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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 03Leaving the service of Madam de Vercellis nearly as I had entered it, I returned to my former hostess, and remained there five or six weeks; during which time health, youth, and laziness, frequently rendered my...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 02The moment in which fear had instigated my flight, did not seem more terrible than that wherein I put my design in execution appeared delightful. To leave my relations, my resources, while yet a child, in...
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The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 01Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all timemust be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and...
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Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1This should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what...
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Tomorrow?To-morrow? "Cras te victurum, cras dicis Postume semper Dic mihi cras istud, Postume quando venit? Quam longe cras istud, ubi est? aut unde petendum? Cras istud quanti dic mihi, possit emi? Cras vives? hodie jam vivere, Postume, serum est Ille sapit, quisquis Postume, vixit...
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Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkLetters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and DenmarkMary Wollstonecraft was born on the 27th of April, 1759. Her fathera quick-tempered and unsettled man, capable of beating wife, or child, or dogwas the son of a manufacturer who made money in Spitalfields,...
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The Life of George BorrowThe Life of George BorrowDuring the whole of Borrows manhood there was probably only one period when he was unquestionably happy in his work and content with his surroundings. He may almost be said to have concentrated into the seven years (18331840) that he...
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The Boys' Life of Mark TwainThe Boys' Life of Mark TwainThis is the story of a boy, born in the humblest surroundings, reared almost without schooling, and amid benighted conditions such as to-day have no existence, yet who lived to achieve a world-wide fame; to attain honorary degrees from...
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Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysComplete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature EssaysThis should be the first thing seen when anyone opens the book. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need about what they...
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My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My First Visit to New England, and Others (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Long before I began the papers which make up this volume, I had meant to write of literary history in New England as I had known it in the lives of its...
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Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Literary Boston as I Knew It (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Among my fellow-passengers on the train from New York to Boston, when I went to begin my work there in 1866, as the assistant editor of the Atlantic Monthly, was the late Samuel Bowles,...
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Oliver Wendell Holmes (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Elsewhere we literary folk are apt to be such a common lot, with tendencies here and there to be a shabby lot; we arrive from all sorts of unexpected holes and corners of the earth, remote, obscure;...
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The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)The White Mr. Longfellow (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)We had expected to stay in Boston only until we could find a house in Old Cambridge. This was not so simple a matter as it might seem; for the ancient town had not yet quickened...
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Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Studies of Lowell (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)I have already spoken of my earliest meetings with Lowell at Cambridge when I came to New England on a literary pilgrimage from the West in 1860. I saw him more and more after I went to...
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Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)Being the wholly literary spirit I was when I went to make my home in Cambridge, I do not see how I could well have been more content if I had found myself in the Elysian Fields with...
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A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)A Belated Guest (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It is doubtful whether the survivor of any order of things finds compensation in the privilege, however undisputed by his contemporaries, of recording his memories of it. This is, in the first two or three instances, a...
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My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)It was in the little office of James T. Fields, over the bookstore of Ticknor & Fields, at 124 Tremont Street, Boston, that I first met my friend of now forty-four years, Samuel L. Clemens. Mr. Fields...
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The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)The Editor's Relations with the Young Contributor (from Literature and Life)One of the trustiest jokes of the humorous paragrapher is that the editor is in great and constant dread of the young contributor; but neither my experience nor my observation bears out his theory...
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A Rebellious HeroineA Rebellious HeroineStuart Harley, despite his authorship of many novels, still considered himself a realist. He affected to say that he did not write his books; that he merely transcribed them from life as he saw it, and he insisted always that he saw...
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Letters to Dead AuthorsLetters to Dead Authors Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the editor's kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a...
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