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Historical MiniaturesHistorical Miniatures Maximilian Harden, the well-known critic, writes in the Zukunft (7th September 1907) of the Historical Miniatures: A very interesting book, as might be expected, for it is Strindbergs. And I am bold enough to say a book which should and must be...
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The Jealousies of a Country TownThe Jealousies of a Country TownThe two stories of /Les Rivalites/ are more closely connected than it was always Balzac's habit to connect the tales which he united under a common heading. Not only are both devoted to the society of Alencona town and...
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The Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second SeriesThe Historical Nights' Entertainment: Second Series The kindly reception accorded to the first volume of the Historical Nights Entertainment, issued in December of 1917, has encouraged me to prepare the second series here assembled. As in the case of the narratives that made up...
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The Diary of a U-boat CommanderThe Diary of a U-boat Commander - With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes by Etienne "In collaboration with Navallus. Five Songs from the Grand Fleet." "We rammed a destroyer, passing through her like a knife through cheese" "...they are so black and swift I...
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Mrs. Day's DaughtersMrs. Day's DaughtersIt was three o'clock in the morning when the guests danced Sir Roger de Coverley at Mrs. William Day's New Year's party. They would as soon have thought of having supper without trifle, tipsy-cake, and syllabub, in those days, as of finishing...
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The Native Born or, the Rajah's PeopleThe Native Born; or, the Rajah's PeopleIn earlier days a preface to a novel with no direct historical source always seemed to me somewhat out of place, since I believed that the author could be indebted solely to his own imagination. I have learned,...
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Virgilia or, Out of the Lion's MouthVirgilia; or, Out of the Lion's MouthThe Circus in Rome was thronged with an enormous crowd of persons on a day in June, about two thousand years ago. One hundred thousand men and women sat on its tiers of white marble seats, under the...
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All-Wool MorrisonAll-Wool Morrison - Time -- Today, Place -- the United States, Period of Action -- Twenty-four HoursFrom the days of old Angus, who came over from Scotland and established a woolen mill and handed it down to David, who placed it confidently in the...
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Parisians in the CountryParisians in the Country I have sometimes wondered whether it was accident or intention which made Balzac so frequently combine early and late work in the same volume. The question is certainly insoluble, and perhaps not worth solving, but it presents itself once more...
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EndymionEndymion It was a rich, warm night, at the beginning of August, when a gentleman enveloped in a cloak, for he was in evening dress, emerged from a club-house at the top of St. James Street, and descended that celebrated eminence. He had not...
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The CelibatesThe CelibatesLes Celibataires, the longest number of the original Comedie Humaine under a single title, next to Illusions perdues, is not, like that book, connected by any unity of story. Indeed, the general bond of union is pretty weak; and though it is quite...
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Hide and SeekHide and Seek This novel ranks the third, in order of succession, of the works of fiction which I have produced. The history of its reception, on its first appearance, is soon told. Unfortunately for me, Hide And Seek was originally published in the...
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The Eight Strokes of the ClockThe Eight Strokes of the Clock These adventures were told to me in the old days by Arsne Lupin, as though they had happened to a friend of his, named Prince Rnine. As for me, considering the way in which they were conducted, the...
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A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-DayA Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day A gentleman in the prime of life stood with his elbow on the broad mantel-piece, and made himself agreeable to a young lady, seated a little way off, playing at work. To the ear he was only...
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Heart and Science: A Story of the Present TimeHeart and Science: A Story of the Present Time You are the children of Old Mother England, on both sides of the Atlantic; you form the majority of buyers and borrowers of novels; and you judge of works of fiction by certain inbred preferences,...
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The Fallen LeavesThe Fallen Leaves Experience of the reception of The Fallen Leaves by intelligent readers, who have followed the course of the periodical publication at home and abroad, has satisfied me that the design of the work speaks for itself, and that the scrupulous delicacy...
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The Dead AliveThe Dead Alive HEART all right, said the doctor. Lungs all right. No organic disease that I can discover. Philip Lefrank, dont alarm yourself. You are not going to die yet. The disease you are suffering from isoverwork. The remedy in your case isrest....
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Wie Wiselis Weg gefunden wird ErzählungWie Wiselis Weg gefunden wird ErzählungDrauen vor der Stadt Bern liegt ein Drflein an einem Berghang. Ich kann hier nicht sagen, wie es heit, aber ich will es ein wenig beschreiben. Wer dann dahinkommt, der kann es gleich erkennen. Oben auf der Anhhe steht...
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Blind LoveBlind Love It was conveyed to me by Mr. A. P. Watt. He told me that his son had just come from Wilkie Collins: that they had been speaking of his novel, "Blind Love," then running in the Illustrated London News: that the novel...
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FortitudeFortitude 'Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it ... this from old Frosted Moses in the warm corner by the door. There might have been an answer, but Dicky Tasset, the Town Idiot, filled in the pause with the tale...
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