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The Argonauts of North LibertyThe Argonauts of North Liberty The bell of the North Liberty Second Presbyterian Church had just ceased ringing. North Liberty, Connecticut, never on any day a cheerful town, was always bleaker and more cheerless on the seventh, when the Sabbath sun, after vainly trying...
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The Lion's SkinThe Lion's Skin THE LION'S SKIN CHAPTER I. THE FANATIC CHAPTER II. AT THE ADAM AND EVE CHAPTER III. THE WITNESS CHAPTER IV. Mr. GREEN CHAPTER V. MOONSHINE CHAPTER VI. HORTENSIA'S RETURN CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON CHAPTER VIII. TEMPTATION CHAPTER IX. THE CHAMPION...
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Moby Dick Or, The WhaleMoby Dick; Or, The Whale The pale Usherthreadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of...
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The Guardian AngelThe Guardian Angel It is a quarter of a century since the foregoing Preface was written, and that is long enough to allow a story to be forgotten by the public, and very possibly by the writer of it also. I will not pretend...
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Elsie VennerElsie Venner I have nothing of importance to add to the two preceding Prefaces. The continued call for this story, which was not written for popularity, but with a very serious purpose, has somewhat surprised and, I need not add, gratified me. I can...
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A Mortal AntipathyA Mortal Antipathy Pray, do you remember, when there was an accession to the nursery in which you have a special interest, whether the new-comer was commonly spoken of as a baby? Was it not, on the contrary, invariably, under all conditions, in all...
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Jeff Briggs's Love StoryJeff Briggs's Love Story It was raining and blowing at Eldridge's Crossing. From the stately pine-trees on the hill-tops, which were dignifiedly protesting through their rigid spines upward, to the hysterical willows in the hollow, that had whipped themselves into a maudlin fury, there...
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I and My ChimneyI and My Chimney Though I always say, I and my chimney, as Cardinal Wolsey used to say, I and my King, yet this egotistic way of speaking, wherein I take precedence of my chimney, is hereby borne out by the facts; in everything,...
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Greyfriars BobbyGreyfriars Bobby When the time-gun boomed from Edinburgh Castle, Bobby gave a startled yelp. He was only a little country dogthe very youngest and smallest and shaggiest of Skye terriersbred on a heathery slope of the Pentland hills, where the loudest sound was the...
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The SnareThe Snare THE SNARE CHAPTER I. THE AFFAIR AT TAVORA CHAPTER II. THE ULTIMATUM CHAPTER III. LADY OMOY CHAPTER IV. COUNT SAMOVAL CHAPTER V. THE FUGITIVE CHAPTER VI. MISS ARMYTAGES PEARLS CHAPTER VII. THE ALLY CHAPTER VIII. THE INTELLIGENCE OFFICER CHAPTER IX. THE GENERAL...
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Five TalesFive Tales INDIAN SUMMER OF A FORSYTE is also posted as Etext #2594 [In the present 1919 edition of Five Tales the fifth tale was Indian Summer of a Forsyte; in later collections, Indian Summer... became the first section of the second volume of...
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The Way to PeaceThe Way to Peace ATHALIA HALL stopped to get her breath and look back over the road climbing steeply up from the covered bridge. It was a little after five, and the delicate air of dawn was full of wood and pasture scentsthe sweetness...
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Saint's ProgressSaint's Progress Such a day made glad the heart. All the flags of July were waving; the sun and the poppies flaming; white butterflies spiring up and twining, and the bees busy on the snapdragons. The lime-trees were coming into flower. Tall white lilies...
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Ten Years LaterTen Years Later In the months of March-July in 1844, in the magazine Le Siecle, the first portion of a story appeared, penned by the celebrated playwright Alexandre Dumas. It was based, he claimed, on some manuscripts he had found a year earlier in...
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BurlesquesBurlesques THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., THE TREMENDOUS ADVENTURES OF MAJOR GAHAGAN. In the Morning of Life the Truthful wooed the Beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother's ravishing smile;...
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The Vicar of WakefieldThe Vicar of Wakefield There are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be said to prove them beauties. But it is needless. A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single...
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ZanoniZanoni It is possible that among my readers there may be a few not unacquainted with an old-book shop, existing some years since in the neighbourhood of Covent Garden; I say a few, for certainly there was little enough to attract the many in...
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The Poet at the Breakfast-TableThe Poet at the Breakfast-Table It is now nearly twenty years since this book was published. Being the third of the Breakfast-Table series, it could hardly be expected to attract so much attention as the earlier volumes. Still, I had no reason to be...
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The Professor at the Breakfast-TableThe Professor at the Breakfast-Table This book is one of those which, if it lives for a number of decades, and if it requires any Preface at all, wants a new one every ten years. The first Preface to a book is apt to...
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Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock QuireUnder the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire - A Rural Painting of the Dutch SchoolThis story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted Characters, and...
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