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by Stephen Crane
Publisher: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1899
Number of pages: 358
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Rufus Coleman is now a respectable member of society, an editor of the New York Eclipse. He is hoping to marry Majory Wainwright despite her father's reservations. As the war between Turkey and Greece erupts we find Majory unable to return from her trip to Greece.
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