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The God of His Fathers: Tales of the KlondykeThe God of His Fathers: Tales of the KlondykeThe God of His Fathers The Great Interrogation Which Make Men Remember Siwash The Man with the Gash Jan, the Unrepentant Grit of Women Where the Trail Forks A Daughter of the Aurora At the Rainbows...
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Ferragus, Chief of the DévorantsFerragus, Chief of the Dévorants Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one...
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The Brick Moon, and Other StoriesThe Brick Moon, and Other StoriesTO read these stories again, thirty and more years after they were written, is to recall many memories, sad or glad, with which this reader need not be interrupted. But I have to make sure that they are intelligible...
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Little NovelsLittle Novels THE course of this narrative describes the return of a disembodied spirit to earth, and leads the reader on new and strange ground. Not in the obscurity of midnight, but in the searching light of day, did the supernatural influence assert itself....
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"I Say No""I Say No" Outside the bedroom the night was black and still. The small rain fell too softly to be heard in the garden; not a leaf stirred in the airless calm; the watch-dog was asleep, the cats were indoors; far or near, under...
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My Lady's MoneyMy Lady's Money OLD Lady Lydiard sat meditating by the fireside, with three letters lying open on her lap. Time had discolored the paper, and had turned the ink to a brownish hue. The letters were all addressed to the same personTHE RT. HON....
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The Evil Genius: A Domestic StoryThe Evil Genius: A Domestic Story BEFORE THE STORY. THE STORY FIRST BOOK. Chapter I. Mrs. Presty Presents Herself. Chapter II. The Governess Enters. Chapter III. Mrs. Presty Changes Her Mind. Chapter IV. Randal Receives His Correspondence. Chapter V. Randal Writes to New York....
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After DarkAfter Dark I have taken some pains to string together the various stories contained in this Volume on a single thread of interest, which, so far as I know, has at least the merit of not having been used before. The pages entitled Leahs...
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The Frozen DeepThe Frozen Deep The date is between twenty and thirty years ago. The place is an English sea-port. The time is night. And the business of the moment isdancing. The Mayor and Corporation of the town are giving a grand ball, in celebration of...
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The Two DestiniesThe Two Destinies I LOOKED at the house. It was an inn, of no great size, but of respectable appearance. If I was to be of any use to her that night, the time had come to speak of other subjects than the subject...
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The Law and the LadyThe Law and the Lady IN offering this book to you, I have no Preface to write. I have only to request that you will bear in mind certain established truths, which occasionally escape your memory when you are reading a work of fiction....
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Miss or Mrs.?Miss or Mrs.? The night had come to an end. The new-born day waited for its quickening light in the silence that is never known on landthe silence before sunrise, in a calm at sea. Not a breath came from the dead air. Not...
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The Golden Fleece: A RomanceThe Golden Fleece: A Romance The professor crossed one long, lean leg over the other, and punched down the ashes in his pipe-bowl with the square tip of his middle finger. The thermometer on the shady veranda marked eighty-seven degrees of heat, and nature...
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Essays in LittleEssays in LittleOf the following essays, five are new, and were written for this volume. They are the paper on Mr. R. L. Stevenson, the Letter to a Young Journalist, the study of Mr. Kipling, the note on Homer, and The Last Fashionable Novel....
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A Rogue's LifeA Rogue's Life In the original form of publication the Rogue was very favorably received. Year after year, I delayed the republication, proposing, at the suggestion of my old friend, Mr. Charles Reade, to enlarge the present sketch of the heros adventures in Australia....
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The Black RobeThe Black Robe When the medical advisers of a lady who has reached seventy years of age recommend the mild climate of the South of France, they mean in plain language that they have arrived at the end of their resources. Her ladyship gave...
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Boswell's Life of JohnsonBoswell's Life of Johnson - Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Phillips Brooks once told the boys at Exeter that in reading biography three men meet one another in close intimacythe subject of the biography, the author, and the reader....
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The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and FireThe San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire Earthquake and famine, fire and sudden deaththese are the destroyers that men fear when they come singly; but upon the unhappy people of California they came together, a hideous quartette, to slay human beings, to blot...
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A Distinguished Provincial at ParisA Distinguished Provincial at Paris A Distinguished Provincial at Paris is part two of a trilogy. Part one, Two Poets, begins the story of Lucien, his sister Eve, and his friend David in the provincial town of Angouleme. Part two is centered on Luciens...
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The Fall of the Moghul Empire of HindustanThe Fall of the Moghul Empire of HindustanTwo editions of this book having been absorbed, it has been thought that the time was come for its reproduction in a form more adapted to the use of students. Opportunity has been taken to introduce considerable...
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