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A Dark Night's WorkA Dark Night's WorkThe certain shire was but a small county, and the principal town in it contained only about four thousand inhabitants; so in saying that Mr. Wilkins was the principal lawyer in Hamley, I say very little, unless I add that he...
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Lizzie LeighLizzie LeighWhen Death is present in a household on a Christmas Day, the very contrast between the time as it now is, and the day as it has often been, gives a poignancy to sorrowa more utter blankness to the desolation. James Leigh died...
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The Hungry Stones, and Other StoriesThe Hungry Stones, and Other Stories The stories contained in this volume were translated by several hands. The version of The Victory is the author's own work. The seven stories which follow were translated by Mr. C. F. Andrews, with the help of the...
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Redgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth CenturyRedgauntlet: A Tale of the Eighteenth Century The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its...
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Stepping HeavenwardStepping HeavenwardI meant to get up early this morning, but it looked dismally cold out of doors, and felt delightfully warm in bed. So I covered myself up, and made ever so many good resolutions. I determined, in the first place, to begin this...
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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen AnneThe History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne The estate of Castlewood, in Virginia, which was given to our ancestors by King Charles the First, as some return for the sacrifices made in his Majesty's cause...
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T. TembaromT. Tembarom The boys at the Brooklyn public school which he attended did not know what the T. stood for. He would never tell them. All he said in reply to questions was: It don't stand for nothin'. You've gotter have a' 'nitial, ain't...
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The Lani PeopleThe Lani People The boxed ad in the opportunities section of the Kardon Journal of Allied Medical Sciences stood out like a cut diamond in a handful of gravel. Wanted, it read, Veterinarianfor residency in active livestock operation. Single recent graduate preferred. Quarters and...
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Stories in Light and ShadowStories in Light and Shadow From: ARGONAUT EDITION OF THE WORKS OF BRET HARTE, VOL. 13 P. F. COLLIER & SON NEW YORK The American consul for Schlachtstadt had just turned out of the broad Konig's Allee into the little square that held his...
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The Heir of RedclyffeThe Heir of Redclyffe The drawing-room of Hollywell House was one of the favoured apartments, where a peculiar air of home seems to reside, whether seen in the middle of summer, all its large windows open to the garden, or, as when our story...
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A Face IlluminedA Face IlluminedPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars for...
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Siddhartha: eine indische DichtungSiddhartha: eine indische DichtungIm Schatten des Hauses, in der Sonne des Fluufers bei den Booten, im Schatten des Salwaldes, im Schatten des Feigenbaumes wuchs Siddhartha auf, der schne Sohn des Brahmanen, der junge Falke, zusammen mit Govinda, seinem Freunde, dem Brahmanensohn. Sonne brunte seine...
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SiddharthaSiddhartha In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon,...
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Put Yourself in His PlacePut Yourself in His Place I will frame a work of fiction upon notorious fact, so that anybody shall think he can do the same; shall labor and toil attempting the same, and failsuch is the power of sequence and connection in writing.HORACE: Art...
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Our VillageOur Village I. There is a great deal of admirable literature concerning Miss Mitford, so much of it indeed, that the writer of this little notice feels as if she almost owed an apology to those who remember, for having ventured to write, on...
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Moby Dick Or, The WhaleMoby Dick; Or, The Whale Call me Ishmael. Some years agonever mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part...
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20,000 Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the WorldTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the WorldThe deepest parts of the ocean are totally unknown to us, admits Professor Aronnax early in this novel. What goes on in those distant depths? What creatures inhabit, or could inhabit, those regions...
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Queer Little FolksQueer Little FolksOnce there was a nice young hen that we will call Mrs. Feathertop. She was a hen of most excellent family, being a direct descendant of the Bolton Grays, and as pretty a young fowl as you could wish to see of...
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Under Western EyesUnder Western Eyes To begin with I wish to disclaim the possession of those high gifts of imagination and expression which would have enabled my pen to create for the reader the personality of the man who called himself, after the Russian custom, Cyril...
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White LiesWhite Lies Towards the close of the last century the Baron de Beaurepaire lived in the chateau of that name in Brittany. His family was of prodigious antiquity; seven successive barons had already flourished on this spot when a younger son of the house...
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