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Vrakets hemmelighetVrakets hemmelighetMin far var en av de glggeste forretningsmnd i staten Muskegon, og det voldte ham stor sorg at jeg ikke viste nogetsomhelst anlg for kampen om pengene. Jeg har aldrig i mit liv brydd mig et fnugg om andet end kunst. Da jeg...
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Le mort vivantLe mort vivantCombien le lecteur,tandis que, commodment assis au coin de son feu, il s'amuse feuilleter les pages d'un roman,combien il se rend peu compte des fatigues et des angoisses de l'auteur! Combien il nglige de se reprsenter les longues nuits de luttes contre...
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Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3)Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) - Who Is She? The following story is founded on facts which came within the knowledge of the writer. The precise point at which truth ends, and fiction begins, it is not necessary to divulge; but...
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To Tell You the TruthTo Tell You the TruthShe was born in Chauville-le-Vieux. Her mother gave piano lessons at the local Lyce de Jeunes Filles, and her father had been "professeur de violon" at the little Conservatoire. Music was her destiny. As a hollow-eyed, stunted child, who should...
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Munster VillageMunster Village The page references in the footnotes do not correspondent to the page numbers in the used edition of the book. the targets of the hyperlinks have been set to the most probable positions Lord Munster devoted himself entirely to ambition: what has...
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Old Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane AustenOld Friends and New Fancies: An Imaginary Sequel to the Novels of Jane AustenIn this little attempt at picturing the after-adventures of some of Jane Austen's characters I have made use of the references to them which she herself made, and which are recorded...
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14th Century Verse and ProseFourteenth Century Verse & ProseTwo periods of our early history promise most for the future of English literaturethe end of the seventh with the eighth century; the end of the twelfth century with the thirteenth. In the first a flourishing vernacular poetry is secondary...
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The Shoes of FortuneThe Shoes of FortuneIt is an odd thing, chancethe one element to baffle the logician and make the scheming of the wisest look as foolish in the long run as the sandy citadel a child builds upon the shore without any thought of the...
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Bud: A NovelBud: A NovelTHE town's bell rang through the dark of the winter morning with queer little jolts and pauses, as if Wanton Wully Oliver, the ringer, had been jovial the night before. A blithe New-Year's-time bell; a droll, daft, scatter-brained bell; it gave no...
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The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling StoriesThe Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling StoriesTO the make of a piper go seven years of his own learning and seven generations before. If it is in, it will out, as the Gaelic old-word says; if not, let him take to the net or...
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His Majesty Baby and Some Common PeopleHis Majesty Baby and Some Common PeopleUNTIL the a'bus stopped and the old gentleman entered, we had been a contented and genial company, travelling from a suburb into the city in high, good fellowship, and our absolute monarch was Baby. His mother was evidently...
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The Days of Auld Lang SyneThe Days of Auld Lang SyneFarms were held on lease in Drumtochty, and according to a good old custom descended from father to son, so that some of the farmers' forbears had been tenants as long as Lord Kilspindie's ancestors had been owners. If...
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Wednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South PacificWednesday the Tenth, A Tale of the South PacificOn the eighteenth day out from Sydney, we were cruising under the lee of Erromangaof course you know Erromanga, an isolated island between the New Hebrides and the Loyalty groupwhen suddenly our dusky Polynesian boy, Nassaline,...
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Anne of Geierstein Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 1 (of 2)Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 1 (of 2)This novel was written at a time when circumstances did not place within my reach the stores of a library tolerably rich in historical works, and especially the memoirs of the Middle...
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The Cardinal MothThe Cardinal MothI.FLOWERS OF BLOOD II.ANGELA III.CROSSED SWORDS IV.A DUSKY POTENTATE V.AN INTERRUPTED FEAST VI.BIT OF THE ROPE VII.A GRIP OF STEEL VIII.THE WEAKER VESSEL IX.A WORD TO THE WISE X.A WORD TO THE WISE. XI.BORROWED PLUMES XII.A MODEL HUSBAND XIII.THE QUEEN OF THE...
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Poeta de Tristibus Or, The Poet's ComplaintPoeta de Tristibus; Or, The Poet's ComplaintPoeta de Tristibus: or, the Poet's Complaint (PdT) was published by two newly established booksellers, Henry Faithorne and John Kersey, early in November 1681 (title-page dated 1682). The poem is only one of a large number of Restoration...
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The Scottish History of James the FourthThe Scottish History of James the Fourth - 1598No edition, however, is known before 1598, and it would be natural to suspect that the original impression had perished were it not for the fact that 1598 is also the date of the earliest known...
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The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 228. The text represented in Whitaker's edition here differs much from the other. Our dreamer is there introduced very unadvisedly telling us of this tower, 'truthe was therynne,' a piece of information which he only learns...
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The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 1T is now thirteen years since the first edition of the following text of this important poem was published by the late Mr. Pickering, during which time the study of our old literature and history has...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 02The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 02 - The Rambler, Volume I An attentive consideration of the period at which any work of moral instruction has appeared, and of the admonitions appropriate to the state of those times, is highly...
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