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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 2 (of 2)The cover of this book was created by the transcriber (using a blank cover and the title page) and is placed in the public domain. A more extensive transcribers note can be found at...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2)The cover of this book was created by the transcriber (using a blank cover and the title page) and is placed in the public domain. A more extensive transcribers note can be found at...

The Forest Farm: Tales of the Austrian TyrolThe unmistakable trend of our time is the civilisationwhich, in its modern form, is largely urbanisationof the whole habitable globe. From its centres outwards it is thrusting itself upon places, men, processesultimate sanctuaries, never before reached by...

The Catacombs of Rome, and Their Testimony Relative to Primitive ChristianityThis text includes characters that require UTF-8 (Unicode) file encoding: (oe ligature), or (Greek), and (Hebrew). If any of these characters do not display properly--in particular, if the diacritic does not appear directly above...

Oliver Twist, Vol. 3 (of 3)It was a dull, close, overcast summer evening, when the clouds, which had been threatening all day, spread out in a dense and sluggish mass of vapour, already yielded large drops of rain, and seemed to presage a violent...

Oliver Twist, Vol. 2 (of 3)When Oliver awoke in the morning he was a good deal surprised to find that a new pair of shoes with strong thick soles had been placed at his bedside, and that his old ones had been removed. At...

Oliver Twist, Vol. 1 (of 3)Among other public buildings in a certain town which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, it boasts of one which is common to most towns,...

A Satire Anthology[46] [48] [50] OR A PROPER NEW BALLAD OF THE NEW OVIDS METAMORPHOSES, AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSLATED BY PERSONS OF QUALITY [65] [72] [74] [77] [78] [80] [84] [85] [86] FRIEND OF HUMANITY [97] [105] [108] [114] [119] [123]...

Lillian Morris, and Other StoriesDURING my stay in California I went with my worthy and gallant friend, Captain R., to visit Y., a compatriot of ours who was living in the secluded mountains of Santa Lucia. Not finding him at home, we passed five...

Precious Memories - Sixteenth Book of the Faith Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day SaintsThe assurances received of the beneficial effects of the earlier volumes of the Faith-Promoting Series encourage the hope and belief that the present volume may...

Aunt Crete's EmancipationLucretia was short and dumpy, with the comfortable, patient look of the maiden aunt that knows she is indispensable because she will meekly take all the burdens that no one else wants to bear. Her sister could easily look over her head...

Elsket and Other StoriesI spent a month of the summer of 188- in Norway"Old Norway"and a friend of mine, Dr. John Robson, who is as great a fisherman as he is a physician, and knows that I love a stream where the trout and...

The Bishop's Apron: A study in the origins of a great familyTHE world takes people very willingly at the estimate in which they hold themselves. With a fashionable bias for expression in a foreign tongue it calls modesty mauvaise honte; and the impudent are...

Légendes démocratiques du NordLa France offre la Pologne, en gage dune amiti plus forte que le destin, le portrait religieusement fidle dun homme cher toutes deux, dun des hommes les meilleurs qui aient honor la nature humaine. Cest le dernier des chevaliers,cest le premier...

Life and Times of Her Majesty Caroline Matilda, Vol. 1 (of 3) - Queen of Denmark and Norway, and Sister of H. M. George III. of England If there be a story which may be supposed to be thoroughly familiar to the reading public,...

Our Pilgrim Forefathers: Thanksgiving StudiesYou also know that once in every four years we have an election day, when papa votes for the man whom he thinks best for President. Then the one who gets the most votes becomes our President for four years....

President Heber C. Kimball's Journal - Seventh Book of the Faith-Promoting Series. Designed for the Instruction and Encouragement of Young Latter-day SaintsNo apology is necessary for publishing as a volume of the "FAITH-PROMOTING SERIES" some portion of the history of the late President Heber...

Shakespeare's Comedy of The TempestBoats. None that I more love than myself. You are a counsellor; if you can command these elements to silence, and work the peace of the present, we will not hand a rope more; use your authority: if you cannot,...

Desiderius Erasmus of RotterdamThe student of Erasmus is at first overwhelmed by the abundance of the material before him. A man who has left to posterity enough to fill eleven folio volumes would seem to have made a biographer unnecessary. Especially when two of...

Haukansilmä "On tuoksuva turve majani mun, ja luonto, Luojani, templisi sun; tll' ilmasto vuoriston suitsuja luo ja aatoksen' netn kiitosta tuo". Harvoina hetkin voi ihminen tydellisesti tajuta luonnon suuruutta. Tuskin koskaan voi nuorukainen ksitt ensimmisill matkoillaan valtameren mahtavuutta kaikissa vivahteissa; mutta yn pimeydesskin mielikuvitus...