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Doña PerfectaDoña Perfecta The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarn, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday. It does not derive from the romantic novel which immediately preceded...
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The Lady of Lyons Or, Love and PrideThe Lady of Lyons; Or, Love and Pride An indistinct recollection of the very pretty little tale, called The Bellows-Mender, suggested the plot of this Drama. The incidents are, however, greatly altered from those in the tale, and the characters entirely re-cast. Having long...
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Trent's Trust, and Other StoriesTrent's Trust, and Other Stories Randolph Trent stepped from the Stockton boat on the San Francisco wharf, penniless, friendless, and unknown. Hunger might have been added to his trials, for, having paid his last coin in passage money, he had been a day and...
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Sermons on the Card, and Other DiscoursesSermons on the Card, and Other DiscoursesHugh Latimer, a farmers son, was born about the year 1491, at Thurcaston, in Leicestershire. He was an only son, with six sisters, who were all well cared for at home. He was a boy of fourteen when...
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Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners)Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) When I lived in the country,which was a long time ago,our nearest neighbours were the Luscombes. They were very great personages in the country indeed, and the family were greatly respected; though not, so far as...
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Letters on EnglandLetters on EnglandFranois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Franois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a...
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The MarriagesThe MarriagesWont you stay a little longer? the hostess asked while she held the girls hand and smiled. Its too early for every one to goits too absurd. Mrs. Churchley inclined her head to one side and looked gracious; she flourished about her face,...
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Lost FaceLost FaceIt was the end. Subienkow had travelled a long trail of bitterness and horror, homing like a dove for the capitals of Europe, and here, farther away than ever, in Russian America, the trail ceased. He sat in the snow, arms tied behind...
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An Essay on Man Moral Essays and SatiresAn Essay on Man; Moral Essays and SatiresPopes life as a writer falls into three periods, answering fairly enough to the three reigns in which he worked. Under Queen Anne he was an original poet, but made little money by his verses; under George...
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Briefe aus der SchweizBriefe aus der SchweizPlease 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...
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Gala-DaysGala-Days Once there was a great noise in our house,a thumping and battering and grating. It was my own self dragging my big trunk down from the garret. I did it myself because I wanted it done. If I had said, "Halicarnassus, will you...
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Tartarin De TarasconTartarin De Tarascon The tale of Tartarin de Tarascon was written by Alphonse Daudet in 1872, and was one of the many works which he produced. In it he pokes gentle fun at a type of Frenchman who comes from the Midi, the area...
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The Princess De MontpensierThe Princess De Montpensier This story was written by Madame de Lafayette and published anonymously in 1662. It is set in a period almost 100 years previously during the sanguinary wars of the counter-reformation, when the Catholic rulers of Europe, with the encouragement of...
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Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt!Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt! "Great Jehoshaphat and Gully Dirt" is presently out of print. It is reproduced here in its entirety. Copies of the first edition of the original work are available by e-mail from nkemp@busprod.com, or WSmithMD@aol.com. An usher I'd not seen...
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Some Short Stories [by Henry James]Some Short Stories [by Henry James]We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. "Yes, you too have been in Arcadia," we...
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His Own PeopleHis Own People The glass-domed palm-room of the Grand Continental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who...
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A House to LetA House to LetI had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for ten years, when my medical manvery clever in his profession, and the prettiest player I ever saw in my life of a hand at Long Whist, which was...
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Hans HuckebeinHans HuckebeinPlease 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 each...
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West-östlicher DivanWest-östlicher DivanPlease 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 each...
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Droll Stories — Volume 2Droll Stories — Volume 2Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been...
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