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The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human NatureThe Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature In every life worth writing about there is a ruling passion,the very pulse of the machine. Unless you touch that, you are groping around outside of reality. Sometimes it is romantic love: Natures masterpiece of...
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The New MachiavelliThe New Machiavelli Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have...
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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenExtract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenWell, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the...
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Joe Wilson and His MatesJoe Wilson and His Mates Transcribers Note: This etext was entered twice (manually) and electronically compared, by Alan R. Light This method assures a low rate of errors in the textoften lower than in the original. Special thanks go to Gary M. Johnson, of...
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Rose o' the RiverRose o' the RiverIt was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet. An early ablution of this sort was...
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The PupilThe PupilThe poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to...
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The Night-BornThe Night-Born It was in the old Alta-Inyo Cluba warm night for San Franciscoand through the open windows, hushed and far, came the brawl of the streets. The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was...
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The ProfessorThe Professor This little book was written before either Jane Eyre or Shirley, and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been...
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The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the BorderThe Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duaneoutlaw and gunman. But, indeed, Ranger Coffee's story of...
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The Diary of a NobodyThe Diary of a NobodyWhy should I not publish my diary? I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to seebecause I do not happen to be a Somebodywhy my diary should not be interesting. My...
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The WreckerThe Wrecker PROLOGUE. IN THE MARQUESAS. THE YARN. CHAPTER IA SOUND COMMERCIAL EDUCATION CHAPTER IIROUSSILLON WINE CHAPTER IIITO INTRODUCE MR. PINKERTON CHAPTER IVIN WHICH I EXPERIENCE EXTREMES OF FORTUNE CHAPTER VIN WHICH I AM DOWN ON MY LUCK IN PARIS CHAPTER VIIN WHICH I...
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Bleak HouseBleak HouseA Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice...
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The First Men in the MoonThe First Men in the Moon As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr....
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The Lure of the Dim TrailsThe Lure of the Dim Trails What do you care, anyway? asked Reeve-Howard philosophically. It isn't as if you depended on the work for a living. Why worry over the fact that a mere pastime fails to be financially a success. You don't need...
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Don QuixoteDon Quixote It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project: that of a new edition of Sheltons Don Quixote, which has now become a somewhat scarce book. There are someand I...
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Malbone: An Oldport RomanceMalbone: An Oldport Romance AS one wanders along this southwestern promontory of the Isle of Peace, and looks down upon the green translucent water which forever bathes the marble slopes of the Pirates Cave, it is natural to think of the ten wrecks with...
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Master and ManMaster and Man It happened in the seventies in winter, on the day after St. Nicholass Day. There was a fete in the parish and the innkeeper, Vasili Andreevich Brekhunov, a Second Guild merchant, being a church elder had to go to church, and...
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Father SergiusFather Sergius In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I. and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement...
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The Yates Pride: A RomanceThe Yates Pride: A Romance Opposite Miss Eudora Yatess old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an unmarried sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had...
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Alice AdamsAlice Adams The patient, an old-fashioned man, thought the nurse made a mistake in keeping both of the windows open, and her sprightly disregard of his protests added something to his hatred of her. Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption...
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