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The Trees of PrideThe Trees of Pride Squire Vane was an elderly schoolboy of English education and Irish extraction. His English education, at one of the great public schools, had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood. But his Irish extraction subconsciously upset...
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The Man Who Knew Too MuchThe Man Who Knew Too Much Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and commons, the horizon of which was fringed with the far-off woods of the famous estate of Torwood Park. He was...
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The Copy-Cat, and Other StoriesThe Copy-Cat, and Other Stories THAT affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became known. Two little boys and a little girl can keep a secretthat is, sometimes. The two little boys had the advantage of the little girl because they could talk over the...
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Eugenie GrandetEugenie Grandet There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the...
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The Rescue: A Romance of the ShallowsThe Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows 'Allas!' quod she, 'that ever this sholde happe! For wende I never, by possibilitee, That swich a monstre or merveille mighte be!' THE FRANKELEYN'S TALE TO FREDERIC COURTLAND PENFIELD LAST AMBASSADOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
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Child of StormChild of Storm For twenty years, I believe I am right in saying, you, as Assistant Secretary for Native Affairs in Natal, and in other offices, have been intimately acquainted with the Zulu people. Moreover, you are one of the few living men who...
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New Grub StreetNew Grub Street As the Milvains sat down to breakfast the clock of Wattleborough parish church struck eight; it was two miles away, but the strokes were borne very distinctly on the west wind this autumn morning. Jasper, listening before he cracked an egg,...
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Dead Men Tell No TalesDead Men Tell No Tales CHAPTER I. LOVE ON THE OCEAN CHAPTER II. THE MYSTERIOUS CARGO CHAPTER III. TO THE WATER'S EDGE CHAPTER IV. THE SILENT SEA CHAPTER V. MY REWARD CHAPTER VI. THE SOLE SURVIVOR CHAPTER VII. I FIND A FRIEND CHAPTER VIII....
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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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