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Burning DaylightBurning Daylight It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice as remedies for scurvy....
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Oliver TwistOliver Twist Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit,...
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A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent FictionA Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presence may...
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Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern RiverAlmayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern RiverThe well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant voice too. He had heard it for many years, and with every year he liked...
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Chita: A Memory of Last IslandChita: A Memory of Last Island Travelling south from New Orleans to the Islands, you pass through a strange land into a strange sea, by various winding waterways. You can journey to the Gulf by lugger if you please; but the trip may be...
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Tono-BungayTono-Bungay Most people in this world seem to live in character; they have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as being of...
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The Cruise of the Jasper BThe Cruise of the Jasper B. On an evening in April, 191-, Clement J. Cleggett walked sedately into the news room of the New York Enterprise with a drab-colored walking-stick in his hand. He stood the cane in a corner, changed his sober street...
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Allan QuatermainAllan Quatermain December 23 I have just buried my boy, my poor handsome boy of whom I was so proud, and my heart is broken. It is very hard having only one son to lose him thus, but Gods will be done. Who am...
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Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur CracksmanRaffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman I am still uncertain which surprised me more, the telegram calling my attention to the advertisement, or the advertisement itself. The telegram is before me as I write. It would appear to have been handed in at...
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Love of Life, and Other StoriesLove of Life, and Other StoriesThey limped painfully down the bank, and once the foremost of the two men staggered among the rough-strewn rocks. They were tired and weak, and their faces had the drawn expression of patience which comes of hardship long endured....
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The MansionThe MansionThere was an air of calm and reserved opulence about the Weightman mansion that spoke not of money squandered, but of wealth prudently applied. Standing on a corner of the Avenue no longer fashionable for residence, it looked upon the swelling tide of...
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The Amateur CracksmanThe Amateur Cracksman It was half-past twelve when I returned to the Albany as a last desperate resort. The scene of my disaster was much as I had left it. The baccarat-counters still strewed the table, with the empty glasses and the loaded ash-trays....
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The RoadmenderThe RoadmenderI have attained my ideal: I am a roadmender, some say stonebreaker. Both titles are correct, but the one is more pregnant than the other. All day I sit by the roadside on a stretch of grass under a high hedge of saplings...
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The Old Curiosity ShopThe Old Curiosity ShopA lthough I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. In the summer I often leave home early in the morning, and roam about fields and lanes all day, or even escape for days or weeks together;...
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Stories from Everybody's MagazineStories from Everybody's MagazinePlease 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...
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The Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George DedlowThe Autobiography of a Quack, and The Case of George Dedlow Both of the tales in this little volume appeared originally in the Atlantic Monthly as anonymous contributions. I owe to the present owners of that journal permission to use them. The Autobiography of...
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The Castle of OtrantoThe Castle of Otranto The following work was found in the library of an ancient Catholic family in the north of England. It was printed at Naples, in the black letter, in the year 1529. How much sooner it was written does not appear....
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other StoriesThe Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories On comparing with the original Russian some English translations of Count Tolstoys works, published both in this country and in England, I concluded that they were far from being accurate. The majority of them were retranslations from the...
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The Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other StoriesThe Goodness of St. Rocque, and Other Stories Manuela was tall and slender and graceful, and once you knew her the lithe form could never be mistaken. She walked with the easy spring that comes from a perfectly arched foot. To-day she swept swiftly...
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Creatures That Once Were MenCreatures That Once Were Men It is certainly a curious fact that so many of the voices of what is called our modern religion have come from countries which are not only simple, but may even be called barbaric. A nation like Norway has...
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