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BeatrixBeatrix France, especially in Brittany, still possesses certain towns completely outside of the movement which gives to the nineteenth century its peculiar characteristics. For lack of quick and regular communication with Paris, scarcely connected by wretched roads with the sub-prefecture, or the chief city...
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Colonel ChabertColonel Chabert This exclamation was made by a lawyers clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumpera messenger in factwho at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to...
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The Yellow WallpaperThe Yellow Wallpaper John is practical in the extreme. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. John is a physician,...
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The Coming RaceThe Coming Race I am a native of _____, in the United States of America. My ancestors migrated from England in the reign of Charles II.; and my grandfather was not undistinguished in the War of Independence. My family, therefore, enjoyed a somewhat high...
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A Woman of ThirtyA Woman of Thirty It was a Sunday morning in the beginning of April 1813, a morning which gave promise of one of those bright days when Parisians, for the first time in the year, behold dry pavements underfoot and a cloudless sky overhead....
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Scaramouche: A Romance of the French RevolutionScaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution SCARAMOUCHE BOOK I. CHAPTER I. THE REPUBLICAN CHAPTER II. THE ARISTOCRAT CHAPTER III. THE ELOQUENCE OF M. DE VILMORIN CHAPTER IV. THE HERITAGE CHAPTER V. THE LORD OF GAVRILLAC CHAPTER VI. THE WINDMILL CHAPTER VII. THE WIND...
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Letters of Two BridesLetters of Two Brides Sweetheart, I too am free! And I am the first too, unless you have written to Blois, at our sweet tryst of letter-writing. Raise those great black eyes of yours, fixed on my opening sentence, and keep this excitement for...
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The Witch, and Other StoriesThe Witch, and Other Stories IT was approaching nightfall. The sexton, Savely Gykin, was lying in his huge bed in the hut adjoining the church. He was not asleep, though it was his habit to go to sleep at the same time as the...
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Rise and Fall of Cesar BirotteauRise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau During winter nights noise never ceases in the Rue Saint-Honore except for a short interval. Kitchen-gardeners carrying their produce to market continue the stir of carriages returning from theatres and balls. Near the middle of this sustained pause...
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A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieur de MarsacA Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieur de Marsac Many French words in the text have accents, etc. which have been omitted. A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE. CHAPTER I. THE SPORT OF FOOLS. CHAPTER II. THE KING OF NAVARRE. CHAPTER...
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ResurrectionResurrection Opinions about Tolstoy and his work differ, but on one point there surely might be unanimity. A writer of world-wide reputation should be at least allowed to know how to spell his own name. Why should any one insist on spelling it Tolstoi...
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The Second Jungle BookThe Second Jungle Book The Law of the Junglewhich is by far the oldest law in the worldhas arranged for almost every kind of accident that may befall the Jungle People, till now its code is as perfect as time and custom can make...
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The Tremendous Adventures of Major GahaganThe Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends,...
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The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty DiamondThe History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty DiamondWhen I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond-pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket,...
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The Zeppelin's PassengerThe Zeppelin's Passenger Never heard a sound, the younger of the afternoon callers admitted, getting rid of his empty cup and leaning forward in his low chair. No more tea, thank you, Miss Fairclough. Done splendidly, thanks. No, I went to bed last night...
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Penguin IslandPenguin Island Mal, a scion of a royal family of Cambria, was sent in his ninth year to the Abbey of Yvern so that he might there study both sacred and profane learning. At the age of fourteen he renounced his patrimony and took...
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Elinor Wyllys Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume 2Elinor Wyllys; Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume 2Please 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...
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Elinor Wyllys Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume 1Elinor Wyllys; Or, The Young Folk of Longbridge: A Tale. Volume 1THERE is so much of mystification resorted to, at the present time, in the publication of books, that it has become proper that the editor of Elinor Wyllys should explain what has been...
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Droll Stories — Volume 1Droll Stories — Volume 1 When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher's name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would...
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The Poisoned PenThe Poisoned PenPlease 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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