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The Brotherhood of ConsolationThe Brotherhood of Consolation On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to...
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The Path of the KingThe Path of the King The three of us in that winter camp in the Selkirks were talking the slow aimless talk of wearied men. The Soldier, who had seen many campaigns, was riding his hobby of the Civil War and descanting on Lee's...
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Captain BloodCaptain Blood CHAPTER I. THE MESSENGER CHAPTER II. KIRKE'S DRAGOONS CHAPTER III. THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE CHAPTER IV. HUMAN MERCHANDISE CHAPTER V. ARABELLA BISHOP CHAPTER VI. PLANS OF ESCAPE CHAPTER VII. PIRATES CHAPTER VIII. SPANIARDS CHAPTER IX. THE REBELS-CONVICT CHAPTER X. DON DIEGO CHAPTER...
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The ConfessionThe Confession I am not a susceptible woman. I am objective rather than subjective, and a fairly full experience of life has taught me that most of my impressions are from within out rather than the other way about. For instance, obsession at one...
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A Defence of Poesie and PoemsA Defence of Poesie and PoemsPhilip Sidney was born at Penshurst, in Kent, on the 29th of November, 1554. His father, Sir Henry Sidney, had married Mary, eldest daughter of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and Philip was the eldest of their family of...
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Books and BookmenBooks and BookmenThe essays in this volume have, for the most part, already appeared in an American edition (Combes, New York, 1886). The Essays on Old French Title-Pages and Lady Book-Lovers take the place of Book Binding and Bookmen at Rome; Elzevirs and Some...
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Sight UnseenSight Unseen The rather extraordinary story revealed by the experiments of the Neighborhood Club have been until now a matter only of private record. But it seems to me, as an active participant in the investigations, that they should be given to the public;...
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The Crown of Thorns: A Token for the SorrowingThe Crown of Thorns: A Token for the Sorrowing One of the discourses in this volume"The Mission of Little Children"was written just after the death of a dear son, and was published in pamphlet form. The edition having become exhausted sooner than the demand,...
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Hermann and DorotheaHermann and Dorothea There are few modern poems of any country so perfect in their kind as the "Hermann and Dorothea" of Goethe. In clearness of characterization, in unity of tone, in the adjustment of background and foreground, in the conduct of the narrative,...
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BeatrixBeatrix France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics. For lack of quick and regular communication with Paris, scarcely connected by wretched roads with the sub-prefecture, or the chief city...
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And Even NowAnd Even Now I offer here some of the essays that I have written in the course of the past ten years. While I was collecting them and (quite patiently) reading them again, I found that a few of them were in direct reference...
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The Darrow EnigmaThe Darrow Enigma As the part I played in the events I am about to narrate was rather that of a passive observer than of an active participant, I need say little of myself. I am a graduate of a Western university and, by...
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Colonel ChabertColonel Chabert This exclamation was made by a lawyers clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumpera messenger in factwho at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to...
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A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old SoulA Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Title: A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul Author: George MacDonald Release Date: November 1, 1999 [EBook #1953] Language: English Credits: Produced by...
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The Yellow WallpaperThe Yellow Wallpaper John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. John is a physician,...
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The Coming RaceThe Coming Race I am a native of _____, in the United States of America. My ancestors migrated from England in the reign of Charles II.; and my grandfather was not undistinguished in the War of Independence. My family, therefore, enjoyed a somewhat high...
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A Woman of ThirtyA Woman of Thirty It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead....
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On the Ruin of BritainOn the Ruin of Britain1. Whatever in this my epistle I may write in my humble but well meaning manner, rather by way of lamentation than for display, let no one suppose that it springs from contempt of others or that I foolishly esteem...
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The Story of a Bad BoyThe Story of a Bad Boy Chapter One In Which I Introduce Myself Chapter TwoIn Which I Entertain Peculiar Views Chapter ThreeOn Board the Typhoon Chapter FourRivermouth Chapter FiveThe Nutter House and the Nutter Family Chapter SixLights and Shadows Chapter SevenOne Memorable Night Chapter...
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Scaramouche: A Romance of the French RevolutionScaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution SCARAMOUCHE BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC CHAPTER VI. THE WINDMILL CHAPTER VII. THE WIND...
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