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The Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm WhalesThe Cruise of the "Cachalot" Round the World After Sperm Whales Without attempting the ambitious task of presenting a comprehensive sketch of the origin, rise, and fall of whale-fishing as a whole, it seems necessary to give a brief outline of that portion of...
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Chronicles of AvonleaChronicles of Avonlea Anne Shirley was curled up on the window-seat of Theodora Dixs sitting-room one Saturday evening, looking dreamily afar at some fair starland beyond the hills of sunset. Anne was visiting for a fortnight of her vacation at Echo Lodge, where Mr....
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The Country DoctorThe Country Doctor In hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of Eugnie Grandet, does Balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than in Le Mdecin de Campagne; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of...
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Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary SpaceOff on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space Among so many effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest. Yet, certainly, even amid Vernes remarkable works, his Off on a Comet must be given...
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A Master's DegreeA Master's Degree IT happened by mere chance that the September day on which Professor Vincent Burgess, A.B., from Boston, first entered Sunrise College as instructor in Greek, was the same day on which Vic Burleigh, overgrown country boy from a Kansas claim out...
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Pride and PrejudicePride and Prejudice It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a...
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BureaucracyBureaucracy In Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance we are about to make at a moment when...
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Peter Pan in Kensington GardensPeter Pan in Kensington Gardens If you ask your mother whether she knew about Peter Pan when she was a little girl she will say, Why, of course, I did, child, and if you ask her whether he rode on a goat in those...
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A Voyage to ArcturusA Voyage to Arcturus On a March evening, at eight oclock, Backhouse, the mediuma fast-rising star in the psychic worldwas ushered into the study at Prolands, the Hampstead residence of Montague Faull. The room was illuminated only by the light of a blazing fire....
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Elizabeth and Her German GardenElizabeth and Her German Garden Originally published in 1898, Elizabeth and her German Garden is the first book by Marie Annette Beauchampknown all her life as Elizabeth. The book, anonymously published, was an incredible success, going through printing after printing by several publishers over...
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The MalefactorThe Malefactor Tall and burly, with features and skin hardened by exposure to the sun and winds of many climates, he looked like a man ready to face all hardships, equal to any emergency. Already one seemed to see the clothes and habits of...
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Selected Stories of Bret HarteSelected Stories of Bret Harte The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing...
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Over the SliprailsOver the Sliprails There were about a dozen of us jammed into the coach, on the box seat and hanging on to the roof and tailboard as best we could. We were shearers, bagmen, agents, a squatter, a cockatoo, the usual jokerand one or...
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The Magic SkinThe Magic Skin Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of...
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The Annals of the ParishThe Annals of the Parish - Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah BalwhidderIn the same year, and on the same day of the same month, that his Sacred Majesty King George, the third of the name, came to...
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The ScapegoatThe Scapegoat Within sight of an English port, and within hail of English ships as they pass on to our empire in the East, there is a land where the ways of life are the same to-day as they were a thousand years ago;...
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The Virginian: A Horseman of the PlainsThe Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains Some of these pages you have seen, some you have praised, one stands new-written because you blamed it; and all, my dear critic, beg leave to remind you of their author's changeless admiration. Certain of the newspapers,...
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Riders of the Purple SageRiders of the Purple Sage Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her thoughtful and almost sad, awaiting the churchmen who were coming to resent...
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The Heritage of the SiouxThe Heritage of the Sioux THE HERITAGE OF THE SIOUX CHAPTER I. WHEN GREEN GRASS COMES CHAPTER II. THE DAUGHTER OF A CHIEF CHAPTER III. TO THE VICTORS THE SPOILS CHAPTER IV. LOVE WORDS FOR ANNIE CHAPTER V. FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMPANY...
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The ProvostThe ProvostDuring a recent visit to the West Country, among other old friends we paid our respects to Mrs Pawkie, the relict of the Provost of that name, who three several times enjoyed the honour of being chief magistrate in Gudetown. Since the death...
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