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Cinq années de ma vie, 1894-1899Cinq années de ma vie, 1894-1899Cet ouvrage a t compos et imprim en franais et en anglais dans les Etats-Unis d'Amrique, o le texte franais et la composition anglaise sont protgs par le "Copyright". Je suis n Mulhouse, en Alsace, le 9 octobre 1859....
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Three Little Women: A Story for GirlsThree Little Women: A Story for GirlsThe afternoon was a wild one. All day driving sheets of rain had swept along the streets of Riveredge, hurled against windowpanes by fierce gusts of wind, or dashed in miniature rivers across piazzas. At noon it seemed...
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Mated from the Morgue: A Tale of the Second EmpireMated from the Morgue: A Tale of the Second EmpireTHIS tale, such as it is, has one merit. It is a study of manners, mainly made on the spot, not evolved from the shelves of the British Museum. There is in it, at least,...
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Mediæval town seriesThe Story of SevilleIN the story of Seville I have endeavoured to interest the reader in the associations of the buildings and the thoroughfares of the city. I do not claim to have written a full history of Seville, though I have sketched the...
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Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - EnglandClimbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - EnglandFor some years past there has been a remarkably rapid increase in the number of men who climb for climbing's sake within the bounds of the British Isles. When any young and active Englishman sees a...
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Correspondance diplomatique de Bertrand de Salignac de La Mothe Fénélon, Tome SecondCorrespondance diplomatique de Bertrand de Salignac de La Mothe Fénélon, Tome Second - Ambassadeur de France en Angleterre de 1568 à 1575Plainte faite par l'ambassadeur lisabeth contre la saisie de ses dpches, et la conduite des dputs envoys par elle en Allemagne.Il demande formellement,...
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L'Imperatore Giuliano l'Apostata: studio storicoL'Imperatore Giuliano l'Apostata: studio storicoNel presentare questo nuovo mio libro ai miei pochi ma cortesi lettori, io vorrei rinnovare l'espressione di un desiderio, gi manifestato nei miei volumi antecedenti. Io vorrei che essi fossero persuasi che non c', nel mio pensiero, neppur l'ombra di...
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Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 1Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 1THE primary cause of discontent among the American colonies, which led to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, was the proclamation by the King of England after the evacuation of America by the French in 1763,...
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Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880 February-April, 1904Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Wife: January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904"A most interesting book of gossip, which, considered from the point of view of the general public, contains not a dull line from the first to the last. The letters have all the freshness of...
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The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2This history begins when Pizarro and Almagro, Valdivia and Benalcazar, led their desperadoes across the Isthmus to the conquest, massacre, and enslavement of the prosperous and civilised millions who inhabited the Pacific coast of South America. It...
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Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2)Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2)Punctuation and hyphenation have been normalised. Variable, archaic or unusual spelling has been retained. A list of the few corrections made can found at the end of the book. In the text,...
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Southern Spain, Painted by Trevor Haddon, Described by A. F. CalvertSouthern Spain, Painted by Trevor Haddon, Described by A. F. CalvertFEW travellers have leisure enough to traverse the wide realm of tawny Spain in its every part. Those who must confine their attention to a single province naturally select Andalusia, where all the Northerner's...
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A Wanderer in ParisA Wanderer in ParisAlthough the reader will quickly make the discovery for himself, I should like here to emphasise the fact that this is a book about Paris and the Parisians written wholly from the outside, and containing only so much of that city...
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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of TennesseeA Narrative of the Life of David Crockett, of the State of Tennessee.[3] Fashion is a thing I care mighty little about, except when it happens to run just exactly according to my own notion; and I was mighty nigh sending out my book...
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The Bath Road: History, Fashion, and Frivolity on an Old HighwayThe Bath Road: History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old HighwayIt was by your favour, as Editor of the Daily News, that the very gist of this book first saw the light, in the form of two articles in the columns of that paper....
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The South American Republics, Part 1 of 2The South American Republics, Part 1 of 2The question most frequently asked me since I began my stay in South America has been: "Why do they have so many revolutions there?" Possibly the events recounted in the following pages may help the reader to...
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Un été dans le SaharaUn été dans le SaharaCher ami, en te ddiant mes souvenirs de voyage, je ne fais que te restituer des lettres qui t'appartenaient, pour la plupart, avant de devenir un livre. C'est d'ailleurs indiquer l'origine particulire et le sens familier de ces rcits, que...
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Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive SketchesHomes of American Statesmen; With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive SketchesWe need hardly commend to the American public this attempt to describe and familiarize the habitual dwelling-places of some of the more eminent of our Statesmen. In bringing together such particulars as we could gather,...
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Brave Old Salt or, Life on the Quarter Deck: A Story of the Great RebellionBrave Old Salt; or, Life on the Quarter Deck: A Story of the Great RebellionThis volume, the sixth and last of "The Army and Navy Stories," is a record of "Life on the Quarter Deck," mostly in the squadron of Vice Admiral Farragut, one...
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The Anglo-French Entente in the 17th CenturyThe Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth CenturyOf late there have appeared on the literary relations of England and France some excellent books, foremost of which may be mentioned, besides the now classical works of M. Jusserand, Dr. A. H. Upham's French Influence in English...
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