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Some Rambling Notes of an Idle ExcursionSome Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion All the journeyings I had ever done had been purely in the way of business. The pleasant May weather suggested a novelty namely, a trip for pure recreation, the bread-and-butter element left out. The Reverend said he...
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The Stolen White ElephantThe Stolen White Elephant The following curious history was related to me by a chance railway acquaintance. He was a gentleman more than seventy years of age, and his thoroughly good and gentle face and earnest and sincere manner imprinted the unmistakable stamp of...
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A Double Barrelled Detective StoryA Double Barrelled Detective Story The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girla case of love at first sight and a precipitate...
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The American ClaimantThe American Claimant CHAPTER III. Mrs. Sellers pronounces the colonel the same old scheming, generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure he always wasHe takes in Danl and JinnyThe colonel originates Pigs in the CloverHe offers one of his art treasures to propitiate SuggsOne-armed Pete;...
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The Gilded Age: A Tale of TodayThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today CHAPTER I. Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee LandHe Decides to Remove to Missouri CHAPTER II. He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay CHAPTER III Uncle Daniels Apparition and PrayeR CHAPTER IV The Steamboat Explosion CHAPTER V...
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Roughing ItRoughing It This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than...
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The Innocents AbroadThe Innocents Abroad This book is a record of a pleasure trip. If it were a record of a solemn scientific expedition, it would have about it that gravity, that profundity, and that impressive incomprehensibility which are so proper to works of that kind,...
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Mark Twain's Burlesque AutobiographyMark Twain's Burlesque Autobiography Two or three persons having at different times intimated that if I would write an autobiography they would read it, when they got leisure, I yield at last to this frenzied public demand, and herewith tender my history: Ours is...
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A Dog's TaleA Dog's Tale My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing....
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Essays on Paul BourgetEssays on Paul Bourget He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who were his parents? And when an alien observer turns his telescope upon usadvertisedly in...
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Fenimore Cooper's Literary OffencesFenimore Cooper's Literary Offences It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collins to deliver opinions on Cooper's literature without having read some of it....
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In Defense Of Harriet ShelleyIn Defence of Harriet Shelley I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living...
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Chants for SocialistsChants for Socialistsp. 2I have looked at this claim by the light of history and my own conscience, and it seems to me so looked at to be a most just claim, and that resistance to it means nothing short of a denial of...
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The Pursuit of the House-BoatThe Pursuit of the House-BoatThe House-boat of the Associated Shades, formerly located upon the River Styx, as the reader may possibly remember, had been torn from its moorings and navigated out into unknown seas by that vengeful pirate Captain Kidd, aided and abetted by...
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Poems of the Past and the PresentPoems of the Past and the PresentMoments the mightiest pass uncalendared, And when the Absolute In backward Time outgave the deedful word Whereby all life is stirred: Let one be born and throned whose mould shall constitute The norm of every royal-reckoned attribute, No...
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Wessex Poems and Other VersesWessex Poems and Other VersesOf the miscellaneous collection of verse that follows, only four pieces have been published, though many were written long ago, and other partly written. In some few cases the verses were turned into prose and printed as such, it having...
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Doctor ThorneDoctor ThorneBefore the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the...
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RashiRashiThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the texts. As...
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Women in the Life of BalzacWomen in the Life of BalzacThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally...
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Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other PapersBirds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers It is seldom that I find a book so far above children that I cannot share its best thought with them. So when I first took up one of John Burroughs's essays, I at once foresaw...
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