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Washington IrvingWashington Irving EDITOR'S NOTE WASHINGTON IRVING I. PRELIMINARY II. BOYHOOD III. MANHOODFIRST VISIT TO EUROPE IV. SOCIETY AND SALMAGUNDI V. THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD VI. LIFE IN EUROPELITERARY ACTIVITY VII. IN SPAIN VIII. RETURN TO AMERICASUNNYSIDETHE MISSION TO MADRID IX. THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS X. LAST...
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The Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexesThe Chinese Classics: with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena and copious indexes - (Shih ching. English) — Volume 1In a few places I have substituted the character forms available in the Big 5 character set for rare or (what are now considered)...
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The Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and SailorsThe Old Merchant Marine: A Chronicle of American Ships and Sailors The story of American ships and sailors is an epic of blue water which seems singularly remote, almost unreal, to the later generations. A people with a native genius for seafaring won and...
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The Paths of Inland Commerce A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and WaterwayThe Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway If the great American novel is ever written, I hazard the guess that its plot will be woven around the theme of American transportation, for that has been the vital factor in...
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The Wanderer's NecklaceThe Wanderer's Necklace In memory of Oodnadatta and many wanderings oversea I offer these pictures from the past, my dear Vincent, to you, a lover of the present if an aspirant who can look upon the future with more of hope than fear. Your...
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BeatriceBeatrice Oh, kind is Death that Lifes long trouble closes, Yet at Deaths coming Life shrinks back affright; It sees the dark hand,not that it encloses A cup of light. So oft the Spirit seeing Love draw nigh As neath the shadow of destruction,...
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The Lady of the ShroudThe Lady of the ShroudA strange story comes from the Adriatic. It appears that on the night of the 9th, as the Italia Steamship Companys vessel Victorine was passing a little before midnight the point known as the Spear of Ivan, on the coast...
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Red EveRed Eve For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side by side, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a means whereby our coasts may be protected from the outrageous flowing surges of the sea (I quote the jurists of...
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Chronicles of America series v. 11The Eve of the Revolution; A Chronicle of the Breach with England In this brief sketch I have chiefly endeavored to convey to the reader, not a record of what men did, but a sense of how they thought and felt about what they...
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Chronicles of America series v. 10The Conquest of New France; A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars Title: The Conquest of New France A Chronicle of the Colonial Wars, Volume 10 In The Chronicles Of America Series Author: George M. Wrong Editor: Allen Johnson Release Date: January 23, 2009 [EBook...
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Eight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonEight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon P h y j s l y d d q f d z x g a s g z z q q e h x g k f n d r x u j u g I o...
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Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De MaupassantComplete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 13Original Short Stories — Volume 13 This entire stretch of country was amazing; it was characterized by a grandeur that was almost religious, and yet it had an air of sinister desolation. A great, wild lake, filled with stagnant, black water, in which thousands...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 12Original Short Stories — Volume 12 Lemonnier had remained a widower with one child. He had loved his wife devotedly, with a tender and exalted love, without a slip, during their entire married life. He was a good, honest man, perfectly simple, sincere, without...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 11Original Short Stories — Volume 11 Mme. Oreille was a very economical woman; she knew the value of a centime, and possessed a whole storehouse of strict principles with regard to the multiplication of money, so that her cook found the greatest difficulty in...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 10Original Short Stories — Volume 10 The old ship's surgeon, holding out his glass, watched it as it slowly filled with the golden liquid. Then, holding it in front of his eyes, he let the light from the lamp stream through it, smelled it,...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 09Original Short Stories — Volume 09 He was known for thirty miles round was father Toinefat Toine, Toine-my-extra, Antoine Macheble, nicknamed Burnt-Brandythe innkeeper of Tournevent. It was he who had made famous this hamlet buried in a niche in the valley that led down...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 08Original Short Stories — Volume 08 How strange those old recollections are which haunt us, without our being able to get rid of them. This one is so very old that I cannot understand how it has clung so vividly and tenaciously to my...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 07Original Short Stories — Volume 07 Monsieur Lantin had met the young girl at a reception at the house of the second head of his department, and had fallen head over heels in love with her. She was the daughter of a provincial tax...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 06Original Short Stories — Volume 06 The household lived frugally on the meager income derived from the husband's insignificant appointments. Two children had been born of the marriage, and the earlier condition of the strictest economy had become one of quiet, concealed, shamefaced misery,...
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