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A Study of HawthorneA Study of HawthorneThis book was not designed as a biography, but is rather a portrait. And, to speak more carefully still, it is not so much this, as my conception of what a portrait of Hawthorne should be. For I cannot write with...
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L'Île Des PingouinsL'Île Des PingouinsMalgr la diversit apparente des amusements qui semblent m'attirer, ma vie n'a qu'un objet. Elle est tendue tout entire vers l'accomplissement d'un grand dessein. J'cris l'histoire des Pingouins. J'y travaille assidument, sans me laisser rebuter par des difficults frquentes et qui, parfois,...
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In Exile, and Other StoriesIn Exile, and Other Stories Nicky Dyer and the schoolmistress sat upon the slope of a hill, one of a low range overlooking an arid Californian valley. These sunburnt slopes were traversed by many narrow footpaths, descending, ascending, winding among the tangle of poison-oak...
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The King in YellowThe King in YellowToward the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted during the last months of President Winthrop's administration. The country was apparently tranquil. Everybody knows how the Tariff and Labour questions were...
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Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSpecimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge * * * * * It is nearly fifteen years since I was, for the first time, enabled to become a frequent and attentive visitor in Mr. Coleridge's domestic society. His exhibition of intellectual power...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 12Life on the Mississippi, Part 12.CHAPTER LX. The Head of Navigation.From Roses to Snow.Climatic Vaccination. A Long Ride.Bones of Poverty.The Pioneer of Civilization. Jug of Empire.Siamese Twins.The Sugar-bush.He Wins his Bride. The Mystery about the Blanket.A City that is always a Novelty. Home again....
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 11Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.WE left for St. Louis in the 'City of Baton Rouge,' on a delightfully hot day, but with the main purpose of my visit but lamely accomplished. I had hoped to hunt up and talk with a hundred steamboatmen,...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 10Life on the Mississippi, Part 10.THE largest annual event in New Orleans is a something which we arrived too late to samplethe Mardi-Gras festivities. I saw the procession of the Mystic Crew of Comus there, twenty-four years agowith knights and nobles and so on,...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 9Life on the Mississippi, Part 9.THE approaches to New Orleans were familiar; general aspects were unchanged. When one goes flying through London along a railway propped in the air on tall arches, he may inspect miles of upper bedrooms through the open windows, but...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 8Life on the Mississippi, Part 8.CHAPTER XXXVI. The Professor Spins a Yarn.An Enthusiast in Cattle.He makes a Proposition.Loading Beeves at Acapulco.He was n't Raised to it. He is Roped In.His Dull Eyes Lit Up.Four Aces, you Ass! He does n't Care for the Gores....
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 7Life on the Mississippi, Part 7.CHAPTER XXXI. Mutinous Language.The Dead-house.Cast-iron German and Flexible English.A Dying Man's Confession.I am Bound and Gagged. I get Myself Free.I Begin my Search.The Man with one Thumb. Red Paint and White Paper.He Dropped on his Knees.Fright and Gratitude.I Fled...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 6Life on the Mississippi, Part 6.CHAPTER XXVIII. Swinging down the River.Named for Me.Plum Point again. Lights and Snag Boats.Infinite Changes.A Lawless River. Changes and Jetties.Uncle Mumford Testifies.Pegging the River.What the Government does.The Commission.Men and Theories."Had them Bad."Jews and Prices. TALK began to run upon...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 5Life on the Mississippi, Part 5.CHAPTER XXII. I try the Alias Business.Region of GoateesBoots begin to Appear. The River Man is Missing.The Young Man is Discouraged. Specimen Water.A Fine Quality of Smoke.A Supreme Mistake. We Inspect the Town.Desolation Way-traffic.A Wood-yard. IN due course I...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 4Life on the Mississippi, Part 4.IT was always the custom for the boats to leave New Orleans between four and five o'clock in the afternoon. From three o'clock onward they would be burning rosin and pitch pine (the sign of preparation), and so one...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 3Life on the Mississippi, Part 3.DURING this big rise these small-fry craft were an intolerable nuisance. We were running chute after chute,a new world to me,and if there was a particularly cramped place in a chute, we would be pretty sure to meet a...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 2Life on the Mississippi, Part 2.WHAT with lying on the rocks four days at Louisville, and some other delays, the poor old 'Paul Jones' fooled away about two weeks in making the voyage from Cincinnati to New Orleans. This gave me a chance to...
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Life on the Mississippi, Part 1Life on the Mississippi, Part 1.CHAPTER I. The Mississippi is Well worth Reading about.It is Remarkable. Instead of Widening towards its Mouth, it grows Narrower.It Empties four hundred and six million Tons of Mud.It was First Seen in 1542. It is Older than some...
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The Life of John ClareThe Life of John Clare * * * * * Some forty years ago, the literary world rapturously hailed the appearance of a new poet, brought forward as 'the Northamptonshire Peasant' and 'the English Burns.' There was no limit to the applause bestowed upon...
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Nouveaux Contes à NinonNouveaux Contes à NinonIl y a juste dix ans, ma chre me, que je t'ai cont mes premiers contes. Quels beaux amoureux nous tions alors! J'arrivais de cette terre de Provence, o j'ai grandi si libre, si confiant, si plein de tous les espoirs...
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East and West: PoemsEast and West: PoemsThey ran through the streets of the seaport town; They peered from the decks of the ships that lay: The cold sea-fog that came whitening down Was never as cold or white as they. "Ho, Starbuck and Pinckney and Tenterden! Run...
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