The Californians
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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This book depicts life in California at the turn of the century as seen through the experienes of the shy, plain daughter of a Spanish grandee and the vivacious, beautiful daughter of a San Francisco entrepreneur. Six 90-minute cassettes.
Chapters (69)(click to expand)
- E-text prepared by David Clarke, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenbertg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana)
- THE CALIFORNIANS
- JOHN LANE: THE BODLEY HEAD LONDON AND NEW YORK 1898 THIRD EDITION University Press, Cambridge, U. S. A.
- TO N. L.
- CONTENTS
- BOOK I
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- BOOK II
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- VII
- VIII
- IX
- X
- XI
- XII
- XIII
- XIV
- XV
- XVI
- XVII
- XVIII
- XIX
- XX
- XXI
- XXII
- XXIII
- XXIV
- XXV
- XXVI
- XXVII
- XXVIII
- XXIX
- XXX
- XXXI
- Some Novels Published by John Lane
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