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The ChimesThe Chimes - A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year InThere are not many peopleand as it is desirable that a story-teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual understanding as soon as possible, I...
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Rasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaRasselas, Prince of AbyssiniaRasselas was written by Samuel Johnson in the year 1759, when his age was fifty. He had written his London in 1738; his Vanity of Human Wishes in 1740; his Rambler between March, 1750, and March, 1752. In 1755 his Dictionary...
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The DynamiterThe DynamiterGentlemen,In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do so in a serious spirit. Let us dedicate our...
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The Figure in the CarpetThe Figure in the CarpetI had done a few things and earned a few penceI had perhaps even had time to begin to think I was finer than was perceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a...
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The Altar of the DeadThe Altar of the DeadHe had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppressions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place...
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The Death of the LionThe Death of the LionI had simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my chief, as he was called in the office: he had the high mission...
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An Outcast of the IslandsAn Outcast of the Islands An Outcast of the Islands is my second novel in the absolute sense of the word; second in conception, second in execution, second as it were in its essence. There was no hesitation, half-formed plan, vague idea, or the...
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Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 Living as we do in the closing year of the twentieth century, enjoying the blessings of a social order at once so simple and logical that it seems but the triumph of common sense, it is no doubt difficult...
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The WardenThe WardenThe Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of ; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was...
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Prester JohnPrester John Time, they say, must the best of us capture, And travel and battle and gems and gold No more can kindle the ancient rapture, For even the youngest of hearts grows old. But in you, I think, the boy is not over;...
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PellucidarPellucidar Several years had elapsed since I had found the opportunity to do any big-game hunting; for at last I had my plans almost perfected for a return to my old stamping-grounds in northern Africa, where in other days I had had excellent sport...
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Gulliver of MarsGulliver of Mars Dare I say it? Dare I say that I, a plain, prosaic lieutenant in the republican service have done the incredible things here set out for the love of a womanfor a chimera in female shape; for a pale, vapid ghost...
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The Monk: A RomanceThe Monk: A Romance IMITATION OF HORACE Ep. 20.B. 1. Methinks, Oh! vain ill-judging Book, I see thee cast a wishful look, Where reputations won and lost are In famous row called Paternoster. Incensed to find your precious olio Buried in unexplored port-folio, You...
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Vanity FairVanity Fair As the manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards and looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound melancholy comes over him in his survey of the bustling place. There is a great quantity of eating and drinking,...
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Notes from the UndergroundNotes from the Underground * The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider...
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A Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. IA Selection from the Writings of Guy De Maupassant, Vol. I Of the French writers of romance of the latter part of the nineteenth century no one made a reputation as quickly as did Guy de Maupassant. Not one has preserved that reputation with...
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CatrionaCatriona It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Companys office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted...
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Master Humphrey's ClockMaster Humphrey's ClockAn author, says Fielding, in his introduction to Tom Jones, ought to consider himself, not as the gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, to which all persons are welcome for their...
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Danny's Own StoryDanny's Own Story HOW I come not to have a last name is a question that has always had more or less aggervation mixed up with it. I might of had one jest as well as not if Old Hank Walters hadn't been so...
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, NorthOur Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North - Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even ThereIN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and cultivated,...
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