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The Mastery of the AirThe Mastery of the Air This book makes no pretence of going minutely into the technical and scientific sides of human flight: rather does it deal mainly with the real achievements of pioneers who have helped to make aviation what it is to-day. My...
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Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious ThinkersHermione and Her Little Group of Serious ThinkersPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce...
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When the Sleeper WakesWhen the Sleeper Wakes CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA CHAPTER II. THE TRANCE CHAPTER III. THE AWAKENING CHAPTER IV. THE SOUND OF A TUMULT CHAPTER V. THE MOVING WAYS CHAPTER VI. THE HALL OF THE ATLAS CHAPTER VII. IN THE SILENT ROOMS CHAPTER VIII. THE ROOF...
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Essays and LecturesEssays and LecturesWith the exception of the Poems in Prose this volume does not contain anything which the author ever contemplated reprinting. The Rise of Historical Criticism is interesting to admirers of his work, however, because it shows the development of his style and...
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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other StoriesLord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other StoriesIt was Lady Windermeres last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speakers Leve in their stars and ribands, all...
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Moral EmblemsMoral EmblemsIt is with some diffidence that I sit down at an age so mature that I cannot bring myself to name it, to write a preface to works I printed and published at twelve. I would have the reader see a little boy...
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Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous BellsBiographical Notes on the Pseudonymous BellsI have just read over Wuthering Heights, and, for the first time, have obtained a clear glimpse of what are termed (and, perhaps, really are) its faults; have gained a definite notion of how it appears to other peopleto...
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The Story of the Treasure SeekersThe Story of the Treasure Seekers - Being the Adventures of the Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune This is the story of the different ways we looked for treasure, and I think when you have read it you will see that we...
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The Book of TeaThe Book of Tea Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticismTeaism....
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Wuthering HeightsWuthering Heights 1801I have just returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed...
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Agnes GreyAgnes Grey All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with...
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David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield I REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading...
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The Moon PoolThe Moon Pool To end officially what is beginning to be called the Throckmartin Mystery and to kill the innuendo and scandalous suspicions which have threatened to stain the reputations of Dr. David Throckmartin, his youthful wife, and equally youthful associate Dr. Charles Stanton...
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Hans Brinker Or, The Silver SkatesHans Brinker; Or, The Silver Skates This little work aims to combine the instructive features of a book of travels with the interest of a domestic tale. Throughout its pages the descriptions of Dutch localities, customs, and general characteristics have been given with scrupulous...
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The Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona Novelized from Edmund Day's MelodramaThe Round-Up: A Romance of Arizona; Novelized from Edmund Day's Melodrama Down an old trail in the Ghost Range in northwestern Mexico, just across the Arizona border, a mounted prospector wound his way, his horse carefully picking its steps among the broken granite blocks...
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British Airships, Past, Present, and FutureBritish Airships, Past, Present, and Future Lighter-than-air craft consist of three distinct types: Airships, which are by far the most important, Free Balloons, and Kite Balloons, which are attached to the ground or to a ship by a cable. They derive their appellation from...
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A. V. LaiderA. V. LaiderIt was good to be here again in this little old sleepy hostel by the sea. Hostel I say, though it spelt itself without an "s" and even placed a circumflex above the "o." It made no other pretension. It was very...
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Enoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-NinetiesEnoch Soames: A Memory of the Eighteen-NinetiesWhen a book about the literature of the eighteen-nineties was given by Mr. Holbrook Jackson to the world, I looked eagerly in the index for Soames, Enoch. It was as I feared: he was not there. But everybody...
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James PethelJames PethelI was shocked this morning when I saw in my newspaper a paragraph announcing his sudden death. I do not say that the shock was very disagreeable. One reads a newspaper for the sake of news. Had I never met James Pethel, belike...
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Fifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little SenseFifty "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound and Little SenseThe Bab Ballads appeared originally in the columns of Fun, when that periodical was under the editorship of the late Tom Hood. They were subsequently republished in two volumes, one called The Bab Ballads, the other More...
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