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Vida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y AdversidadesVida De Lazarillo De Tormes Y De Sus Fortunas Y AdversidadesYo por bien tengo que cosas tan sealadas, y por ventura nunca odas ni vistas, vengan a noticia de muchos y no se entierren en la sepultura del olvido, pues podra ser que alguno...
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St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in EnglandSt. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in EnglandThe following tale was taken down from Mr. Stevensons dictation by his stepdaughter and amanuensis, Mrs. Strong, at intervals between January 1893 and October 1894 (see Vailima Letters, pp. 242246, 299, 324 and 350)....
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Before AdamBefore Adam These are our ancestors, and their history is our history. Remember that as surely as we one day swung down out of the trees and walked upright, just as surely, on a far earlier day, did we crawl up out of the...
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Bunner SistersBunner Sisters In the days when New York's traffic moved at the pace of the drooping horse-car, when society applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy...
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the...
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Three Elephant Power, and Other StoriesThree Elephant Power, and Other Stories Them things, said Alfred the chauffeur, tapping the speed indicator with his fingers, them things are all right for the police. But, Lord, you can fix 'em up if you want to. Did you ever hear about Henery,...
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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 2 The assertion, laughingly flung out six months earlier in a bright June garden, came back to Mary Boyne with a sharp perception of its latent significance as she stood, in the December dusk, waiting...
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The Count's MillionsThe Count's Millions It was a Thursday evening, the fifteenth of October; and although only half-past six oclock, it had been dark for some time already. The weather was cold, and the sky was as black as ink, while the wind blew tempestuously, and...
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Tales from Two HemispheresTales from Two Hemispheres ON the second day of June, 186, a young Norseman, Halfdan Bjerk by name, landed on the pier at Castle Garden. He passed through the straight and narrow gate where he was asked his name, birthplace, and how much money...
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The FlirtThe Flirt Valentine Corliss walked up Corliss Street the hottest afternoon of that hot August, a year ago, wearing a suit of white serge which attracted a little attention from those observers who were able to observe anything except the heat. The coat was...
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The Market-PlaceThe Market-Place THE battle was over, and the victor remained on the fieldsitting alone with the hurly-burly of his thoughts. His triumph was so sweeping and comprehensive as to be somewhat shapeless to the view. He had a sense of fascinated pain when he...
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The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 You ought to buy it, said my host; its just the place for a solitary-minded devil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The...
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The Captain of the Polestar, and Other TalesThe Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales For the use of some of the following Tales I am indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietors of Cornhill, Temple Bar, Belgravia, London Society, Cassells, and The Boys Own Paper. September 11th.Lat. 81 degrees 40...
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Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of HomeBeauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home We are about to relate a story of mingled fact and fancy. The facts are borrowed from the Russian author, Petjerski; the fancy is our own. Our task will chiefly be to soften the outlines of...
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The Golden AgeThe Golden Age 'T IS OPPORTUNE TO LOOK BACK UPON OLD TIMES, AND CONTEMPLATE OUR FOREFATHERS. GREAT EXAMPLES GROW THIN, AND TO BE FETCHED FROM THE PASSED WORLD. SIMPLICITY FLIES AWAY, AND INIQUITY COMES AT LONG STRIDES UPON US." SIR THOMAS BROWNE Looking back...
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Paul Prescott's ChargePaul Prescott's Charge PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE is presented to the public as the second volume of the Campaign Series. Though wholly unlike the first volume, it is written in furtherance of the same main idea, that every boy's life is a campaign, more or...
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Remember the AlamoRemember the Alamo CHAPTER I. THE CITY IN THE WILDERNESS. CHAPTER II. ANTONIA AND ISABEL. CHAPTER III. BUILDERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH. CHAPTER IV. THE SHINING BANDS OF LOVE. CHAPTER V. A FAMOUS BARBECUE. CHAPTER VI. ROBERT WORTH IS DISARMED. CHAPTER VII. A MEETING AT...
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The Wind in the WillowsThe Wind in the Willows The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust...
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Laddie: A True Blue StoryLaddie: A True Blue Story LADDIE, Who Loved and Asked No Questions. THE PRINCESS, From the House of Mystery. LEON, Our Angel Child. LITTLE SISTER, Who Tells What Happened. MR. and MRS. STANTON, Who Faced Life Shoulder to Shoulder. SALLY and PETER, Who Married...
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The Lost ContinentThe Lost Continent We were both of us not a little stiff as the result of sleeping out in the open all that night, for even in Grand Canary the dew-fall and the comparative chill of darkness are not to be trifled with. For...
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