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The Gilded Age: A Tale of TodayThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today CHAPTER I. Squire Hawkins and His Tennessee LandHe Decides to Remove to Missouri CHAPTER II. He Meets With and Adopts the Boy Clay CHAPTER III Uncle Daniels Apparition and PrayeR CHAPTER IV The Steamboat Explosion CHAPTER V...
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A Dog's TaleA Dog's Tale My father was a St. Bernard, my mother was a collie, but I am a Presbyterian. This is what my mother told me, I do not know these nice distinctions myself. To me they are only fine large words meaning nothing....
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The Pursuit of the House-BoatThe Pursuit of the House-BoatThe House-boat of the Associated Shades, formerly located upon the River Styx, as the reader may possibly remember, had been torn from its moorings and navigated out into unknown seas by that vengeful pirate Captain Kidd, aided and abetted by...
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Doctor ThorneDoctor ThorneBefore the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the...
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The Enchanted TypewriterThe Enchanted Typewriter It is a strange fact, for which I do not expect ever satisfactorily to account, and which will receive little credence even among those who know that I am not given to romancingit is a strange fact, I say, that the...
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The Hermit of Far EndThe Hermit of Far End It was very quiet within the little room perched high up under the roof of Wallater's Buildings. Even the glowing logs in the grate burned tranquilly, without any of those brisk cracklings and sputterings which make such cheerful company...
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The Surprising Adventures of Baron MunchausenThe Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen Baron Munchausen has certainly been productive of much benefit to the literary world; the numbers of egregious travellers have been such, that they demanded a very Gulliver to surpass them. If Baron de Tott dauntlessly discharged an enormous...
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The Virgin of the SunThe Virgin of the Sun Some five-and-thirty years ago it was our custom to discuss many matters, among them, I think, the history and romance of the vanished Empires of Central America. In memory of those far-off days will you accept a tale that...
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Andrea DelfinAndrea DelfinThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they can legally do with the texts....
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SheShe In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to explain what my exact connection...
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Marm LisaMarm LisaEden Place was a short street running at right angles with Eden Square, a most unattractive and infertile triangle of ground in a most unattractive but respectable quarter of a large city. It was called a square, not so much, probably, because it...
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A Village StradivariusA Village StradivariusGoodfellow, Puck and goblins, Know more than any book. Down with your doleful problems, And court the sunny brook. The south-winds are quick-witted, The schools are sad and slow, The masters quite omitted The lore we care to know. One of Paggernyners...
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A Summer in a Canyon: A California StoryA Summer in a Canyon: A California StoryIt was nine oclock one sunny California morning, and Geoffrey Strong stood under the live-oak trees in Las Flores Caon, with a pot of black paint in one hand and a huge brush in the other. He...
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The Author of BeltraffioThe Author of BeltraffioMuch as I wished to see him I had kept my letter of introduction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting himconscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by...
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Two on a TowerTwo on a TowerThis slightly-built romance was the outcome of a wish to set the emotional history of two infinitesimal lives against the stupendous background of the stellar universe, and to impart to readers the sentiment that of these contrasting magnitudes the smaller might...
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The Dove in the Eagle's NestThe Dove in the Eagle's NestIn sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytags first series of pictures of...
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The Rise of Roscoe PaineThe Rise of Roscoe Paine I'm going up to the village, I told Dorinda, taking my cap from the hook behind the dining-room door. What for? asked Dorinda, pushing me to one side and reaching for the dust-cloth, which also was behind the door....
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Their PilgrimageTheir Pilgrimage I. FORTRESS MONROE II. CAPE MAY, ATLANTIC CITY III. THE CATSKILLS IV. NEWPORT V. NARRAGANSETT PIER AND NEWPORT AGAIN; MARTHA'S VINEYARD AND PLYMOUTH VI. MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA, ISLES OF SHOALS VII. BAR HARBOR VIII. NATURAL BRIDGE, WHITE SULFUR IX. OLD SWEET AND WHITE SULFUR...
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The Wanderer's NecklaceThe Wanderer's Necklace In memory of Oodnadatta and many wanderings oversea I offer these pictures from the past, my dear Vincent, to you, a lover of the present if an aspirant who can look upon the future with more of hope than fear. Your...
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The Lady of the ShroudThe Lady of the ShroudA strange story comes from the Adriatic. It appears that on the night of the 9th, as the Italia Steamship Companys vessel Victorine was passing a little before midnight the point known as the Spear of Ivan, on the coast...
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