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INTERFERENCE A NOVEL, VOL 2 (OF 3)

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "The wide hilly street was lined by noble and imposing residences, that looked as if they had quitted country parks and pleasure grounds, and ﬂocked together for company liberally planned gardens celebrated for fruit and roses - sloped away from French Windows at the rear of these mansions, to the very brink of a slow brown canalmonce glorified by ﬂy boats galloping te...

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INTERFERENCE A NOVEL, VOL 3 (OF 3)

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "The wide hilly street was lined by noble and imposing residences, that looked as if they had quitted country parks and pleasure grounds, and ﬂocked together for company liberally planned gardens celebrated for fruit and roses - sloped away from French Windows at the rear of these mansions, to the very brink of a slow brown canalmonce glorified by ﬂy boats galloping te...

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A ROLLING STONE

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "After a day of strenuous social activities, Lady Kesters was enjoying a well-earned rest, reposing at full length on a luxurious Chesterfield, with cushions of old brocade piled at her back and a new French novel in her hand. Nevertheless, her attention wandered from Anatole France; every few minutes she raised her head to listen intently, then, as a little silver clo...

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INTERFERENCE A NOVEL, VOL 1 (OF 3)

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "The wide hilly street was lined by noble and imposing residences, that looked as if they had quitted country parks and pleasure grounds, and ﬂocked together for company liberally planned gardens celebrated for fruit and roses - sloped away from French Windows at the rear of these mansions, to the very brink of a slow brown canalmonce glorified by ﬂy boats galloping te...

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MR. JERVIS, VOL. 3 (OF 3)

B. M. CROKER

Mr. Croker writes amusingly when he describes Anglo-Indian life at some health station in Hindustan. There are two women in his story, the worldly Mrs. Langshire and the rather vulgar Mrs. Brande. Both are the wives of Indian officials. These ladies have nieces. Mrs. Langshire's niece is Lalla Paske, Mrs. Brande's Honor Gordon. ...

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ODDS AND ENDS

B. M. CROKER

Odds and Ends is a collection of short stories written by B. M. Croker. This anthology presents a diverse array of narratives, each exploring different aspects of life, society, and human nature. B. M. Croker was an Irish-born British novelist who wrote during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and her works often depicted aspects of British colonial life in India. ...

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MR. JERVIS, VOL. 2 (OF 3)

B. M. CROKER

Mr. Croker writes amusingly when he describes Anglo-Indian life at some health station in Hindustan. There are two women in his story, the worldly Mrs. Langshire and the rather vulgar Mrs. Brande. Both are the wives of Indian officials. These ladies have nieces. Mrs. Langshire's niece is Lalla Paske, Mrs. Brande's Honor Gordon. ...

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MR. JERVIS, VOL. 1 (OF 3)

B. M. CROKER

Mr. Croker writes amusingly when he describes Anglo-Indian life at some health station in Hindustan. There are two women in his story, the worldly Mrs. Langshire and the rather vulgar Mrs. Brande. Both are the wives of Indian officials. These ladies have nieces. Mrs. Langshire's niece is Lalla Paske, Mrs. Brande's Honor Gordon. ...

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"TO LET"

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "Some years ago, when I was a slim young spin, I came out to India to live with my brother Tom: he and I were members of a large and somewhat impecunious family, and I do not think my mother was sorry to have one of her four grown-up daughters thus taken off her hands. Tom’s wife, Aggie, had been at school with my eldest sister; we had known and liked her all our lives...

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IN OLD MADRAS

B. M. CROKER

Captain Mallender comes to old Madras in search of his uncle, once a reputable officer in the Blue Hussars, who disappeared mysteriously about thirty years ago. The blood-curdling reality that awaits Mallender at the end of his hazardous mission is beyond human imagination. (Goodreads) ...

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JUNGLE TALES

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: ""Kismiss," as the natives call it, is anything but a jovial and merry season to me, and I Heartily sympathize with those prudent souls who flee from the station or cantonment, and bury themselves afar off in the jungle, until the festive season has been succeeded by the practical New Year! Christmas in India is an expensive anniversary to a needy subaltern such as I a...

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GIVEN IN MARRIAGE

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: ""I say, did you hear old pensioner Jones, jawing away to Haji Aboo about the gold reefs, that lie round Tappah? An eager young planter put this question to his companion, as together they—or rather their horses—toiled up a sharp ascent. "Oh yes, I heard him," grunted the other with a shrug. "And what did you think, Ted?" "That the old boy was drunk as usual," was the ...

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A BIRD OF PASSAGE

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: ""Droops the heavy-blossom'd bower; hangs the heavy-fruited tree; Summer isles of Eden lying in dark purple spheres of sea." Locksley Hall. Few travellers penetrate to the Andamans, unless it be an enthusiastic astronomer to witness a rare comet, or an enterprising professor, who happens to be fired with a desire to study the language and the skulls of the aborigines. ...

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A NINE DAYS' WONDER

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "A Tall grey-haired soldier, with a professionally straight back, stood looking out of an upper window in the "Rag" one wet October afternoon. His hands were buried in his pockets, and his face was clothed with an expression of almost mediaeval gloom. The worldly wise mask their emotions so that those who run may not read, but Colonel Doran had lived so many years amon...

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QUICKSANDS

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "One sultry September afternoon, some years ago, my brother Ronald and I, being tired and dusty, found a temporary resting-place on the parapet of a little old bridge that spanned a sleepy stream. Through a thin silk blouse a comforting sun beat upon my back, and I was serenely conscious of an unusual sense of happiness and well-being - though I owed little to my surro...

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THE SERPENT'S TOOTH

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "As a child, Letty had promised to be rather pretty, and Mrs. Fenchurch believed that with her own social advantages, she would marry her off ere long; but before arriving at this happy period, she resolved to make the poor relation useful in the house. She should dust china, arrange flowers, pour out tea, help in the garden, and take over the Mothers' Sewing Club. Her...

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ANGEL, A SKETCH IN INDIAN INK

B. M. CROKER

Excerpt: "It was the middle of March in the North-West Provinces, and the hot weather had despatched several heralds to Ramghur, announcing its imminent approach. Punkahs were swinging lazily in barrack rooms, the annual ice notice had made a round of the station, many families had quitted the sweltering cantonments for the misty Himalayas, and the brain fever bird had arrived!...

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THE ROAD TO MANDALAY, A TALE OF BURMA

B. M. CROKER

In B.M. Croker's pre-WWI tale of the Orient, Englishman Douglass Shafto travels to Burma. Along the way he meets Sophy, falls completely in love, and so begins the story of their adventures in the exotic lands of the East. This tale weaves through drug lords and high society; through great cities and desolate countryside; Douglass and Sophy then tackle the dangers and trials of...

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