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William Tell Told AgainWilliam Tell Told Again [Transcriber's note: William Tell Told Again is two children's books in one. One is a picture book--16 full-color illustrations by Philip Dadd described in verse by John W. Houghton. The other is a humorous novel by P. G. Wodehouse, based...
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Tom Cringle's LogTom Cringle's Log Dazzled by the glories of Trafalgar, I, Thomas Cringle, one fine morning in the merry month of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and so and so, magnanimously determined in my own mind, that the United Kingdom of Great...
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CardelloCardelloDavanti al magazzino da lui preso in affitto, una folla di ragazzi faceva ressa per vedere i preparativi delle rappresentazioni, quantunque il portone socchiuso non permettesse di scorgere quel che colui stava ad armeggiare l dentro. Si udivano frequenti picchi di martello, stridori di...
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Monsieur Bergeret à Paris: Histoire ContemporaineMonsieur Bergeret à Paris: Histoire ContemporaineM. Bergeret tait table et prenait son repas modique du soir; Riquet tait couch ses pieds sur un coussin de tapisserie. Riquet avait l'me religieuse et rendait l'homme des honneurs divins. Il tenait son matre pour trs bon et...
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The History of PendennisThe History of Pendennis If this kind of composition, of which the two years product is now laid before the public, fail in art, as it constantly does and must, it at least has the advantage of a certain truth and honesty, which a...
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Le Mariage de LotiLe Mariage de LotiLoti, qui, jusqu' ce jour, s'tait appel Harry Grant, conserva ce nom, tant sur les registres de l'tat civil que sur les rles de la marine royale, mais l'appellation de Loti fut gnralement adopte par ses amis. Les trois Tahitiennes taient...
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The Gift of the MagiThe Gift of the Magi One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until ones cheeks burned...
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Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a PoliticianSweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician Josiah and me got to talkin' it over. He said it wuzn't right to think more of one child than you did of another. And I says, That is so, Josiah. And he says, Then,...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 9A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 9.However, my attention was suddenly snatched from such matters; our child began to lose ground again, and we had to go to sitting up with her, her case became so serious. We couldn't bear to allow...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 8A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 8.Londonto a slavewas a sufficiently interesting place. It was merely a great big village; and mainly mud and thatch. The streets were muddy, crooked, unpaved. The populace was an ever flocking and drifting swarm of rags,...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 7A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 7.Well, when that cargo arrived toward sunset, Saturday afternoon, I had my hands full to keep the Marcos from fainting. They were sure Jones and I were ruined past help, and they blamed themselves as accessories...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 3.Straight off, we were in the country. It was most lovely and pleasant in those sylvan solitudes in the early cool morning in the first freshness of autumn. From hilltops we saw fair green valleys lying...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 6.About bedtime I took the king to my private quarters to cut his hair and help him get the hang of the lowly raiment he was to wear. The high classes wore their hair banged across...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 2A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 2.Inasmuch as I was now the second personage in the Kingdom, as far as political power and authority were concerned, much was made of me. My raiment was of silks and velvets and cloth of gold,...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 5.Saturday noon I went to the well and looked on a while. Merlin was still burning smoke-powders, and pawing the air, and muttering gibberish as hard as ever, but looking pretty down-hearted, for of course he...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4.Madame, seeing me pacific and unresentful, no doubt judged that I was deceived by her excuse; for her fright dissolved away, and she was soon so importunate to have me give an exhibition and kill somebody,...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 1A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 1. The ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical, and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in...
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Men, Women, and BoatsMen, Women, and Boats A Number of the tales and sketches here brought together appear now for the first time between covers; others for the first time between covers in this country. All have been gathered from out-of-print volumes and old magazine files. "The...
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Rujub, the JugglerRujub, the Juggler Rujub, the Juggler, is mainly an historical tale for young and old, dealing with the Sepoy Mutiny, in India, during the years 1857 to 1859. This famous mutiny occurred while the reins of British rule in India were in the hands...
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PanPan Between Hunger and Growth of the Soil lies the time generally allotted to a generation, but at first glance the two books seem much farther apart. One expresses the passionate revolt of a homeless wanderer against the conventional routine of modern life. The...
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