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Le Monde comme il va, vision de BaboucLongchamp, secrtaire de Voltaire de 1746 1754, dit dans ses Mmoires[*] que Babouc, ou le Monde comme il va, fut compos en 1746, pendant la retraite de Voltaire Sceaux ; et je n'ai rien trouv qui contredise...

Henrietta's Wish; Or, Domineering On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the...

The American SenatorI never could understand why anybody should ever have begun to live at Dillsborough, or why the population there should have been at any time recruited by new comers. That a man with a family should cling to a house in which...

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert LettersThis translation of the correspondence between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert was undertaken in consequence of a suggestion by Professor Stuart P. Sherman. The translator desires to acknowledge valuable criticism given by Professor Sherman, Ruth M. Sherman, and Professor Kenneth...

Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, PopeWhen, at the age of sixty-eight, Johnson was writing these Lives of the English Poets, he had caused omissions to be made from the poems of Rochester, and was asked whether he would allow the...

Lives of the English Poets : Waller, Milton, CowleySamuel Johnson, born at Lichfield in the year 1709, on the 7th of September Old Style, 18th New Style, was sixty-eight years old when he agreed with the booksellers to write his Lives of the English...

Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heaths here for the holidays. After all the rest, she has had the measles last and worst, and they dont know what to do with her, for she...

The Poisoned PenKennedy'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. "Come, Walter," he...

Harriet and the Piper Richard Carter had called the place "Crownlands," not to please himself, or even his wife. But it was to his mother's newly born family pride that the idea of being the Carters of Crownlands made its appeal. The estate, when...

Scenes and Characters, or, Eighteen Months at BeechcroftPerhaps this book is an instance to be adduced in support of the advice I have often given to young authorsnot to print before they themselves are old enough to do justice to their freshest ideas. Not...

L'Escalier d'Or _Acceptez la ddicace de ce petit ouvrage, non seulement comme un gage de mon admiration pour l'artiste et le critique qui nous devons tant de belles pages, mais aussi de mon affection pour l'ami qui m'accueillait, avec tant de cordiale sympathie, il...

Paste JewelsIt may interest the readers of this collection of tales, if there should be any such, to know that the incidents upon which the stories are based are unfortunately wholly truthful. They have one and all come under the authors observation during the...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4For easier searching, letters have been numbered. Only the page numbers that appear in the table of contents have been retained in the text of letters. Footnotes have been regrouped as endnotes following the...

The Lucky ManThis Etext is for private use only. No republication for profit in print or other media may be made without the express consent of the Copyright Holder. The Copyright Holder is especially concerned about performance rights in any media on stage, cinema,...

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 1759-1769. Contents Of Vol. III. 1759. 1760. ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 4773 Author: Walpole, Horace Release Date: Dec 1, 2003 Format: eBook Language: English

Jeannot et ColinPlusieurs personnes dignes de foi ont vu Jeannot et Colin l'cole dans la ville d'Issoire, en Auvergne, ville fameuse dans tout l'univers par son collge et par ses chaudrons. Jeannot tait fils d'un marchand de mulets trs renomm; Colin devait le jour...

Le Blanc et le NoirTout le monde dans la province de Candahar connat l'aventure du jeune Rustan. Il tait fils unique d'un mirza du pays; c'est comme qui dirait marquis parmi nous, ou baron chez les Allemands. Le mirza, son pre, avait un bien...

The ForfeitureThis Etext is for private use only. No republication for profit in print or other media may be made without the express consent of the Copyright Holder. The Copyright Holder is especially concerned about performance rights in any media on stage, cinema, or...

The Spirit of ContradictionThis Etext is for private use only. No republication for profit in print or other media may be made without the express consent of the Copyright Holder. The Copyright Holder is especially concerned about performance rights in any media on stage,...

Fly LeavesTis the hour when white-horsed Day Chases Night her mares away; When the Gates of Dawn (they say) Phbus opes: And I gather that the Queen May be uniformly seen, Should the weather be serene, On the slopes. When the ploughman, as he...