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War and the WeirdWar and the Weird[11] "Do you think there is anything in it?" He was a clean-set six-foot specimen of English manhood, an officer of the R.F.A. wounded at Mons, who spoke. "I mean I haven't studied these subjects muchin fact, I haven't studied them...
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Tam o' the ScootsTam o' the ScootsMr. Lasky was a bright-faced lad who, in ordinary circumstances, might have been looking forward to his leaving-book from Eton, but now had to his credit divers bombed dumps and three enemy airmen. "And yeer gun jammed, A'm thinkin', so wi'...
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Bristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth CenturyBristol Bells: A Story of the Eighteenth CenturyThe incidents in the life of Thomas Chatterton which are introduced into this story are gathered chiefly from Mr Masson's exhaustive essay and a biography of the poet by Mr Chatterton Dix. In these books full details...
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Heist Job on ThizarHeist Job on ThizarIn the future, we may discover new planets; our ships may rocket to new worlds; robots may be smarter than people. But we'll still have slick characters willing and able to turn a fast buckeven though they have to be smarter...
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The Night of the Long KnivesThe Night of the Long KnivesI was one hundred miles from Nowhereand I mean that literallywhen I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from...
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Ein Drama in MexicoEin Drama in Mexico. Am 18. October 1825 gingen die Asia, ein groes spanisches Kriegsschiff, und die Constanzia, eine Brigg von acht Kanonen, bei der Insel Guajan, einer der Mariannen, vor Anker. Vor sechs Monaten schon hatten diese Fahrzeuge Spanien verlassen und unter den...
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A Son of the ImmortalsA Son of the ImmortalsOn a day in May, not so long ago, Joan Vernon, coming out into the sunshine from her lodging in the Place de la Sorbonne, smiled a morning greeting to the statue of Auguste Comte, founder of Positivism. It would...
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The House of SoulsThe House of SoulsIt was somewhere, I think, towards the autumn of the year 1889 that the thought occurred to me that I might perhaps try to write a little in the modern way. For, hitherto, I had been, as it were, wearing costume...
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Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1Bouvard and Pécuchet: A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life, part 1Farther down, the Canal St. Martin, confined by two locks, showed in a straight line its water black as ink. In the middle of it was a boat, filled with timber, and on the...
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Amtmannin MariaAmtmannin MariaVanha ylimetsnhoitajan rouva oli jo enemmn kuin vuosi takaperin kuollut. Vuosi on pitk aika kuolleille, jotka, kuten tiedetn, pian unhoitetaan, eik tuo vanha nainen Hirschwinkeliss ollut, kuten sill maanpaikalla oli tapana sanoa, jttnyt jlkeens yhtn "ystvyytt" [sukulaisia] hnen thtens ei ollut lhell eik...
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The Strange Adventure of James ShervintonThe Strange Adventure of James Shervinton - 1902 The night was close and stifling, and the dulled bellowing of the surf on the weather side of the island told me that the calm was about to break at last, and in another hour or...
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An Old Man's LoveAn Old Man's LoveThis story, "An Old Man's Love," is the last of my father's novels. As I have stated in the preface to his Autobiography, "The Landleaguers" was written after this book, but was never fully completed. Mr William Whittlestaff was strolling very...
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Concerning "Bully" HayesConcerning "Bully" Hayes - From "The Strange Adventure of James Shervinton, and Other Stories" - 1902 "BULLY" HAYES! Oh, halcyon days of the sixties and seventies, when the Pacific was not, as now, patrolled by men-of-war from lonely Pylstaart, in the Friendlies, to the...
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The Tapu of BanderahThe Tapu of Banderah - 1901 As the rising sun had just begun to pierce the misty tropic haze of early dawn, a small, white-painted schooner of ninety or a hundred tons burden was bearing down upon the low, densely-wooded island of Mayou, which...
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AmauryAmauryExiste en Francia una cosa tan peculiar, tan genuina del carcter nacional, que con dificultad se encuentra en otro pas cualquiera: la conversacin, en cuya especialidad no hay nadie que pueda competir con los franceses. No pocas veces, estando yo en Italia, en Alemania...
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TommyTommyMy only qualification for writing this simple story of "Tommy" is that I have tried to know him, and that I greatly admire him. I met him before he joined the army, when for more than six months I addressed recruiting meetings. I have...
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Roger TrewinionRoger Trewinion ALL MEN ARE LIARS FIELDS OF FAIR RENOWN ISHMAEL PENGELLY THE STORY OF ANDREW FAIRFAX JABEZ EASTERBROOK THE MONK OF MAR-SARA ZILLAH: A Romance WEAPONS OF MYSTERY MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH THE BIRTHRIGHT: A ROMANCE AND SHALL TRELAWNEY DIE? THE SCARLET WOMAN THE...
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The Gift BearerThe Gift BearerLike the good general he was, Richard J. Montcalm had foreseen trouble at this meeting, for it was the boldest invasion yet into the territory of evil and laxity. His forces were marshaled. Several of the town's ministers who had been with...
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The Sun KingThe Sun KingBefore the flood, even before Egypt's greatness, the world was divided into three main countries, named Jaffeth, Shem and Arabin'ya. There were other less populated lands and places; Uropa in the west, Heleste in the north, and the two great lands of...
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Aaveiden näkijä eli Kuvauksia NordlandistaAaveiden näkijä eli Kuvauksia NordlandistaMin tunnen monta ihmist, joilla on sama halu, kuin vliin minulla itsellnikin valita juuri myrskysn ulkoilmassa kvellkseen. Nmt ihmiset ovat useimmiten sellaisia, jotka lapsuudessaan ovat elneet vapaassa ilmassa maalla, mutta sitte siirtyneet toimiin, jotka vaativat enemmn paikoillansa istumista, ja joille...
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