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First love, and other storiesThe novel First Love was Turgnieffs favourite work, as he more than once confessed. What the author prized in this purely intimate but beautifully finished story was its fidelity to actuality; that is to say, he prized the personal recollections...

The eleventh hour in the life of Julia Ward HoweThe acorns are again ripe on your oaks, the leaves of your nut tree begin to turn gold, the fruit trees you planted a lustre since, droop with their weight of crimson fruit, the little...

New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the FutureIt is small wonder that the perusal of that hitherto, in my eyes, immaculate magazine, the Nineteenth Century, affords me less pleasure than usual. There may possibly be some articles in it both worth reading and worth remembering,...

The History of Mary I, Queen of England - as found in the public records, despatches of ambassadors, in original private letters, and other contemporary documentsAt a time when prejudiced historical verdicts are being largely revised, and when it is universally admitted that history...

Föld felett és viz alatt; A véres kenyér; A szegénység utjaAz els azt bizonytja, hogy ez a darab fld gy tpllja a fiait, mintha kutykat dajklna; a msodik az rdg szmra foglalja azt le, a harmadik, a kirlygyertya, tn onnan vette nevezett, hogy a...

Psychology and parenthoodThe chief aim of this informal handbook for parents is to review and unify, in non-technical language, the findings of modern psychology which bear especially on the laws of mental and moral growth. The time has come when it is not only...

Minerva's Manoeuvres: The Cheerful Facts of a "Return to Nature"When a play makes a tremendous hit the author is called before the curtain and after bowing and allowing his heart (and his head) to swell more and more, he generously points to the actors...

Der Pfefferkuchenbäcker und LebküchlerDie Lebkchnereien bilden zwar ein eigenes Gewerbe, es giebt jedoch kaum eine Konditorei und Bckerei, wo nicht ebenfalls Lebkuchen gefertigt werden. Da es bei Letzteren mehr Nebengewerbe ist, so fehlt es oft an den erforderlichen Kenntnissen in der Bearbeitung und an...

Tales from GorkyWe should not give very much for the chances of a poor friendless lad of feeble constitution, vagrant disposition, and an overpowering taste for excitement, who should be turned adrift to shift for himself at an age when most young lads are...

The Art of Being Happy - In a Series of Letters from a Father to His Children: with Observations and CommentsThere are about seventy Notes at the back of the book. These are referenced in the text by a numeric anchor eg [1] or...

The Boy Traders; Or, The Sportsman's Club Among the BoersOh, she is good for a dozen battles like the one she has just passed through, continued Uncle Dick, encouragingly. Give me a tight craft, a good crew, and plenty of elbow-room, and I would...

Haapaniemen keinu: Kuvauksia sydänmaan kylästäKanteleen naapuritorpassa Ristolassa olivat kylnluvut. Tupa oli vke tynn, pydn takana seisoi pappi, tyynen, totisena, virsikirja kdess. Hnen edessn pydll olivat kirkonkirjat. Selvll nell hn mrsi virren ja khesti sen aloitti lukkari. Kuulijakunta muodosti tasaisen kaarevan seinn, rajoittaen sit tyhj...

Enllà: Poesies Title: Enll Subtitle: Poesies Author: Joan Maragall Release Date: March 29, 2018 [EBook #56866] Language: Catalan Credits: Produced by Nahum Maso i Carcases, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public...

Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and NormanFor the student, as well as for those desultory readers who are drawn by the rare fascination of London to peruse its pages, this book will have a value and a charm which are unsurpassed by any of...

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 17, February, 1921 - America's Magazine of Wit, Humor and FilosophyAlong about the first of September last year, my cellar supply gave out and on the second day I had a look of languor like a homesick...

Onkel Toms HytteEndda det var bidende koldt ude, som det kan vre paa en vinterdag i Kentucky[1], var det lunt inde i den hyggelige dagligstuen. Her sad gaardens eier, herr Shelby, og en fremmed mand ved et bord med sine vinglas fremfor sig. De...

Market Harborough, and Inside the BarMost men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is...

Gambolling with Galatea: a Bucolic Romance Fair reader (and unfair one, of either sex), I pray you be not dismayed by the profundity of this discourse. Doubtless there are some light-minded observers who would have seen in the natural phenomena herein recorded the very...

The Conquest of Plassans (La Conquête de Plassans)With the end of the century there has come in France a great revival of the struggle between religion and free thought which has so long been waged there; and the stupendous effort put forth by the...

La "National Gallery"LA NATIONAL GALLERY nest peut-tre pas lun des plus importants muses dEurope, mais elle est coup sr lun des plus intressants. Dautres sont plus riches en tableaux mondialement clbres: Amsterdam senorgueillit de ses Rembrandt, le Prado de ses Velazquez, lAcadmie de Venise...