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The Invisible Man: A Grotesque RomanceThe Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance The stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking from Bramblehurst railway station, and carrying a little black portmanteau in...
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The Way We Live NowThe Way We Live NowLet the reader be introduced to Lady Carbury, upon whose character and doings much will depend of whatever interest these pages may have, as she sits at her writing-table in her own room in her own house in Welbeck Street....
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Felix O'DayFelix O'Day Broadway on dry nights, or rather that part known as the Great White Way, is a crowded thoroughfare, dominated by lofty buildings, the sky-line studded with constellations of colored signs pencilled in fire. Broadway on wet, rain-drenched nights is the fairy concourse...
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Ayesha, the Return of SheAyesha, the Return of She Verily and indeed it is the unexpected that happens! Probably if there was one person upon the earth from whom the Editor of this, and of a certain previous history, did not expect to hear again, that person was...
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The Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena NotesThe Satyricon — Volume 07: Marchena NotesThe conquests of the French have resulted, during this war, in a boon to knowledge and to letters. Egypt has furnished us with monuments of its aboriginal inhabitants, which the ignorance and superstition of the Copts and Mussulmans...
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Sant' IlarioSant' IlarioTwo years of service in the Zouaves had wrought a change in Anastase Gouache, the painter. He was still a light man, nervously built, with small hands and feet, and a delicate face; but constant exposure to the weather had browned his skin,...
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The Satyricon — CompleteThe Satyricon — Complete Of the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as the...
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The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's NotesThe Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's NotesFornix--An arch. The arcades under the theatres. Pergulae--Balconies, where harlots were shown. Stabulae--Inns, but frequently houses of prostitution. Diversorium--A lodging house; house of assignation. Tugurium--A hut. A very low den. Turturilla--A dove cote; frequently in male part. Casuaria--Road...
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The Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona AffairsThe Satyricon — Volume 05: Crotona Affairs CIRCE TO POLYAENOS--GREETING. Were I a wanton, I should complain of my disappointment, but as it is I am beholden to your impotence, for by it I dallied the longer in the shadow of pleasure. Still, I...
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The Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by SeaThe Satyricon — Volume 04 : Escape by Sea HIS FATE WAS UNAVOIDABLE NO ROCK-HEWN TOMB NOR SCULPTURED MARBLE HIS, HIS NOBLE CORPSE FIVE FEET OF EARTH RECEIVED, HE RESTS IN PEACE BENEATH THIS HUMBLE MOUND. NO ROCK-HEWN TOMB NOR SCULPTURED MARBLE HIS, HIS...
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The Satyricon — Volume 03: Encolpius and His CompanionsThe Satyricon — Volume 03: Encolpius and His CompanionsThere was no torch to light the way for us, as we wandered around, nor did the silence of midnight give promise of our meeting any wayfarer with a light; in addition to this, we were...
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The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of TrimalchioThe Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio NO SLAVE TO LEAVE THE PREMISES WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE MASTER. PENALTY ONE HUNDRED LASHES. WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE MASTER. PENALTY ONE HUNDRED LASHES. TO GAIUS POMPEIUS TRIMALCHIO AUGUSTAL, SEVIR FROM CINNAMUS HIS STEWARD. ......Buy Now...
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The Satyricon — Volume 01: IntroductionThe Satyricon — Volume 01: IntroductionOf the many masterpieces which classical antiquity has bequeathed to modern times, few have attained, at intervals, to such popularity; few have so gripped the interest of scholars and men of letters, as has this scintillating miscellany known as...
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The Golden Lion of GranpereThe Golden Lion of Granpere THE GOLDEN LION OF GRANPERE, BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE. CHAPTER I. Up among the Vosges mountains in Lorraine, but just outside the old half-German province of Alsace, about thirty miles distant from the new and thoroughly French baths of Plombires,...
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MetamorphosisMetamorphosis One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and...
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Their Mariposa Legend: A Romance of Santa CatalinaTheir Mariposa Legend: A Romance of Santa Catalina It began to happen a long time ago, centuries ago, when, in a fragrant rush of rain, spring came one day to Punagwandah, fairest of the Channel Islands. Beneath the golden mists of sunrise danced a...
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Cape Cod StoriesCape Cod Stories I don't exactly know why Cap'n Jonadab and me went to the post-office that night; we wa'n't expecting any mail, that's sartin. I guess likely we done it for the reason the feller that tumbled overboard went to the bottom'twas the...
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The Ivory TrailThe Ivory TrailGreen, ah greener than emeralds are, tree-tops beckon the dhows to land, White, oh whiter than diamonds are, blue waves burst on the amber sand, And nothing is fairer than Zanzibar from the Isles o' the West to the Marquesand. I was...
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Miss Minerva and William Green HillMiss Minerva and William Green Hill The bus drove up to the gate and stopped under the electric street-light. Perched on the box by the big, black negro driver sat a little boy whose slender figure was swathed in a huge rain coat. Mercy...
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A SirenA SirenIt was Carnival time in the ancient and once imperial, but now provincial and remote, city of Ravenna. It was Carnival time, and the very acme and high-tide of that season of mirth and revel. For the theory of Carnival observance is, that...
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