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Alonzo Fitz, and Other StoriesAlonzo Fitz, and Other Stories It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The town of Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was wanting....
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A Double Barrelled Detective StoryA Double Barrelled Detective Story The first scene is in the country, in Virginia; the time, 1880. There has been a wedding, between a handsome young man of slender means and a rich young girla case of love at first sight and a precipitate...
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The American ClaimantThe American Claimant CHAPTER III. Mrs. Sellers pronounces the colonel the same old scheming, generous, good-hearted, moonshiny, hopeful, no-account failure he always wasHe takes in Danl and JinnyThe colonel originates Pigs in the CloverHe offers one of his art treasures to propitiate SuggsOne-armed Pete;...
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Doctor ThorneDoctor ThorneBefore the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the...
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A Village StradivariusA Village StradivariusGoodfellow, Puck and goblins, Know more than any book. Down with your doleful problems, And court the sunny brook. The south-winds are quick-witted, The schools are sad and slow, The masters quite omitted The lore we care to know. One of Paggernyners...
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The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley WarnerThe Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley WarnerThirty years ago and more those who read and valued good books in this country made the acquaintance of Mr. Warner, and since the publication of "My Summer In a Garden" no work of his has...
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In the WildernessIn the Wilderness So many conflicting accounts have appeared about my casual encounter with an Adirondack bear last summer that in justice to the public, to myself, and to the bear, it is necessary to make a plain statement of the facts. Besides, it...
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The People for Whom Shakespeare WroteThe People for Whom Shakespeare WroteQueen Elizabeth being dead about ten o'clock in the morning, March 24, 1603, Sir Robert Cary posted away, unsent, to King James of Scotland to inform him of the "accident," and got made a baron of the realm for...
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That FortuneThat Fortune On a summer day, long gone among the summer days that come but to go, a lad of twelve years was idly and recklessly swinging in the top of a tall hickory, the advance picket of a mountain forest. The tree was...
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The Golden HouseThe Golden House It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. The situation had its own...
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A Little Journey in the WorldA Little Journey in the World The title naturally suggested for this story was A Dead Soul, but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai GogolDead Soulsthough the motive has nothing in common with that used...
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Washington IrvingWashington Irving EDITOR'S NOTE WASHINGTON IRVING I. PRELIMINARY II. BOYHOOD III. MANHOODFIRST VISIT TO EUROPE IV. SOCIETY AND SALMAGUNDI V. THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD VI. LIFE IN EUROPELITERARY ACTIVITY VII. IN SPAIN VIII. RETURN TO AMERICASUNNYSIDETHE MISSION TO MADRID IX. THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS X. LAST...
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Red EveRed Eve For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side by side, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a means whereby our coasts may be protected from the outrageous flowing surges of the sea (I quote the jurists of...
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Hard CashHard Cash HARD CASH, like The Cloister and the Hearth, is a matter-of-fact Romancethat is, a fiction built on truths; and these truths have been gathered by long, severe, systematic labour, from a multitude of volumes, pamphlets, journals, reports, blue-books, manuscript narratives, letters, and...
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Wessex TalesWessex Tales An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large...
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The Last Chronicle of BarsetThe Last Chronicle of Barsetcan never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors'...
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North of BostonNorth of Boston CONTENTS The Pasture Mending Wall The Death of the Hired Man The Mountain A Hundred Collars Home Burial The Black Cottage Blueberries A Servant to Servants After Apple-picking The Code The Generations of Men The Housekeeper The Fear The Self-seeker The...
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Faust — Part 1Faust — Part 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars...
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A Boy's WillA Boy's Will Part I Into My Own The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world. Ghost House He is happy in society of his choosing. My November Guest He is in love with...
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Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1 I have read Pointed Roofs three times. The first time it came to me with its original wardrobe, a different dress for every mood; and in some places the handwriting of the manuscript clothed the thought with the ragged...
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