The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook

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Fated to be Free.

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Confidence.

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The Queen of Connaught. The Dark Colleen.

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Number Seventeen. Oakshott Castle.

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Lost Rose. The Evil Eye.

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Open! Sesame! Written in Fire.

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Touch and Go.

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A Life's Atonement. Joseph's Coat.

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Whiteladies.

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Her Mother's Darling.

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Bound to the Wheel. Guy Waterman. One Against the World. The Lion in the Path. The Two Dreamers.

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Proud Maisie. Cressida. The Violin-Player.

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The Way we Live Now. The American Senator.

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Leo.

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A Point of Honour. Archie Lovell.

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Felicia.

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Roxy.

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Polly. Bella Donna. Never Forgotten. The Second Mrs. Tillotson. Seventy-five Brooke Street.

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Filthy Lucre.

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Olympia. Queen Cophetua.

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The Capel Girls.

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Robin Gray. For Lack of Gold. What will the World Say? In Honour Bound. The Dead Heart. In Love and War. For the King. Queen of the Meadow. In Pastures Green.

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Dick Temple.

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Paul Wynter's Sacrifice.

_BY THOMAS HARDY._

Under the Greenwood Tree.

_BY JULIAN HAWTHORNE._

Garth. Ellice Quentin.

_BY TOM HOOD._

A Golden Heart.

_BY VICTOR HUGO._

The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

_BY MRS. ALFRED HUNT._

Thornicroft's Model.

_BY JEAN INGELOW._

Fated to be Free.

_BY HENRY JAMES, Jun._

Confidence.

_BY HARRIETT JAY._

The Queen of Connaught. The Dark Colleen.

_BY HENRY KINGSLEY._

Number Seventeen. Oakshott Castle.

_BY E. LYNN LINTON._

Patricia Kemball. Atonement of Leam Dundas. The World Well Lost. Under which Lord? With a Silken Thread.

_BY JUSTIN McCARTHY, M.P._

The Waterdale Neighbours. Dear Lady Disdain. My Enemy's Daughter. A Fair Saxon. Linley Rochford. Miss Misanthrope. Donna Quixote.

_BY AGNES MACDONELL._

Quaker Cousins.

_BY KATHARINE S. MACQUOID._

The Evil Eye. Lost Rose.

_BY FLORENCE MARRYAT._

Open! Sesame! A Harvest of Wild Oats. A Little Stepson. Fighting the Air. Written in Fire.

_BY JEAN MIDDLEMASS._

Touch and Go. Mr. Dorillion.

_BY D. CHRISTIE MURRAY._

A Life's Atonement.

_BY MRS. OLIPHANT._

Whiteladies.

_BY OUIDA._

Held In Bondage. Strathmore. Chandos. Under Two Flags. Idalia. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage. Tricotrin. Puck. Folle Farine. A Dog of Flanders. Pascarel. Two Little Wooden Shoes. Signa. In a Winter City. Ariadne. Friendship. Moths. Pipistrello. A Village Commune.

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Lost Sir Massingberd. A Perfect Treasure. Bentinck's Tutor. Murphy's Master. A County Family. At Her Mercy. A Woman's Vengeance. Cecil's Tryst. The Clyffards of Clyffe. The Family Scapegrace. The Foster Brothers. Found Dead. Gwendoline's Harvest. Humorous Stories. Like Father, Like Son. A Marine Residence. Married Beneath Him. Mirk Abbey. Not Wooed, but Won. Two Hundred Pounds Reward. The Best of Husbands. Walter's Word. Halves. Fallen Fortunes. What He Cost Her. Less Black than we're Painted. By Proxy. Under One Roof. High Spirits. A Confidential Agent. Carlyon's Year.

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The Mystery of Marie Roget.

_BY CHARLES READE, D.C.L._

It is Never Too Late to Mend. Hard Cash. Peg Woffington. Christie Johnstone. Griffith Gaunt. The Double Marriage. Love Me Little, Love Me Long. Foul Play. The Cloister and the Hearth. The Course of True Love. The Autobiography of a Thief. Put Yourself in his Place.

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Her Mother's Darling.

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Gaslight and Daylight.

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Bound to the Wheel. Guy Waterman. One Against the World. The Lion in the Path.

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A Match in the Dark.

_BY WALTER THORNBURY._

Tales for the Marines.

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Diamond Cut Diamond.

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The Way we Live Now. The American Senator.

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A Pleasure Trip in Europe. Tom Sawyer. An Idle Excursion.

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Sabina.

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=Tales of Old Thule.=

Collected and Illustrated by J. MOYR SMITH.

One Vol., crown 8vo, cloth extra, 7_s._ 6_d._

=Taylor's (Tom) Historical Dramas=:

"Clancarty," "Jeanne D'arc," "'Twixt Axe and Crown," "The Fool's Revenge," "Arkwright's Wife," "Anne Boleyn," "Plot and Passion."

*** The Plays may also be had separately, at 1_s._ each.

Crown 8vo, cloth extra, with numerous Illustrations, 7_s._ 6_d._

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