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The Return of Tarzan Oh, nothing at all, my dear, replied the countess, a slight flush momentarily coloring her already pink cheek. I was but recalling with admiration those stupendous skyscrapers, as they call them, of New York, and the fair countess settled herself...

The Online World ********************* * THE ONLINE WORLD * ********************* By Odd de Presno 4815 Saltrod, Norway (Europe) Voice (registrations only): +47 370 31204 Internet mail: opresno@extern.uio.no Data/BBS: +47 370 31204 FAX: +47 370 27111 PREFACE ======= This is the ASCII online distribution of...

Terminal Compromise INTER.PACT Press 11511 Pine St. Seminole, FL 34642 Since it was first published in conventional print form, (ISBN: 0-962-87000-5) it has sold extremely well world-wide, but then again, it never hit the New York Times Bestseller List either. But that's OK, not...

Tarzan of the Apes I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own...

The House of the Seven Gables When a writer calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to its fashion and material, which he would not have felt himself entitled to assume...

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn CHAPTER I. Civilizing Huck.Miss Watson.Tom Sawyer Waits. CHAPTER II. The Boys Escape Jim.Torn Sawyers Gang.Deep-laid Plans. CHAPTER III. A Good Going-over.Grace Triumphant.One of Tom Sawyerss Lies. CHAPTER IV. Huck and the Judge.Superstition. CHAPTER V. Hucks Father.The Fond Parent.Reform. CHAPTER VI....

E-mail 101If you like those little machines that give you 24 hour access to your bank account, you'll love the Internet. I suppose there are still people who, given a choice, will go to a drive-through teller just so they can deal with a...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but...

The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting. As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and...

Thuvia, Maid of Mars Upon a massive bench of polished ersite beneath the gorgeous blooms of a giant pimalia a woman sat. Her shapely, sandalled foot tapped impatiently upon the jewel-strewn walk that wound beneath the stately sorapus trees across the scarlet sward of...

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience I heartily accept the motto,That government is best which governs least; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believeThat government is...

What Is Man? and Other Essays [The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing. The Old Man had asserted that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more. The Young Man objected, and asked him to go into particulars and...

The 32nd Mersenne Prime - Predicted by MersenneIn honor of Andrew Wiles' proof of the theorem known as "Fermat's Last Theorem" stated 350 years agobut unproven until this week (February, 1993). [Fermat's thoughts on primes did not fare so well, however. A prime number...

The warlord of Mars In the shadows of the forest that flanks the crimson plain by the side of the Lost Sea of Korus in the Valley Dor, beneath the hurtling moons of Mars, speeding their meteoric way close above the bosom of the...

The Black Experience in America This text is claimed under copyright to protect its integrity, and therefore you are required to pass it on intact, but you may make changes to your own copy. This text may be shared in whole or in part...

The Dawn of Amateur Radio in the U.K. and Greece: A Personal View Thales, who was born in 640 B.C., was a man of exceptional wisdom and one of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece. He was the father of Greek, and consequently of...

The Gods of Mars Twelve years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond. Often had I pondered on the...

The Number "e"Below is the value of 'e' to about 100,000 places, computed on the NCSA Cray Y-MP using the Brent multiple precision routines (published as Algorithm 524 in the March 1978 issue of Transactions on Mathematical Software). The method used was to compute...

A Princess of Mars My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my fathers home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the civil war. I was then a child of but five years, yet I well...

The Communist Manifesto A spectre is haunting Europethe spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the party in opposition...