English Literature
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Silas MarnerSilas Marner In the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhousesand even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-lace, had their toy spinning-wheels of polished oakthere might be seen in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of...
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The Thirty-Nine StepsThe Thirty-Nine Steps You and I have long cherished an affection for that elemental type of tale which Americans call the dime novel and which we know as the shockerthe romance where the incidents defy the probabilities, and march just inside the borders of...
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The Unbearable BassingtonThe Unbearable BassingtonFrancesca Bassington sat in the drawing-room of her house in Blue Street, W., regaling herself and her estimable brother Henry with China tea and small cress sandwiches. The meal was of that elegant proportion which, while ministering sympathetically to the desires of...
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Tales of Terror and MysteryTales of Terror and Mystery The idea that the extraordinary narrative which has been called the Joyce-Armstrong Fragment is an elaborate practical joke evolved by some unknown person, cursed by a perverted and sinister sense of humour, has now been abandoned by all who...
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A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary StudyA. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary StudyIt is just eleven years since Kinglake passed away, and his life has not yet been separately memorialized. A few years more, and the personal side of him would be irrecoverable, though by personality, no less than...
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An Inland VoyageAn Inland VoyageTo equip so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid,...
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Travels with a Donkey in the CevennesTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesThe journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan...
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Youth, a NarrativeYouth, a Narrative This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speakthe sea entering into the life of most men, and the men knowing something or everything about the sea, in the way of amusement, of travel,...
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Ann Veronica: A Modern Love StoryAnn Veronica: A Modern Love Story The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge. ANN VERONICA CHAPTER THE FIRST CHAPTER THE SECOND...
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The End of the TetherThe End of the Tether For a long time after the course of the steamer Sofala had been altered for the land, the low swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed...
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Heart of DarknessHeart of DarknessThe Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come...
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson CrusoeThe Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good...
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 3The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 In the following narrative, I have endeavoured to give as nearly as possible the ipsissima verba of the valued friend from whom I received it, conscious that any aberration from HER mode of telling the tale of her...
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 2The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 The following paper is written in a female hand, and was no doubt communicated to my much-regretted friend by the lady whose early history it serves to illustrate, the Countess D. She is no moreshe long since died,...
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The Purcell Papers — Volume 1The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 A noble Huguenot family, owning considerable property in Normandy, the Le Fanus of Caen, were, upon the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, deprived of their ancestral estates of Mandeville, Sequeville, and Cresseron; but, owing to their possessing...
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Adam BedeAdam Bede With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the end...
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Tracks of a Rolling StoneTracks of a Rolling StoneThe First Edition of this book was written, from beginning to end, in the short space of five months, without the aid of diary or notes, beyond those cited as such from a former work. The Author, having no expectation...
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Amy FosterAmy Foster Kennedy is a country doctor, and lives in Colebrook, on the shores of Eastbay. The high ground rising abruptly behind the red roofs of the little town crowds the quaint High Street against the wall which defends it from the sea. Beyond...
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To-morrowTo-morrow What was known of Captain Hagberd in the little seaport of Colebrook was not exactly in his favour. He did not belong to the place. He had come to settle there under circumstances not at all mysterioushe used to be very communicative about...
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Falk: A ReminiscenceFalk: A Reminiscence Several of us, all more or less connected with the sea, were dining in a small river-hostelry not more than thirty miles from London, and less than twenty from that shallow and dangerous puddle to which our coasting men give the...
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