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Life on the Mississippi, Part 5Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.CHAPTER XXII. I try the Alias Business.Region of GoateesBoots begin to Appear. The River Man is Missing.The Young Man is Discouraged. Specimen Water.A Fine Quality of Smoke.A Supreme Mistake. We Inspect the Town.Desolation Way-traffic.A Wood-yard. IN due course I...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 4Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.IT was always the custom for the boats to leave New Orleans between four and five o'clock in the afternoon. From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 3Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.DURING this big rise these small-fry craft were an intolerable nuisance. We were running chute after chute,a new world to me,and if there was a particularly cramped place in a chute, we would be pretty sure to meet a...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 2Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.WHAT with lying on the rocks four days at Louisville, and some other delays, the poor old 'Paul Jones' fooled away about two weeks in making the voyage from Cincinnati to New Orleans. This gave me a chance to...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 1Life on the Mississippi, Part 1.CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.It is Remarkable. Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.It was First Seen in 1542. It is Older than some...
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HungerHunger This PG edition is based upon the eighth printing, published in September 1921 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. This edition is a bowdlerised version of the original 1899 translation, also by George Egerton. Since the death of Ibsen and Strindberg, Hamsun is undoubtedly...
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Early Letters of George William Curtis to John S. Dwight Brook Farm and ConcordEarly Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm and ConcordGeorge William Curtis was born in Providence, February 24, 1824. From the age of six to eleven he was in the school of C.W. Greene at Jamaica Plain, and then, until...
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Henry Fielding: a MemoirHenry Fielding: a Memoir - Including Newly Discovered Letters and Records with Illustrations from Contemporary PrintsNew material alone could justify any attempt to supplement the Fielding of Mr Austin Dobson. Such material has now come to light, and together with reliable facts collected by...
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Personal RecollectionsPersonal Recollections - Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great BritainI have given my best consideration to the arguments by which you support the demand for a few notices of events connected with my personal...
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Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. Brook Farm, Oak Hill, April 13th, 1841.. . . . Here I am in a polar Paradise! I know not how to interpret this aspect of nature,whether it be of good or evil omen to our enterprise....
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Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 1 Salem, June 15, 1835.A walk down to the Juniper. The shore of the coves strewn with bunches of sea-weed, driven in by recent winds. Eel-grass, rolled and bundled up, and entangled with it,large marine vegetables, of an...
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Oliver Goldsmith: A BiographyOliver Goldsmith: A Biography In the course of a revised edition of my works I have come to a biographical sketch of Goldsmith, published several years since. It was written hastily, as introductory to a selection from his writings; and, though the facts contained...
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A Traveller in Little ThingsA Traveller in Little ThingsIt is surely a rare experience for an unclassified man, past middle age, to hear himself accurately and aptly described for the first time in his life by a perfect stranger! This thing happened to me at Bristol, some time...
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The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow") The matter which is given to the public in this book will speak with a voice of its own; it is necessary, however, to say a few words in advance to inform the...
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Autobiographic SketchesAutobiographic SketchesThe miscellaneous writings which I propose to lay before the public in this body of selections are in part to be regarded as a republication of papers scattered through several British journals twenty or thirty years ago, which papers have been reprinted in...
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RückblickeRückblickeKapitel 1 Frhes Panorama und Vorgeschichte Kapitel 2 Die Familie und Kattowitz Kapitel 3 Kindheit und frhe Jugend Kapitel 4 Kattowitz kommt zu Polen Kapitel 5 Als Student in der Weimarer Republik A) Berlin a) Leben und Studium b) und politische Bettigung B) Mnchen...
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The True Story of My Life: A SketchThe True Story of My Life: A Sketch No literary labor is more delightful to me than translating the beautiful thoughts and fancies of Hans Christian Andersen. My heart is in the work, and I feel as if my spirit were kindred to his;...
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Mark TwainMark Twain There are to-day, all over the world, men and women and children who owe a debt of almost personal gratitude to Mark Twain for the joy of his humour and the charm of his personality. In the future they will, I doubt...
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Mrs. ShelleyMrs. ShelleyI have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and mannot last nor least among whom is my husbandfor their loving and truthful research on all the subjects surrounding the life of Mrs. Shelley. Every aspect has been presented, and...
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Life of Harriet Beecher StoweLife of Harriet Beecher Stowe - Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward StoweAt my suggestion and with what assistance I have been able to render, my son, Ross Charles Edward Stowe, has compiled from my letters and journals, this...
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