent to Europe to bring Chad Newsome home from Paris and whatever has kept him there.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Awkward AgeOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe BostoniansOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Brothers KaramazovThe Karamazovs arrive at a monastery to have an ailing elder settle what a father owes his eldest son.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe CopperheadOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Country of the Pointed FirsYou arrive in the fishing village of Dunnet Landing to finish a long piece of writing, and Mrs.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Damnation of Theron WareOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Doctor's WifeOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Evil GeniusOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Gates AjarOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Golden BowlYou play Prince Amerigo, days from marrying Maggie Verver, when her oldest friend Charlotte Stant asks you to help her choose a wedding gift.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Good SoldierTwo couples meet on a spa terrace at Nauheim.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe House Behind the CedarsA stranger in a fine coat stops across Front Street in Patesville, and he is your brother, gone ten years.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Last ManOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Late Mattia PascalYou play Mattia Pascal, alive, walking Miragno under your own name, and still dead in its civil register.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Life and Death of Harriett FreanOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Mayor of CasterbridgeOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Mormon ProphetYou cross the border from Kingston as Susianne, delivered to relatives who cannot agree on your name and certainly cannot agree on Joseph Smith.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Murder of DeliciaOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Path of a StarOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Portrait of a LadyTea is waiting under the trees at Gardencourt when your aunt walks you across the lawn.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe RainbowOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Red and the BlackYour father catches you reading above the saw blade and throws the book in the river.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Scarlet LetterA crowd has gathered at the prison door in Boston, and the goodwives nearest the threshold think the magistrates have been too gentle.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Story of a New Zealand RiverA punt loaded with furniture and children leaves a rotting landing at dawn, because the river is the only road to the new house.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Tragic MuseOngoing · 6 chaptersMatureThe Travels of Lao CanAn eight-masted ship, crowded with passengers, moves strangely beyond the reef; through the telescope her officers are arguing while the hull settles.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Vicar of WakefieldJune, six children at the tea table, and your son George marries Arabella Wilmot tomorrow.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenThe Zeit-GeistOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenWar and PeaceA Petersburg drawing room where every chair is assigned to a title before a guest sits in it.Ongoing · 6 chaptersTeenWhat Necessity KnowsYou play Robert, a college principal and rector, composing two overdue letters by lamplight while his housekeeper Mrs.Ongoing · 6 chaptersMatureWomen in LoveOngoing · 6 chaptersTeenA Girl of the PeopleThe other newspaper girls urged you toward an evening gathering where friends waited and Hester Wright would sing.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Life's MorningOverwork and a fainting fit had sent you down from Oxford to rest at The Firs before Trinity term properly began.Preview · 1 chapterTeenA Little Mother to the OthersYou returned slowly to the old garden after finding your mother's room closed for sleep.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAbbeychurchAfter a summer walk with her sisters, Helen Woodbourne returned to the schoolroom to finish a drawing begun that morning.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAn American PoliticianA few days before Christmas, Mrs. Snow lay hard outside while sleigh bells crossed the red winter sunset.Preview · 1 chapterTeenAt the Point of the BayonetYou had served Major Lindsay's family for ten years and nursed three children lost to the climate before the latest infant was born.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBeechcroft at RockstoneA telegram arrived while Jane Mohun was with her younger sister Adeline, whose dread of telegraph envelopes made her ask Jane to open it.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBorn in ExileRain had cleared before Whitelaw College filled for its annual prizes and the unveiling of Sir Job Whitelaw's statue.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBoy: A SketchFour-year-old Boy sat strapped in a feeding chair while his father staggered around the dining room singing and swearing.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBristol BellsBryda wanted to leave Bishop's Farm for Bristol, where Mrs.Preview · 1 chapterTeenBrooke's DaughterPreview · 1 chapterTeenCaleb FieldFrom a shepherd's remote Cumberland cottage, you watched the noon path for your father, an expelled Puritan minister living in danger.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCaritaYour brother James and his wife Annie had built a pleasant London life around travel, art, and the freedom of having only one child.Preview · 1 chapterTeenChristian MelvilleOn the cold final evening of December, you sat alone beside an uncurtained window while the busy town moved below.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCommodore JunkYou confronted Captain James Armstrong after learning that he intended to marry another woman.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCourt NetherleighOn the first morning of October, Frances Chenevix watched a distant group from Miss Margery's open window.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCousin MaryHorton Hall remained grand enough for an older fortune, though the present Prescotts lived carefully amid rooms built for splendour.Preview · 1 chapterTeenCripps, the CarrierThe Cripps family assigned trades by birth order, and Zacchary, eldest of his generation, inherited the Beckley carrier's road.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDawnPhilip Caresfoot cornered his cousin George beside the yard wall after learning who had reported ten missing pounds.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDeep DownNecessity brought you, Doctor Oliver Trembath, to Penzance with one worn case and hopes of finding work through an uncle.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDemosOn Good Friday you watched the valley works left motionless since old Mutimer's death three days earlier.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDon OrsinoNear my twenty-first birthday, three mornings each week belong to this family portrait.Preview · 1 chapterTeenDonal GrantYou left your Highland home on foot after disappointment closed the future you had quietly expected.Preview · 1 chapterTeenEffie OgilvieTwo years after your mother's death, your father announced that he would marry again and called the choice a benefit to his children.Preview · 1 chapterTeenEvan HarringtonThe Jocasta entered the Thames under a pale July morning, carrying you home from Portugal beside Rose Jocelyn.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFacing DeathShortly after noon, Bill Haden returned from Vaughan pit black with coal dust and blood that did not belong to him.Preview · 1 chapterTeenFighting the FlamesOn your first night as Louisa Auberly's maid, Hopkins led you into the severe quiet of her father's study.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGirls New and OldYou arrived at Redgarth after years dreaming of its great school life, then discovered that eagerness could coexist with sudden shyness.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGirls of the True BlueMrs Richmond entered the dismal lodging where your mother lay dying and asked how the illness had changed.Preview · 1 chapterTeenGuild CourtYou reached Richard Boxall's counting-house late enough for every punctual clerk to witness the failure.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHard CashA day at the Henley races puts the Dodd family's pride in Edward's oar.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHe Knew He Was RightTwo years after your sister's marriage, the Curzon Street drawing room still appeared to justify every early hope.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHeart and CrossYour seven-year-old son was strong, scarred by ordinary tumbles, indifferent to lessons, and passionately interested in other people's lives.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHeather and SnowKirsty knitted on a moorland stone while you described the honours an army career would bring.Preview · 1 chapterMatureHeriot's Choice: A TaleMildred Lambert has spent seven years beside a sickroom, and Arnold's letter ends with a postscript that changes the quiet house.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHopes and FearsAt the parish school in London, you taught Joseph's dream to children for whom growing wheat was entirely unknown.Preview · 1 chapterTeenHunted and HarriedA troop of dragoons crossed the Cairn and Cluden in search of Andrew Black and a forbidden religious gathering.Preview · 1 chapterTeenIn the Year of JubileeArthur Peachey had slipped away without breakfast for his first holiday in three years when you came singing downstairs.Preview · 1 chapterTeenInnocentSummer evening warmed the Briar Farm hayfield while Innocent and Robin Clifford waited atop the last loaded wagon.Preview · 1 chapterTeenIt Is Never Too Late to MendYou and your brother worked four hundred mostly sour arable acres at the Grove, a Berkshire farm whose hopeful name outlived every tree.Preview · 1 chapterTeenJill: A Flower GirlAt sixteen, you stood outside a brilliant reception with a flower basket and watched guests enter a world closed to the crowd.Preview · 1 chapterTeenKept in the DarkSir Francis Geraldine missed the morning appointment he had made with you, the third such absence since your engagement.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLand of DarknessThe Traveller landed hard on solid ground after a fall he could not remember beginning.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLight O' the MorningYou found Hannah on the drive looking past you as if she expected your father to appear at any moment.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLinda TresselThe clear stream below your window reflected three steep gables from the house your parents had left in your name.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLondon PrideA coach struggled through a February storm carrying Sir John Kirkland and seven-year-old Angela away from England.Preview · 1 chapterTeenLysbeth: A Tale of the DutchLysbeth van Hout skated toward Leyden's winter fete while Dirk van Goorl remained delayed by work at his bell foundry.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMagnum BonumJoe Brownlow asked his mother to receive the last and sickest measles patient from Miss Heath's school during its cleansing.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMary AnerleySeven farmers had once drowned at this crossing, after which Richard Yordas fixed a chain between stones to mark the safer shelf.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMary MarstonOn a cold May evening, Turnbull and Marston's dim old shop was nearly ready to close below the level of Testbridge street.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMiss MackenzieAfter fifteen years nursing your invalid brother, you waited outside the room where his latest will was opened.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMistress and MaidAt fifteen, you came beside your washerwoman mother to seek your first place in the modest home of three unmarried sisters.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMrs. Halliburton's TroublesOn a wet December evening, Jane Tait waited in the rectory while her father distributed weekly charity bread.Preview · 1 chapterTeenMy Young AlcidesAfter your mother's death, you remained at Arghouse only until the grandson named in your father's will could arrive from Australia.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNada the LilyA white transporter woke beyond Stanger to snow sweeping around two wagons and thirty-six oxen moaning at their trek-tows.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNo. XIII; or, The Story of the Lost VestalVerulam emptied itself to watch Alban's punishment, while Hyacintha remained in her mother's atrium with the British slave Ebba.Preview · 1 chapterTeenNot Like Other GirlsPreview · 1 chapterTeenOld Lady MaryLady Mary had lived through beauty, marriage, grief, poverty, and comfort, until gentle routine seemed safer than any future.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOliveCaptain Angus Rothesay was two months away when his wife bore their first child in rooms overlooking the winding Forth.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOmbraLangton-Courtenay was an immense house where Katherine Courtenay had grown up among servants, governesses, and rooms too large for one child.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOne of Our ConquerorsA gusty April noon caught your foot on London Bridge and laid you flat among market traffic and startled pedestrians.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOnly a ClodAt Port Arthur, Ensign Harcourt Lowther watched convict gardeners and resented heat, drought, duty, and a cigar that would not draw.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOswald CrayOn Hallingham market day, surgeon Richard Davenal stopped his carriage when poor Mrs.Preview · 1 chapterMatureOthmarAt seven o'clock the clipped bay and oak boughs make a chamber without walls around the marble fountain.Preview · 1 chapterTeenOur Friend the CharlatanYou overtook Reverend Lashmar near the village after returning to Alverholme for the first time in six years.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPaul Faber, SurgeonRector Bevis drove his own black horses toward Glaston's abbey church while his wife rode inside and an old woman sat behind with a heavy basket.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPenshurst Castle in the Time of Sir Philip SidneyLucy Gifford longed to leave the hilltop, while her widowed sister Mary guarded the old home and feared every glittering promise below.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPerlycrossIn 1835, you served Perlycross as its resident curate while the rector visited only when his tithes required attention.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPeveril of the PeakMartindale Castle and Moultrassie Hall stood two miles apart, their households divided by Civil War allegiance but joined by difficult acts of mercy.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPolly: A New-Fashioned GirlOn a breathless July day, you lay hidden in long grass beside the hedge with one hand beneath a low bough.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPoor GentlemanPalladian stone, terraces, parterres, statues, and waterworks that had begun to fall out of order.Preview · 1 chapterTeenPrimrose PathPreview · 1 chapterTeenQuicksilverA toddler in an oversized blue jersey sat in moss beside the road, splashing spring water through dusty yellow curls.Preview · 1 chapterTeenQuiet HeartThe Burnside paths still shone after rain, and the burn hurried beneath its little bridge.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRhoda FlemingOn May Day, Queen Anne's Farm opened its green to village children crowned with flowers by you and Dahlia.Preview · 1 chapterTeenRose in JuneMr Damerel sat beneath the lime-trees with a book and a rose in a Venice glass.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSandra BelloniYour sisters had heard a magnificent voice after dark in the neighbouring wood and built an elegant mystery around it.Preview · 1 chapterTeenSir GibbieIn a narrow dirty lane, Mistress Croale stood outside her drink shop and ordered a ragged child to leave the gutter.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Actress' Daughter: A NovelA light burns in the ruined house beyond Miss Jerusha Skamp's snowbound cottage.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Chaplet of PearlsDuring the celebrations for the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, King Henri II arranged one more reconciliation beneath the portal of Notre-Dame.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Crown of LifeAt twenty-one you crossed from Waterloo toward a luncheon appointment and stopped before engravings in the Haymarket.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Curate in ChargeBrentburn stood where rich woodland met pine and heather, with a new Gothic church and an ungainly but comfortable rectory.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Daughter of a SoldierOn the longest summer day, you rested among periwinkles after serving a household that called your orphanhood charity.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Doctor's FamilyYou built a practice in Carlingford's raw new quarter, where a red surgery lamp mattered more than acceptance in Grange Lane.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Dove in the Eagle's NestYou held seedpods beside Master Gottfried's carving while the unfinished minster spire shone beyond his workshop window.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Elect LadyYou held Andrew Ingram's unfinished poem as though education had appointed you its natural judge.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe EmancipatedNovember sunlight filled your Posillipo room while you wrote instructions to the household left at Redbeck.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Gypsy Queen's VowStorm clouds race above the north road, and a yellow fog hides London while Ketura walks toward its distant lights.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Heart of RomeBaroness Volterra reached Palazzo Conti at nine to recruit Donna Clementina's name for a new charity.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Heir Presumptive and the Heir ApparentLetitia Ravelstone came from a hunting family whose horses filled every conversation while her own ambition looked toward wider society.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe InfidelAt twenty, Antonia Thornton copied her father's hurried prose and carried manuscripts between Rupert Buildings and the booksellers.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Kellys and the O'KellysDublin crowded around the State Trials while you and your brother waited for places among men arguing over O'Connell.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Lady of BlossholmeOn the last day of 1535, Sir John Foterell read an abbey letter claiming lands his family had held for generations.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Little Lame PrinceNomansland had waited ten years for an heir, and its six-week-old prince now drew nearly every eye away from his ailing mother.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Log House by the LakePhilip Ashton paused at the Portman Square knocker, with the late light on his glove and a decision he had rehearsed all the way home.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe MassarenesHomburg's paths carry parasols, uniforms, and titled boredom past the tree where Margaret Massarene sits alone.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Master-ChristianThe bells of Rouen rang the Angelus while workers, bargemen, and schoolchildren decided separately whether habit still meant faith.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Minister's WifeThe Glebe Cottage grew out of a thatched building and a little gentility, with heather pressing one wall and roses climbing the other.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Nether WorldYou ran into the public house with Mrs Peckover's jug while sleet gathered over Clerkenwell Green.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Palace BeautifulA month after your mother's sudden death, the Rosebury cottage still held three sisters who had admitted no visitor.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Pastor's Fire-sideLate on a September evening, one sailed boat carried Marquis Santa Cruz, his son Ferdinand, and a servant from the mainland to Lindisfarne.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe RectorCarlingford wants to know which religious faction its new rector belongs to before anyone has heard him preach.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Reputed ChangelingYou and Lucy Archfield walked home from your French school comparing a strange local boy to a misshapen prince in a fairy tale.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Shadow of AshlydyatPrior's Ash gathered on an autumn common for the season's first meeting of the hounds.Preview · 1 chapterMatureThe Tale of GenjiSpring illness had brought your grandmother to a mountain temple where blossoms outnumbered visitors.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Three ClerksAt ten precisely you entered Somerset House to seek a clerkship and found only two messengers warming themselves.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe Treasure of HeavenAt midnight in a suffocating London June, David Helmsley sat with his solicitor on a balcony above the restless season.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe TrialRichard arrived for tea while you, Mary, Aubrey, and Gertrude traded jokes over letters from Blanche's Edinburgh honeymoon.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe UnclassedA child's call brought you downstairs to a schoolroom filled with screams, sobs, and girls retreating from one corner.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThe WhirlpoolYou dined in your usual quiet corner while Cecil Morphew explained how five pounds won in speculation proved a reliable method.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThomas Wingfold, CurateNovember wind moved the ferns beside the river while you sat on a stone repeating Horace to yourself.Preview · 1 chapterTeenThyrzaJuly sunlight entered the Ullswater breakfast room while Paula Tyrrell mourned a London season ended by measles.Preview · 1 chapterMatureTiny LuttrellJack Swift expects an inspection from the owner of Wallandoon station.Preview · 1 chapterTeenUncle MaxUrsula had returned from hospital in mourning for her twin brother Charlie, carrying a plan for work that her family treated as another mood.Preview · 1 chapterTeenVeranildaWar had broken Italy when illness allowed you to leave Rome for the Anician villa above Surrentum.Preview · 1 chapterTeenVia CrucisAt sunset in May 1145, Lady Goda walked beside the moat of Stoke Regis and watched the road beyond the oaks.Preview · 1 chapterTeenWoodstockIn 1652 Woodstock's damaged church filled for thanksgiving after Worcester, its old worshippers displaced by civil war.Preview · 1 chapter

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