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Poems and Tales from RomaniaPoems and Tales from RomaniaPlease 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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Round the SofaRound the Sofa Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a reputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I was sent with my governess...
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Eugene PickeringEugene PickeringIt was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half...
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The Half-BrothersThe Half-Brothers My mother was twice married. She never spoke of her first husband, and it is only from other people that I have learnt what little I know about him. I believe she was scarcely seventeen when she was married to him: and...
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The Sorrows of Young WertherThe Sorrows of Young Werther I have carefully collected whatever I have been able to learn of the story of poor Werther, and here present it to you, knowing that you will thank me for it. To his spirit and character you cannot refuse...
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My Lady LudlowMy Lady Ludlow I am an old woman now, and things are very different to what they were in my youth. Then we, who travelled, travelled in coaches, carrying six inside, and making a two days journey out of what people now go over...
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John Ingerfield, and Other StoriesJohn Ingerfield, and Other StoriesOnce upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street. Charming little story of yours, he...
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The ManThe ManThe voice of the speaker sounded clearly through the hawthorn tree. The young man and the young girl who sat together on the low tombstone looked at each other. They had heard the voices of the two children talking, but had not noticed...
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A Dark Night's WorkA Dark Night's WorkThe certain shire was but a small county, and the principal town in it contained only about four thousand inhabitants; so in saying that Mr. Wilkins was the principal lawyer in Hamley, I say very little, unless I add that he...
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Lizzie LeighLizzie LeighWhen Death is present in a household on a Christmas Day, the very contrast between the time as it now is, and the day as it has often been, gives a poignancy to sorrowa more utter blankness to the desolation. James Leigh died...
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The Hungry Stones, and Other StoriesThe Hungry Stones, and Other Stories The stories contained in this volume were translated by several hands. The version of The Victory is the author's own work. The seven stories which follow were translated by Mr. C. F. Andrews, with the help of the...
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Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyRedgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its...
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Stepping HeavenwardStepping HeavenwardI meant to get up early this morning, but it looked dismally cold out of doors, and felt delightfully warm in bed. So I covered myself up, and made ever so many good resolutions. I determined, in the first place, to begin this...
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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen AnneThe History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne The estate of Castlewood, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in his Majesty's cause...
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T. TembaromT. Tembarom The boys at the Brooklyn public school which he attended did not know what the T. stood for. He would never tell them. All he said in reply to questions was: It don't stand for nothin'. You've gotter have a' 'nitial, ain't...
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The Lani PeopleThe Lani People The boxed ad in the opportunities section of the Kardon Journal of Allied Medical Sciences stood out like a cut diamond in a handful of gravel. Wanted, it read, Veterinarianfor residency in active livestock operation. Single recent graduate preferred. Quarters and...
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Stories in Light and ShadowStories in Light and Shadow From: ARGONAUT EDITION OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE, VOL. 13 P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK The American consul for Schlachtstadt had just turned out of the broad Konig's Allee into the little square that held his...
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The Heir of RedclyffeThe Heir of Redclyffe The drawing-room of Hollywell House was one of the favoured apartments, where a peculiar air of home seems to reside, whether seen in the middle of summer, all its large windows open to the garden, or, as when our story...
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A Face IlluminedA Face IlluminedPlease 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 dollars for...
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Siddhartha: eine indische DichtungSiddhartha: eine indische DichtungIm Schatten des Hauses, in der Sonne des Fluufers bei den Booten, im Schatten des Salwaldes, im Schatten des Feigenbaumes wuchs Siddhartha auf, der schne Sohn des Brahmanen, der junge Falke, zusammen mit Govinda, seinem Freunde, dem Brahmanensohn. Sonne brunte seine...
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