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The Threatening EyeThe Threatening EyeAn edition of "The Ironmaster," in large crown 8vo, beautifully printed on toned paper, and illustrated with 42 full-page engravings by French artists, separate from the text, is also published, in handsome binding and with gilt edges, price 7s. 6d. "The translation,...
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The Great QuestThe Great Quest - A romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of GuineaOne morning early in the summer of 1826, I brushed the sweat...
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Regiment of WomenRegiment of Women'The monstrous empire of a cruell woman we knowe to be the onlie occasion of all these miseries: and yet with silence we passe the time as thogh the mater did nothinge appertein to us.' The room was a big one. There...
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Uusi aika: RomaaniUusi aika: RomaaniJokirannan nuorisoseura oli koko kesn ahkerasti voimistellut ja urheillut. Aikaisesta kevst alkaen nhtiin nuoria miehi ja poikasia joka ikinen piv juoksuharjoituksissa puolialastomina. Toisinaan hypittiin korkeushyppy ja kolmiloikkaa ja riideltiin vahvasti, milloin senti-, milloin millimetreist. Myhemmin kesll liittyivt tytt mukaan. Sitte se vasta...
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When the Owl CriesWhen the Owl Cries This novel commemorates the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution. I have written the book because I am fond of Mexico, where I have lived for many years. My story of an hacienda family, though not historical, represents the end...
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Der WaldbrandDer WaldbrandBruder! so nenn ich Dich noch nach fnfzehn Jahren Trennung und nenn ich Dich hier, in tausend Meilen Entfernung. Ich dachte wohl sonst in meiner Einsamkeit, nun m ich Dich erst recht Bruder nennen, mit Dir wie mit einem Nahen, Lebendigen leben, ja...
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The Fall of Prince Florestan of MonacoThe Fall of Prince Florestan of MonacoI am Prince Florestan of Wurtemberg, born in 1850, and consequently now of the mature age of twenty-four. I might call myself Florestan II. but I think it better taste for a dethroned prince, especially when he happens...
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The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan WarThe Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan WarIn the series commencing with the present volume GUSTAVE AIMARD has entirely changed the character of his stories. He has selected a magnificent episode of American history, the liberation of Texas from the intolerable yoke of...
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Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3)Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3)The grey dawn was slowly and faintly breaking, with the calm, dull light of a winter's morning. The stormy wind had sunk to rest, the fire, no longer fanned by its heavy gusts, had nearly abated, and what...
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Arsène Lupin versus Herlock SholmesArsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes On the eighth day of last December, Mon. Gerbois, professor of mathematics at the College of Versailles, while rummaging in an old curiosity-shop, unearthed a small mahogany writing-desk which pleased him very much on account of the multiplicity of...
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The Annals of AnnThe Annals of AnnNot being extra good in grammar and spelling, I thought I'd copy a few pages out of Cousin Eunice's diary this morning as a pattern to keep mine by, but I was disappointed. Nearly every page I turned to in hers...
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To LeewardTo LeewardThere are two Romes. There is the Rome of the intelligent foreigner, consisting of excavations, monuments, tramways, hotels, typhoid fever, incense, and wax candles; and there is the Rome within, a city of antique customs, good and bad, a town full of aristocratic...
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A Woman's LoveA Woman's LoveMy grandfather and the grandfather of Seymour Pendarves were brothers, and the younger sons of a gentleman of ancient family and large possessions in the county of Cornwall; some of whose paternal ancestors were amongst the first settlers in America. Disappointments, of...
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Pippin A Wandering FlamePippin; A Wandering FlameTHE chaplain seemed to be waiting for some one. He was sitting in his office, as usual at this hour of the morning the little bare office in a corner of Shoreham State Prison, with its worn desk and stool, its...
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The Old Adam: A Story of AdventureThe Old Adam: A Story of AdventureThe first two words of this disturbing meditation had reference to the fact that, by telephoning twice to his stockbrokers at Manchester, he had just made the sum of three hundred and forty-one pounds in a purely speculative...
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De Drie Musketiers dl. I en IIDe Drie Musketiers dl. I en IIOngeveer een jaar geleden, in de Koninklijke Bibliotheek eenige nazoekingen doende voor mijn geschiedenis van Lodewijk XIV, kwamen mij toevallig de Gedenkschriften van den Heer dArtagnan in handen, welk werkzooals de meeste van dien tijd, toen de schrijvers,...
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Manners: A Novel, Vol 3Manners: A Novel, Vol 3The lady who did the honours of Mr. O'Sullivan's house to our English travellers, on the night of their arrival at Ballinamoyle, Miss Fitzcarril by name, was in person extremely tall; and a carriage of extraordinary uprightness gave her, with...
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Manners: A Novel, Vol 2Manners: A Novel, Vol 2It was long before Selina's agitated spirits could be composed; and when at length she sunk to rest, she was haunted by confused dreams of mixed joy and sorrow, in which Mordaunt's figure was always prominent. At last, however, towards...
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Manners: A Novel, Vol 1Manners: A Novel, Vol 1In the retired village of Deane, in Yorkshire, lived for many years one of those unfortunate females ycleped an old maid; a title which generally exposes the possessor to every species of contempt, however inoffensive, or even worthy, the individual...
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Akbar: An Eastern RomanceAkbar: An Eastern RomanceThe grand figure of the Emperor Akbar, the ruler of India during the last half of the sixteenth century (15561605), for many reasons appeared to me to be of such importance that I could not resist the temptation of making him...
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