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Imre: A MemorandumIn these pages I give you a chapter out of my life... an episode that at first seemed impossible to write even to you. It has lengthened under my hand, as autobiography is likely to do. My apology is that in setting...

Marty the MartianIt was one of those warm summer afternoons. All one craved for was a patch of green grass to recline on and maybe a faint breeze to tingle one's forehead. I was sure of the grass and hopeful for the breeze. But...

Pink EarsThe Stratford is a hotel for men only, and has the air of quiet seclusion that usually is associated with a conservative club. The lobby is small and far from ornate. The smoking-room is large and comfortable. The dining-room is low-ceilinged and quaint,a...

Travels into Bokhara (Volume 3 of 3) - Being the Account of A Journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia; Also, Narrative of a Voyage on the Indus, From the Sea to Lahore, With Presents From the King of Great Britain; Performed Under...

"Horse Sense" in Verses TenseWalt Masons contributions to the Chronicle have attracted the attention of English readers by their originality and expressiveness, and have brought him letters from Mr. John Masefield and many others. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle regards him as one of the...

Markenmoren salaisuusI. Kahden matkamiehen kotiinpaluu II. Isnnitsijn kamari III. Aamuhmrss IV. Markenmoren notko V. Syytettyn VI. Valamiesoikeus istuu VII. Rouva Braxfield todistaa VIII. Syyttv kirje IX. Yllinen kohtaus X. Sormus ja piippu XI. Ensimmiset toimenpiteet XII. Dower-talo XIII. William Pegge XIV. Poissa XV. Rystmurhako?...

The Kings of the East: A Romance of the Near Future It was a brilliant afternoon in late spring, and Vindobona was taking its pleasure joyously out of doors, as is its wont. The many parks and gardens of the city were crowded with...

A Girl of To-dayYou ridiculous boy! We are only five minutes behind time! Frances seized the intruding hand in a firm grip; and, as the train stopped, leaned out of the window to bestow a sisterly hug. Its good to see you, dear! How...

MessengerHe had been speeding past an off-color white dwarf when it happened. If he had taken the trouble to look around, he would have seen that the white star was going to explode. He knew a potential nova when he took a good look...

The Incredible AliensIt was only a tiny dot on the view screen when the military lookout on the armed cruiser identified it as an alien spaceship and sounded the general alert. Technicist Ninth Class Narant, chief psychanalyst aboard, studied its approach with a rebellious,...

Birthday PresentI watched her as she walked back and forth across my bedroom floor. She had on a sheer plasto dress that clung to her round white breasts and full milky thighs. "I'm picking him up at the spaceway," she said. "We're supposed to...

Viaggio al Capo Nord - fatto l'anno 1799 dal Sig. cavaliere Giuseppe Acerbi Vivacit di giovent, studiosa curiosit, desiderio di singolarizzarsi, trassero il sig. Acerbi allardita impresa di viaggiare sino alla estrema punta settentrionale dEuropa. Il Capo-Nord era cognito per le carte geografiche disegnate...

The Needed Change in the Age of Consent - An Appeal For the Better Protection of Our GirlsGood laws, as a great statesman has said, are for the purpose of making it easy to do right and difficult to do wrong. Such laws protect...

Young MusgraveTouching sacrifice: of thy worldly possessions give all, even to the spoiling of thy goods; for thus teaches our Lord Christ, and our blessed master San Francesco. If a poor person, more poor than thou, would have thy habit, which it is not...

The Charterhouse of Parma, Volume 2 While Fabrizio was in pursuit of love, in a village near Parma, the Fiscal General Rassi, who did not know that he was so near, continued to treat his case as though he had been a Liberal: he...

The Charterhouse of Parma, Volume 1In whom alone survives the spirit of the Sanseverina, to resist tyranny, to unmask intrigue, to encourage ambition, this story of her countrywoman is, in the language of her adopted country, dedicated by In our day, literature quite evidently...

Reglas y consejos sobre investigación científica - (Los tónicos de la voluntad)Como otras muchas oraciones acadmicas harto ms merecedoras de publicidad, este discurso habra quedado olvidado en los anaqueles de las bibliotecas oficiales, si un querido amigo nuestro, el Dr. Lluria, no hubiera tenido...

Daffydowndilly and the Golden TouchThe most popular works of standard authors and poets arranged for use in schools, with introductions, explanatory notes, biographical sketches, portraits, and illustrations. Also elementary stories of nature, myth, history, industry, geography, biography, and literature. The grading suggested has been...

Inside the Russian RevolutionEarly in May, 1917, I went to Russia, eager to see again, in the hour of her deliverance, a country in whose struggle for freedom I had, for a dozen years, been deeply interested. I went to Russia a socialist by...

A régi ház: RegényEste volt. A tl fehren hullott a fldre. A havazson t nagy jegenyk jttek a kocsi el. Ksrtetiesen, lombtalanul jttek a mozdulatlan skon. Mgttk hegyek keltek fl a hban. Kicsiny templomtornyok, hztetk torldtak egyms fl. Elszrt, apr ngyszgek gyulladtak meg. jszaka...