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From H. B. Irving’s A Book of Remarkable Criminals comes the definitive account of the Eyraud–Bompard affair—one of Paris’s most sensational 1889 murders. When the genial bailiff Gouffe vanishes, a trail of an empty trunk, scorched matches, and a grim discovery near Lyons draws master...

A widow, a way-bag, and a night ride over Burnt Ridge—Bret Harte’s classic Western short story, first published in 1891, blends frontier romance with a taut tale of honor and quiet heroism. In Laurel Run, Betsy Baker, the camp’s beloved postmistress and the steadfast widow of a fallen...

# A Yankee in Canada What happens when one of America’s most independent thinkers crosses the border and looks back at his own country from the outside? In *A Yankee in Canada*, Henry David Thoreau recounts his journey from New England into French Canada, traveling through Montreal, Quebec...