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David Balfour - Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular...

Quatre contes de Prosper MériméeProsper Mrime was born in Paris, on the 28th of September, 1803, and died at Cannes, on the 23d of September, 1870. His grandfather on his father's side was a lawyer, his father a professor at the cole des Beaux-Arts....

The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord TennysonTo those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those poems written and published by him during his active literary career, and ultimately rejected as unsatisfactory....

Die Frauenfrage: ihre geschichtliche Entwicklung und wirtschaftliche SeiteAuf Grund vieljhriger Arbeit habe ich den Versuch unternommen, die Frauenfrage in ihrem ganzen Umfang einer Darstellung zu unterziehen. Meinen Ausgangspunkt bezeichnet das fr ihr Verstndnis entscheidende Moment der wirtschaftlichen Lage der Frau. Von welcher Seite man...

Les Portes de l'EnferAssis dans un large fauteuil prs de la chemine, les coudes aux genoux, les mains tendues au feu, il parlait d'une voix lente, s'arrtant brusquement pour murmurer: Oui oui, comme s'il avait eu besoin de reconnatre ses souvenirs et d'approuver sa...

Lady Byron Vindicated - A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present timeThe subject of this volume is of such painful notoriety that any apology from the Publishers may seem unnecessary upon issuing the Authors reply to the...

La Daniella, Vol. II.Je suis vraiment ici le plus heureux des hommes, et je sens bien que ce sont l les plus beaux jours de ma vie. Chaque moment augmente ma passion pour cette adorable femme qui, bien rellement, ne respire que pour moi....

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873As I parted from my stout old friend Joliet, I saw him turn to empty the last half of our bottle into the glasses of a couple of tired soldiers who were...

Mimmi Paavaliina: 4-näytöksinen huvinäytelmäMimmi Paavaliina, neitsyt. Kriitliisa, Mimmi Paavaliinan tytr, 1/2-vuotias. Ipu " " poika, 4- " Emstiina " " tytr, 8- " Efreitti " " poika, 12- " Liinu " " tytr, 17- " Jaferi " " poika, 19- " Juho Kapine, isntmies....

Almoran and Hamet: An Oriental TaleAmidst the congratulations and praises of a free, a joyful, and now united people, people, who are ambitious to express their duty and their wishes in their various classes; I think myself happy to have Your Majesty's most gracious...

Kitty TrenireOn such an afternoon, when all the rest of the world lay in the fierce glare of the scorching sun, who could blame the children for choosing to perch themselves on the old garden wall, where it was so cool, and shady, and...

The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From WomenIndeed we the Ladies of Pleasures, and those that stile themselves Procurers in Love Affairs, highly resent the late Paper put out against our Profession and bespattering of us for using only our own; but since it...

The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from MenI am in a little pain lest the Title shou'd give Offence to some, whom I am unwilling to disoblige; yet I hope be more Judicious, when they see the design will allow it both their Pardon...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873Behold me, then, with five hours around my neck, like so many millstones, in Strasburg, on the abjured Rhine! Had I not vowed never to visit that bewitched current again? Was it...

The Pocket George Borrow - Passages chosen from the works of George BorrowWhen a man has read once, or twice, or three times, through Borrows books, he will probably dip into them here and there at intervals. By so doing he gradually makes his...

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876Compress it as you may, this globe of ours remains quite a bulky affair. The world in little is not reducible to a microscopic point. The nations collected to show their riches,...

The Mysterious RiderA September sun, losing some of its heat if not its brilliance, was dropping low in the west over the black Colorado range. Purple haze began to thicken in the timbered notches. Gray foothills, round and billowy, rolled down from the higher...

Secret Chambers and Hiding Places - Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. The secret chamber is unrivalled even by the haunted house for the mystery and romance surrounding it. Volumes have been written about the haunted house, while...

La Daniella, Vol. I.Ce que nous allons transcrire sera, pour le lecteur, un roman et un voyage, soit un voyage pendant un roman, soit un roman durant un voyage. Pour nous, c'est une histoire relle; car c'est le rcit, crit par lui-mme, d'une demi-anne...

The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Volume 4 (of 7)LETTER I. Miss Byron to Miss Selby. A tenth letter from Dr. Bartlett: Description of a formal visit Sir Charles Grandison paid to the whole of the Porretta family assembled: their different characters clearly displayed...