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The Vanished MessengerThe Vanished Messenger There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used in the great...
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The Story of Waitstill BaxterThe Story of Waitstill Baxter FAR, far up, in the bosom of New Hampshire's granite hills, the Saco has its birth. As the mountain rill gathers strength it takes Now it leaves the mountains and flows through green Fryeburg's woods and farms. In the...
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The Survivors of the ChancellorThe Survivors of the ChancellorTHE SURVIVORS OF THE CHANCELLOR was issued in 1875. Shipwrecks occur in other of Verne's tales; but this is his only story devoted wholly to such a disaster. In it the author has gathered all the tragedy, the mystery, and...
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The Club of Queer TradesThe Club of Queer Trades Rabelais, or his wild illustrator Gustave Dore, must have had something to do with the designing of the things called flats in England and America. There is something entirely Gargantuan in the idea of economising space by piling houses...
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A NightmareThe Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare It is very difficult to classify THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY. It is possible to say that it is a gripping adventure story of murderous criminals and brilliant policemen; but it was to be expected that the...
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Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan QuatermainMarie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain The Author hopes that the reader may find some historical interest in the tale set out in these pages of the massacre of the Boer general, Retief, and his companions at the hands...
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Dangerous DaysDangerous Days Natalie Spencer was giving a dinner. She was not an easy hostess. Like most women of futile lives she lacked a sense of proportion, and the small and unimportant details of the service absorbed her. Such conversation as she threw at random,...
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14921492 THE morning was gray and I sat by the sea near Palos in a gray mood. I was Jayme de Marchena, and that was a good, old Christian name. But my grandmother was Jewess, and in corners they said that she never truly...
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The Secret of the NightThe Secret of the Night THE SECRET OF THE NIGHT I. GAYETY AND DYNAMITE II. NATACHA III. THE WATCH IV. "THE YOUTH OF MOSCOW IS DEAD V. BY ROULETABILLES ORDER THE GENERAL PROMENADES VI. THE MYSTERIOUS HAND VII. ARSENATE OF SODA VIII. THE LITTLE...
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The Egoist: A Comedy in NarrativeThe Egoist: A Comedy in NarrativeComedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent...
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The Mystery of the Yellow RoomThe Mystery of the Yellow Room CHAPTER V. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect It is not without a certain emotion that I begin to recount here the extraordinary adventures of Joseph Rouletabille. Down...
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At the Sign of the Cat and RacketAt the Sign of the Cat and Racket Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this...
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When a Man MarriesWhen a Man Marries Chapter I. AT LEAST I MEANT WELL Chapter II. THE WAY IT BEGAN Chapter III. I MIGHT HAVE KNOWN IT Chapter IV. THE DOOR WAS CLOSED Chapter V. FROM THE TREE OF LOVE Chapter VI. A MIGHTY POOR JOKE Chapter...
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The Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's JockThe Tapestried Chamber, and Death of the Laird's Jock This is another little story from The Keepsake of 1828. It was told to me many years ago by the late Miss Anna Seward, who, among other accomplishments that rendered her an amusing inmate in...
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My Aunt Margaret's MirrorMy Aunt Margaret's Mirror The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of ANNUAL, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while...
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The Golden AsseThe Golden Asse And unto the Readers of this Book That I to thee some joyous jests may show in gentle gloze, And frankly feed thy bended eares with passing pleasant prose: So that thou daine in seemly sort this wanton booke to view,...
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Derrick Vaughan, NovelistDerrick Vaughan, Novelist Nothing fills a childs mind like a large old mansion; better if un- or partially occupied; peopled with the spirits of deceased members of the county and Justices of the Quorum. Would I were buried in the peopled solitude of one,...
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The Adventures of Sherlock HolmesThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion...
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Scenes from a Courtesan's LifeScenes from a Courtesan's Life PREPARERS NOTE: The story of Lucien de Rubempre begins in the Lost Illusions trilogy which consists of Two Poets, A Distinguished Provincial at Paris, and Eve and David. The action in Scenes From A Courtesans Life commences directly after...
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The Girl with the Golden EyesThe Girl with the Golden Eyes PREPARERS NOTE: The Girl with the Golden Eyes is the third part of a trilogy. Part one is entitled Ferragus and part two is The Duchesse de Langeais. The three stories are frequently combined under the title The...
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