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The Boys' Life of Mark TwainThe Boys' Life of Mark TwainThis is the story of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, reared almost without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-day have no existence, yet who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attain honorary degrees from...
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Tea LeavesTea LeavesThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the texts....
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Old Fritz and the New EraOld Fritz and the New Era FOREWORD OLD FRITZ AND THE NEW ERA. BOOK I. OLD FRITZ. CHAPTER I. THE LONELY KING. CHAPTER II. WILHELMINE ENKE. CHAPTER III. FREDERICK WILLIAM. CHAPTER IV. THE DRIVE TO BERLIN. CHAPTER V. THE OATH OF FIDELITY. CHAPTER VI....
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The GadflyThe Gadfly Arthur sat in the library of the theological seminary at Pisa, looking through a pile of manuscript sermons. It was a hot evening in June, and the windows stood wide open, with the shutters half closed for coolness. The Father Director, Canon...
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The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de LuynesThe Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes CHAPTER I. OF HOW A BOY DRANK TOO MUCH WINE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT CHAPTER II. THE FRUIT OF INDISCRETION CHAPTER III. THE FIGHT IN THE HORSE-MARKET...
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St. George for EnglandSt. George for England MY DEAR LADS, You may be told perhaps that there is no good to be obtained from tales of fighting and bloodshed,that there is no moral to be drawn from such histories. Believe it not. War has its lessons as...
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The Strolling Saint being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina, in the state of PiacenzaThe Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina, in the state of Piacenza BOOK I. THE OBLATE CHAPTER I. NOMEN ET OMEN CHAPTER II. GINO FALCONE CHAPTER III. THE PIETISTIC THRALL CHAPTER...
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A Vindication of the Rights of WomanA Vindication of the Rights of Woman - With Strictures on Political and Moral SubjectsThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with...
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William Ewart GladstoneWilliam Ewart GladstoneNo man has lived in our times of whom it is so hard to speak in a concise and summary fashion as Mr. Gladstone. For forty years he was so closely associated with the public affairs of his country that the record...
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The American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great InterpretersThe American Spirit in Literature: A Chronicle of Great Interpreters Title: The American Spirit in Literature, A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, Volume 34 in The Chronicles Of America Series Author: Bliss Perry Editor: Allen Johnson Release Date: January 15, 2009 [EBook #3410] Last Updated:...
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The Golden Chersonese and the Way ThitherThe Golden Chersonese and the Way ThitherIn presenting to the public the last installment of my travels in the Far East, in 1879, I desire to offer, both to my readers and critics, my grateful acknowledgments for the kindness with which my letters from...
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The Spell of EgyptThe Spell of Egypt I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII Why do you come to Egypt? Do you come to gain a dream, or to regain lost dreams of old; to gild...
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The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of PesaroThe Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro For three days I had been cooling my heels about the Vatican, vexed by suspense. It fretted me that...
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Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysComplete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they...
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My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives of its...
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Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles,...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Elsewhere we literary folk are apt to be such a common lot, with tendencies here and there to be a shabby lot; we arrive from all sorts of unexpected holes and corners of the earth, remote, obscure;...
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The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)We had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in Old Cambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened...
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Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)I have already spoken of my earliest meetings with Lowell at Cambridge when I came to New England on a literary pilgrimage from the West in 1860. I saw him more and more after I went to...
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Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Being the wholly literary spirit I was when I went to make my home in Cambridge, I do not see how I could well have been more content if I had found myself in the Elysian Fields with...
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