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Bleak HouseBleak HouseA Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice...
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The First Men in the MoonThe First Men in the Moon As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr....
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The Lure of the Dim TrailsThe Lure of the Dim Trails What do you care, anyway? asked Reeve-Howard philosophically. It isn't as if you depended on the work for a living. Why worry over the fact that a mere pastime fails to be financially a success. You don't need...
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Don QuixoteDon Quixote It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that of a new edition of Sheltons Don Quixote, which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are someand I...
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Malbone: An Oldport RomanceMalbone: An Oldport Romance AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes the marble slopes of the Pirates Cave, it is natural to think of the ten wrecks with...
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Master and ManMaster and Man It happened in the seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholass Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and...
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Father SergiusFather Sergius In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I. and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement...
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The Yates Pride: A RomanceThe Yates Pride: A Romance Opposite Miss Eudora Yatess old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an unmarried sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had...
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Alice AdamsAlice Adams The patient, an old-fashioned man, thought the nurse made a mistake in keeping both of the windows open, and her sprightly disregard of his protests added something to his hatred of her. Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption...
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The Secret Agent: A Simple TaleThe Secret Agent: A Simple TaleMr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc...
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Howard Pyle's Book of PiratesHoward Pyle's Book of Pirates - Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main The author of this narrative cannot recall that, in any history of the famous pirates, he has ever read a detailed and sufficient account of...
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The Tenant of Wildfell HallThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall While I acknowledge the success of the present work to have been greater than I anticipated, and the praises it has elicited from a few kind critics to have been greater than it deserved, I must also admit that...
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Maid MarianMaid Marian The abbot, in his alb arrayed, stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with...
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Martin ChuzzlewitMartin Chuzzlewit What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may...
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Nicholas NicklebyNicholas NicklebyThis story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed Pickwick Papers. There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard...
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The Black TulipThe Black Tulip On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses,...
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Little DorritLittle Dorrit I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a...
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DustDust DUST was piled in thick, velvety folds on the weeds and grass of the open Kansas prairie; it lay, a thin veil on the scrawny black horses and the sharp-boned cow picketed near a covered wagon; it showered to the ground in little...
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Lady SusanLady Susan MY DEAR BROTHER,I can no longer refuse myself the pleasure of profiting by your kind invitation when we last parted of spending some weeks with you at Churchhill, and, therefore, if quite convenient to you and Mrs. Vernon to receive me at...
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Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical ForestGreen Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest I take up pen for this foreword with the fear of one who knows that he cannot do justice to his subject, and the trembling of one who would not, for a good deal, set down...
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