title: The Rundelstone of Oz
author: Eloise McGraw
description: Eloise McGraw was born in 1915 in Houston, Texas. She grew up in Oklahoma, and for much of her adult life lived in Oregon. Her first book for children, Sawdust in His Shoes (1950), was followed by twenty others, including the perennially popular Mara: Daughter of the Nile (1953) and three Newbery Honor books, Moccasin Trail (1952), The Golden Goblet (1961), and The Moorchild (1996). She was married to William Corbin McGraw, also a writer of books for children. They had two children and five grandchildren. Mrs. McGraws two previous additions to the Oz series, co-authored with her daughter, Lauren Lynn McGraw, are Merry Go Round in Oz (1963) and The Forbidden Fountain of Oz (1980). She died in 2000.
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  # Autres Temps
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edith Wharton
  
  
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  Produced by David Widger
  
  
  AUTRES TEMPS...
  
  
  By Edith Wharton
  
  
  Copyright, 1916, By Charles Scribner's Sons
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  Mrs. Lidcote, as the huge menacing mass of New York defined itself
  
  
  far off across the waters, shrank back into her corner of the deck and
  
  
  sat listening with a kind of unreasoning terror to the steady onward
  
  
  drive of the screws.
  
  
    
  She had set out on the voyage quietly enough,—in what she called
  
  
  her “reasonable” mood,—but the week at sea had given her too much time
  
  
  to think of things and had left her too long alone with the past.
  
  
    
  When she was alone, it wa