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Penrod and SamPenrod and Sam CHAPTER I. PENROD AND SAM CHAPTER II. THE BONDED PRISONER CHAPTER III. THE MILITARIST CHAPTER IV. BINGISM CHAPTER V. THE IN-OR-IN CHAPTER VI. GEORGIE BECOMES A MEMBER CHAPTER VII. WHITEY CHAPTER VIII. SALVAGE CHAPTER IX. REWARD OF MERIT CHAPTER X. CONSCIENCE...
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Damaged GoodsDamaged Goods - The great play "Les avariés" by Brieux, novelized with the approval of the author My endeavor has been to tell a simple story, preserving as closely as possible the spirit and feeling of the original. I have tried, as it were,...
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BabbittBabbittThe towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-buildings. The mist took pity on the fretted structures...
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The Secret AdversaryThe Secret Adversary It was 2 p.m. on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. The Lusitania had been struck by two torpedoes in succession and was sinking rapidly, while the boats were being launched with all possible speed. The women and children were being...
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The Chessmen of MarsThe Chessmen of Mars Shea had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this indication of failing mentality by calling his attention for the nth time to that...
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A Journey from This World to the NextA Journey from This World to the Next Whether the ensuing pages were really the dream or vision of some very pious and holy person; or whether they were really written in the other world, and sent back to this, which is the opinion...
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In the CageIn the Cage It had occurred to her early that in her positionthat of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpieshe should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That made...
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Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von TarlenheimRupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim - Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda CHAPTER I. THE QUEENS GOOD-BY CHAPTER II. A STATION WITHOUT A CAB CHAPTER III. AGAIN TO ZENDA CHAPTER IV. AN EDDY ON THE MOAT CHAPTER V. AN...
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TyphoonTyphoon [PG NOTE: The other stories usually included in this volume (Amy Foster, Falk: A Reminiscence, and To-morrow) being already available in the PG catalog, are not entered them here.] The main characteristic of this volume consists in this, that all the stories composing...
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The Research MagnificentThe Research Magnificent 1 The story of William Porphyry Benham is the story of a man who was led into adventure by an idea. It was an idea that took possession of his imagination quite early in life, it grew with him and changed...
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The RivermanThe Riverman The time was the year 1872, and the place a bend in the river above a long pond terminating in a dam. Beyond this dam, and on a flat lower than it, stood a two-story mill structure. Save for a small, stump-dotted...
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The Turmoil: A NovelThe Turmoil: A Novel There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke. The stranger must feel the dirt before he feels the wonder, for the dirt...
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The Faith of MenThe Faith of MenI wash my hands of him at the start. I cannot father his tales, nor will I be responsible for them. I make these preliminary reservations, observe, as a guard upon my own integrity. I possess a certain definite position in...
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The Beast in the JungleThe Beast in the JungleWhat determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intentionspoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had...
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The Light of the Western StarsThe Light of the Western Stars When Madeline Hammond stepped from the train at El Cajon, New Mexico, it was nearly midnight, and her first impression was of a huge dark space of cool, windy emptiness, strange and silent, stretching away under great blinking...
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Moon-Face, and Other StoriesMoon-Face, and Other Stories John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre...
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Rolf in the WoodsRolf in the Woods In this story I have endeavoured to realize some of the influences that surrounded the youth of America a hundred years ago, and made of them, first, good citizens, and, later, in the day of peril, heroes that won the...
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A Horse's TaleA Horse's TaleAlthough I have had several opportunities to see a bull-fight, I have never seen one; but I needed a bull-fight in this book, and a trustworthy one will be found in it. I got it out of John Hays Castilian Days, reducing...
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Dead SoulsDead Souls From the Author to the Reader Reader, whosoever or wheresoever you be, and whatsoever be your stationwhether that of a member of the higher ranks of society or that of a member of the plainer walks of lifeI beg of you, if...
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The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two NotesThe Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two NotesThe pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writers childhoods friend. They had parted as...
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