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The Elixir of LifeThe Elixir of Life At the very outset of the writer's literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject of this Study. Later on he found the same story in a collection published about the beginning of the present century. To...
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The Street of Seven StarsThe Street of Seven Stars The old stucco house sat back in a garden, or what must once have been a garden, when that part of the Austrian city had been a royal game preserve. Tradition had it that the Empress Maria Theresa had...
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The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgThe Man That Corrupted HadleyburgIt was many years ago. Hadleyburg was the most honest and upright town in all the region round about. It had kept that reputation unsmirched during three generations, and was prouder of it than of any other of its possessions....
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Love and FriendshipLove and Freindship [sic] How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have you said No, my freind never will I comply with your request till I...
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A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert HerrickA Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick ROBERT HERRICK - Born 1591 : Died 1674 Those who most admire the Poet from whose many pieces a selection only is here offered, will, it is probable, feel most strongly (with the Editor) that...
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange ThingsKwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things The publication of a new volume of Lafcadio Hearns exquisite studies of Japan happens, by a delicate irony, to fall in the very month when the world is waiting with tense expectation for news of the latest...
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History of the Conquest of PeruHistory of the Conquest of PeruThe most brilliant passages in the history of Spanish adventure in the New World are undoubtedly afforded by the conquests of Mexico and Peruthe two states which combined with the largest extent of empire a refined social polity, and...
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South Sea TalesSouth Sea Tales Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the...
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Nada the LilyNada the Lily Some years sinceit was during the winter before the Zulu Wara White Man was travelling through Natal. His name does not matter, for he plays no part in this story. With him were two wagons laden with goods, which he was...
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The Flying U RanchThe Flying U Ranch The Happy Family, waiting for the Sunday supper call, were grouped around the open door of the bunk-house, gossiping idly of things purely local, when the Old Man returned from the Stock Association at Helena; beside him on the buggy...
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The Colour of LifeThe Colour of LifeRed has been praised for its nobility as the colour of life. But the true colour of life is not red. Red is the colour of violence, or of life broken open, edited, and published. Or if red is indeed the...
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Cabin FeverCabin Fever CABIN FEVER CHAPTER ONE. THE FEVER MANIFESTS ITSELF CHAPTER TWO. TWO MAKE A QUARREL CHAPTER THREE. TEN DOLLARS AND A JOB FOR BUD CHAPTER FOUR. HEAD SOUTH AND KEEP GOING CHAPTER FIVE. BUD CANNOT PERFORM MIRACLES CHAPTER SIX. BUD TAKES TO THE...
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Dolly DialoguesDolly Dialogues She pointed to a young man who had just passed where we sat. He was dressed very smartly, and was walking with a lady attired in the height of the fashion. I made that man, said Dolly, and now he cuts me...
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Tales of UnrestTales of Unrest Of the five stories in this volume, The Lagoon, the last in order, is the earliest in date. It is the first short story I ever wrote and marks, in a manner of speaking, the end of my first phase, the...
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An Essay on the Trial By JuryAn Essay on the Trial By JuryPlease 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 about...
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Gargantua and PantagruelGargantua and Pantagruel Reader,I dont know what kind of a preface I must write to find thee courteous, an epithet too often bestowed without a cause. The author of this work has been as sparing of what we call good nature, as most readers...
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An Anthology of Australian VerseAn Anthology of Australian VersePlease 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 about two million...
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Robbery under ArmsRobbery under Arms - A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Australian Goldfields I dedicate this 'ower true tale' of the wilder aspects of Australian life to my old comrade R. Murray Smith, late Agent-General in London for the...
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Taras Bulba, and Other TalesTaras Bulba, and Other Tales Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol (1809-1852), who has done for the Russian novel and Russian prose what Pushkin has done for Russian poetry. Before these two men came Russian...
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The PurseThe Purse For souls to whom effusiveness is easy there is a delicious hour that falls when it is not yet night, but is no longer day; the twilight gleam throws softened lights or tricksy reflections on every object, and favors a dreamy mood...
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