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Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord SavileIl fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile Non rifar la biografia d'Oscar Wilde, ormai cosa pubblica, ahim, troppo pubblica. Pi che per la grandezza e la decadenza della sua vita, pi che per la stessa sua opera, Wilde interessa sopratutto per...
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The Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth DraperThe Journal to Eliza and Various letters by Laurence Sterne and Elizabeth DraperSTERNE married Miss Lumley of York. He afterwards held sentimental converse with Miss Fourmantelle, Lady Percy, My witty widow Mrs. F, &c., &c. But his one passion was for the Eliza to...
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The Greatest Plague of Life: or, the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good ServantThe Greatest Plague of Life: or, the Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant.What heartfelt joy it imparts to find a gentleman willing to lend a helping hand to the ideas of the good, and assist a virtuous female in distress....
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El OmbúEl OmbúWho has lived with and knows (even to the marrow as they would themselves say) the horsemen of the Pampas, and who alone of European writers has rendered something of the vanishing colour of that remote life. The two short stories included in...
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Scenes and PortraitsScenes and PortraitsIt is a necessity of the human mind to give everything a name, thus recognising a difference between one thing and another, and recording it. Science, which is the highest development of this necessity, recognises, and records systematically, all the facts of...
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BattlewrackBattlewrackThe sun hung in the mists of morning, swollen, blood-red, a symbol of augury, as the artillery brigade pulled out of the village where it had been billeted for the night. At the tail of its long line of slowly moving vehicles marched a...
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Mr. Justice MaxellMr. Justice MaxellIT was two hours after the muezzin had called to evening prayer, and night had canopied Tangier with a million stars. In the little Sok, the bread-sellers sat cross-legged behind their wares, their candles burning steadily, for there was not so much...
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The Owls' HouseThe Owls' HouseIt was late evening when John Penhale left the Helston lawyers office. A fine drizzle was blowing down Coinage Hall Street; thin beams of light pierced the chinks of house shutters and curtains, barred the blue dusk with misty orange rays, touched...
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The Dinner ClubThe Dinner ClubOn a certain day in the year of grace 1920, there came into being a special and very select club. There was no entrance fee and no subscription, in which respect it differed from all other clubs. Its membership was limited to...
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Henry Esmondin historia: Hänen itsensä kertomanaHenry Esmondin historia: Hänen itsensä kertomanaI. Selostus Esmondin perheest Castlewoodin linnassa. II. Kuvaus siit miten Francis, neljs varakreivi, saapuu Castlewoodiin. III. Thomas, kolmas varakreivi, oli vienyt minut sinne paashiksi Isabellalle. IV. Minut pannaan roomalaiskatolisen papin kasvatettavaksi ja kasvatetaan siihen uskoon. Varakreivitr Castlewood. V. Haltiavkeni...
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VersesVersesBy Joyce Kilmer Far from the poets being astray in prose-writing (said Francis Thompson) it might plausibly be contended that English prose, as an art, is but a secondary stream of the Pierian fount, and owes its very origin to the poets. The first...
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Antic HayAntic HayGumbril, Theodore Gumbril Junior, B.A. Oxon., sat in his oaken stall on the north side of the School Chapel and wondered, as he listened through the uneasy silence of half a thousand schoolboys to the First Lesson, pondered, as he looked up at...
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Steve Brown's Bunyip, and Other StoriesSteve Brown's Bunyip, and Other StoriesRudyard Kipling. STEVE BROWNS BUNYIP. The general opinion of those who felt called upon to give it was that Steve Brown, of the Scrubby Corner, wasnt any chop. Not that, on the surface, there seemed much evidence confirmatory of...
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Lady Patricia: A comedy in three actsLady Patricia: A comedy in three actsMr. Besier is a man who can see and think for himself, and constructs as setting for the result of that activity a form of his own. The construction of Don is as daring as it is original.Mr....
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Choyce Drollery: Songs and SonnetsChoyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets - Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.Having found that sixty-five of our previous pages, in the second volume of the Drolleries Reprint, were filled with songs and poems that also appear in...
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Off Sandy Hook, and other storiesOff Sandy Hook, and other storiesOn board the Rampatina liner, eleven days and a half out from Liverpool, the usual terrific sensation created by the appearance of the pilot-yacht prevailed. Necks were craned and toes were trodden on as the steamer slackened speed, and...
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William BlakeWilliam Blake PREFACE PART I INTRODUCTION WILLIAM BLAKE PART II - RECORDS FROM CONTEMPORARY SOURCES (I.) EXTRACTS FROM THE DIARY, LETTERS, AND REMINISCENCES OF HENRY CRABB ROBINSON, TRANSCRIBED FROM THE ORIGINAL MSS. IN DR. WILLIAMS'S LIBRARY (1810-1852) (1) FROM CRABB ROBINSON'S DIARY (2) FROM...
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Letters of John Keats to Fanny BrawneLetters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne - Written in the years MDCCCXIX and MDCCCXX and now given from the original manuscriptsThe sympathetic and discerning biographer of John Keats says, in the memoir prefixed to Moxons edition of the Poems[1], The publication of three...
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The Viking's SkullThe Viking's SkullOn one of the granitic peninsulas of Western Brittany stands the little town of Quilaix, situated in a hollow facing the sea. To the ordinary tourist the place presents few features of interest beyond its ivy-mantled church, whose doors bear the counterfeit...
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Spring MorningSpring Morning Squirrels skipping up the trees Smell how Spring is in the breeze, While the birds, they flute and sing: Build your nests, for here is Spring. My father's friend came once to tea. He laughed and talked. He spoke to me. But...
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