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The House of Cobwebs and Other StoriesThe House of Cobwebs and Other Stories 'Les gens tout fait heureux, forts et bien portants, sont-ils prpars comme il faut pour comprendre, pntrer, exprimer la vie, notre vie si tourmente et si courte?' In England during the sixties and seventies of last century...
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Withered Leaves from Memory's GarlandWithered Leaves from Memory's GarlandThese pages were not written for public inspection; but to beguile the weary hours of indisposition, and present a record of thoughts and sentiments to the eyes of my children, after my lips are sealed in death. By the recommendation...
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The Purchase Price Or, The Cause of CompromiseThe Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of CompromiseWith just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from...
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Les Voyages extraordinaires Couronnés par l'Académie françaiseLe Docteur OxCe nouveau volume de Jules Verne est compos de nouvelles crites par lui des poques trs-diffrentes les unes des autres. Le docteur Ox est de date presque rcente, et a t inspir l'auteur des Voyages extraordinaires par une exprience trs-intressante faite Paris,...
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MadcapMadcapTitine glanced at the parted curtains and empty bed, then at the clock, and yawned. It was not yet eight o'clock. From the look of things, she was sure that Miss Challoner had arisen and departed for a morning ride before the breaking of...
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From out the Vasty DeepFrom out the Vasty DeepThe words were said in a good-natured, though slightly vexed tone; and a curious kind of smile flitted over the rather grim face of the person to whom they were addressed. Miss Farrow looked up from the very comfortable armchair...
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The Crater Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the PacificThe Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the PacificThe reader of this book will very naturally be disposed to ask the question, why the geographies, histories, and other works of a similar character, have never made any mention of the regions and events...
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The Man from Brodney'sThe Man from Brodney'sHe attained the end of a hale old age by tumbling aimlessly into the mouth of a crater on the island of Japat, somewhere in the mysterious South Seas. The volcano was not a large one and the crater, though somewhat...
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People of the WhirlpoolPeople of the Whirlpool - From The Experience Book of a Commuter's WifeFebruary 2. Candlemas and mild, gray weather. If the woodchuck stirs up his banked life-fire and ventures forth, he will not see his shadow, and must straightway arrange with winter for a...
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Facing the FlagFacing the Flag[Redactors Note: Facing the Flag {number V044 in the T&M listing of Vernes works} is an anonymous translation of Face au drapeau (1896) first published in the U.S. by F. Tennyson Neely in 1897, and later (circa 1903) republished from the same...
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A Kentucky Cardinal: A StoryA Kentucky Cardinal: A StoryAll this New-year's Day of 1850 the sun shone cloudless but wrought no thaw. Even the landscapes of frost on the window-panes did not melt a flower, and the little trees still keep their silvery boughs arched high above the...
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The Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old WestThe Lions of the Lord: A Tale of the Old West In the days of 49 seven trails led from our Western frontier into the Wonderland that lay far out under the setting sun and called to the restless. Each of the seven had...
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La EspumaLa Espuma - Obras completas de D. Armando Palacio Valdés, Tomo 7.A las tres de la tarde el sol enfilaba todava sus rayos por la calle de Serrano bandola casi toda de viva y rojiza luz, que hera la vista de los que bajaban...
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The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — FictionThe World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction The novels of Thomas Love Peacock still find admirers among cultured readers, but his extravagant satire and a certain bookish awkwardness will never appeal to the great novel-reading public. The son of a London glass...
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The Obstacle RaceThe Obstacle Race The Obstacle Race By Ethel M. Dell 1921 Give me the ready brain and steadfast face To dare the hazard and to run the race, The high heart that no scathing word can stay O'erleaping obstacles that bar the way, The...
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A Beleaguered CityA Beleaguered City - Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen THE AUTHOR inscribes this little Book, with tender and grateful greetings, to those...
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On Land and Sea at the DardanellesOn Land and Sea at the Dardanelles'Fun!' said Ken Carrington, as he leaned over the rail of the transport, 'Cardigan Castle,' and watched the phosphorescent waters of the Aegean foaming white through the darkness against her tall side. 'Fun!' he repeated rather grimly. 'You...
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Balcony StoriesBalcony StoriesThere is much of life passed on the balcony in a country where the summer unrolls in six moon-lengths, and where the nights have to come with a double endowment of vastness and splendor to compensate for the tedious, sun-parched days. And in...
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Robinsono KrusoRobinsono KrusoThe telegraph and telephone have made of the world a whispering gallery. Steam and electric traction have annihilated space. The scattered human race yet remains a strangely misunderstood family. Within one hour the report of a momentous event may be shot through 500...
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Keeping up with LizzieKeeping up with LizzieThe Honorable Socrates Potter was the only "scientific man" in the village of Pointview, Connecticut. In every point of manhood he was far ahead of his neighbors. In a way he had outstripped himself, for, while his ideas were highly modern,...
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