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Legends of the Middle AgesLegends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and ArtWhile they may owe more than is apparent at first sight to the classical writings of the palmy days of Greece and Rome, these legends are very characteristic of the people...
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Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsToaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsNothing so frightens a man as the announcement that he is expected to respond to a toast on some appallingly near-by occasion. All ideas he may ever have had on the subject melt away and like a drowning man...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 01 he plan of this Work is simple, and yet it is novel. In its distinctive features it differs from any compilation that has yet been made. Its main purpose is to present...
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The Story of My Life: Recollections and ReflectionsThe Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections For years I have contemplated telling this story, and for years I have put off telling it. While I have delayed, my memory has not improved, and my recollections of the past are more hazy and...
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Delsarte System of OratoryDelsarte System of OratoryOrators, you are called to the ministry of speech. You have fixed your choice upon the pulpit, the bar, the tribune or the stage. You will become one day, preacher, advocate, lecturer or actor; in short, you desire to embrace the...
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The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery TalesThe Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales - Including Stories by Feodor Mikhailovitch Dostoyevsky, Jörgen WilhelmThere was a card party at the rooms of Naroumoff, of the Horse Guards. The long winter night passed away imperceptibly, and it was five o'clock in the morning...
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Studies in LiteratureStudies in LiteratureThe contents of the present collection have all been in print before, either in the Nineteenth Century and Fortnightly Review, or in some other shape. I have to thank the proprietors of the two periodicals named for sanctioning the reproduction of my...
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Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3Kennedy's suit-case was lying open on the bed, and he was literally throwing things into it from his chiffonier, as I entered after a hurried trip up-town from the Star office in response to an urgent message from him....
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Between You and MeBetween You and MeSay, Mate, don't you figure it's great To think, when the war is all over, And we're thro' with the mud And the spilling of blood, And we're shipped back again to old Dover; When they've paid us our tin And...
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The Palmy Days of Nance OldfieldThe Palmy Days of Nance OldfieldSurely a star, possibly Venus, must have danced gaily on a certain night in the year of grace 1683, when the wife of Captain Oldfield, gentleman by birth and Royal Guardsman by profession, brought into the busy, unfeeling world...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction In mentioning "Quentin Durward" for the first time Scott speaks of himself as having been ill, and "Peveril" as having suffered through it. "I propose a good rally, however," he says, "and hope it will...
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A Williams AnthologyA Williams Anthology - A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910The present work owes its existence to a conviction on the part of its editors that much material published by past Williams undergraduates in past and present literary periodicals of...
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McClure's Magazine December, 1895McClure's Magazine December, 1895LIFE IN INDIANA.REMOVAL TO ILLINOIS.LINCOLN STARTS OUT IN LIFE FOR HIMSELF AT TWENTY-ONE.THE BUILDING OF THE FLATBOAT AND THE TRIP TO NEW ORLEANS.LINCOLN HIRES OUT AS A GROCERY CLERK IN NEW SALEM.HIS FIRST VOTE. Abraham Lincoln grew to manhood in Southern...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction The novels of Thomas Love Peacock still find admirers among cultured readers, but his extravagant satire and a certain bookish awkwardness will never appeal to the great novel-reading public. The son of a London glass...
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Behind the News: Voices from Goa's PressBehind the News: Voices from Goa's PressCopyleft, 2003. May be copied provided entire text is kept intact, and credit is given to all who have contributed to this work. While every attempt has been made to maintain accuracy, we would appreciate inaccuracies being pointed...
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PoetryPoetryAs the tale is told by Plato, in the tenth book of his Republic, one Er the son of Arminius, a Pamphylian, was slain in battle; and ten days afterwards, when they collected the bodies for burial, his body alone showed no taint of...
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Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's HandbookAaron (St.), a British martyr of the City of Legions (Newport, in South Wales). He was torn limb from limb by order of Maximian'us Hercu'lius, general...
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Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5JONATHAN SWIFT. GULLIVER'S TRAVELS Jonathan Swift THE BALLAD OF AGINCOURT Michael Drayton SOME CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF THE PAST Grace E Sellon LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT Cardinal Veuman LET SOMETHING GOOD BE SAID James Whitcomb Riley POLONIUS' ADVICE Shakespeare KING ARTHUR BALIN...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — FictionAcknowledgment and thanks for permission to use the following selections are herewith tendered to G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for "The Death of the Gods," by Dmitri Merejkowski; and to Doubleday, Page & Company, New York,...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 05 — FictionThe story opens on a grey October afternoon in the Isle of Wight, in the 'sixties. Alma Lee, the coachman's handsome young daughter, is toiling up a steep hill overlooking Chalkburne, tired and laden with parcels...
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