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ThelmaThelma Midnight,without darkness, without stars! Midnightand the unwearied sun stood, yet visible in the heavens, like a victorious king throned on a dais of royal purple bordered with gold. The sky above him,his canopy,gleamed with a cold yet lustrous blue, while across it slowly...
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BalzacBalzac The condition of French society in the early half of the nineteenth centurythe period covered by Balzac's novelsmay be compared to that of a people endeavouring to recover themselves after an earthquake. Everything had been overthrown, or at least loosened from its basereligion,...
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The Roman and the TeutonThe Roman and the Teuton - A Series of Lectures delivered before the University of CambridgeIf I have followed in these lectures the better known and more widely received etymology of the name Goth, I have done so out of no disrespect to Dr....
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Nathan the Wise a dramatic poem in five actsNathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five actsGotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on the 22nd of January, 1729, eldest of ten sons of a pious and learned minister of Camenz in the Oberlausitz, who had two daughters also. As a child Lessing delighted...
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The Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in AustraliaThe Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia No introduction to Mrs. Langloh Parker's book can be more than that superfluous 'bush' which, according to the proverb, good wine does not need. Our knowledge of the life, manners, and customary laws of...
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By Reef and PalmBy Reef and Palm When in October, 1870, I sailed into the harbour of Apia, Samoa, in the ill-fated ALBATROSS, Mr Louis Becke was gaining his first experiences of island life as a trader on his own account by running a cutter between Apia...
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To LetTo Let Soames Forsyte emerged from the Knightsbridge Hotel, where he was staying, in the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1920, with the intention of visiting a collection of pictures in a Gallery off Cork Street, and looking into the Future. He walked....
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The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic TaleThe Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale A great multitude of people filled the church, crowded together in the old black pews, standing closely thronged in the nave and aisles, pressing shoulder to shoulder even in the two chapels on the right and left...
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Rolling StonesRolling Stones O. Henry, Afrite-Chef of all delight Of all delectables conglomerate That stay the starved brain and rejuvenate The Mental Man! The sthetic appetite So long enhungered that the inards fight And growl gutwiseits pangs thou dost abate And all so amiably alleviate,...
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Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Stevenson The publishers desire to announce that it is their purpose to comprise in this series a collection of little books uniform in general style and appearance to the present volume and having for their subjects men and women, whose work and...
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The Lady of BlossholmeThe Lady of Blossholme Who that has ever seen them can forget the ruins of Blossholme Abbey, set upon their mount between the great waters of the tidal estuary to the north, the rich lands and grazing marshes that, backed with woods, border it...
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The Mirrors of WashingtonThe Mirrors of Washington President of the United States; b. Corsica, Morrow Co., O., Nov. 2, 1865; Educ. student of Ohio Central Coll. (now defunct), Iberia, 1879-82; engaged in newspaper business at Marion, O., since 1884; pres. Harding Pub. Co., pubs. Star (daily); mem....
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The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High TideThe Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide "The Star of Gettysburg" is a complete romance, but it is also one of the series dealing with the Civil War, beginning with "The Guns of Bull Run," and continued successively through "The Guns...
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African AdventuresThe Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures It is with feelings of the greatest diffidence that I place the following pages before the public; but those of my friends who happen to have heard of my rather unique experiences in the wilds...
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The Master of the WorldThe Master of the World If I speak of myself in this story, it is because I have been deeply involved in its startling events, events doubtless among the most extraordinary which this twentieth century will witness. Sometimes I even ask myself if all...
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Robur the ConquerorRobur the Conqueror Who were these two gentlemen? We do not know, although this would be an excellent opportunity to hand down their names to posterity. All we can say is that the elder was an Englishman and the younger an American, and both...
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The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same SpeciesThe Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species The subject of the present volume, namely the differently formed flowers normally produced by certain kinds of plants, either on the same stock or on distinct stocks, ought to have been treated by...
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A Modern Cinderella Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other StoriesA Modern Cinderella; Or, The Little Old Shoe, and Other Stories Among green New England hills stood an ancient house, many-gabled, mossy-roofed, and quaintly built, but picturesque and pleasant to the eye; for a brook ran babbling through the orchard that encompassed it about,...
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The VulturesThe Vultures Mr. Joseph P. Mangles, at his ease in a deck-chair on the broad Atlantic, was smoking a most excellent cigar. Mr. Mangles was a tall, thin man, who carried his head in the manner curtly known at a girls' school as poking....
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Pierre and JeanPierre and Jean Tschah! exclaimed old Roland suddenly, after he had remained motionless for a quarter of an hour, his eyes fixed on the water, while now and again he very slightly lifted his line sunk in the sea. I beg your pardon, Mme....
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