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Le nabab, tome ILe nabab, tome I_Comme il y a des personnes qui ne sauraient lire sans faire des applications des caractres vicieux ou ridicules qu'elles trouvent dans les ouvrages, je dclare ces lecteurs malins qu'ils auraient tort d'appliquer les portraits qui sont dans le prsent livre....
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The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old CaliforniaThe Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old CaliforniaWithin memory of the most gnarled and coffee-coloured Montereo never had there been so exciting a race day. All essential conditions seemed to have held counsel and agreed to combine. Not a wreath of fog floated across...
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StukStukDet var Skumring endnu, og over Parken og Skt. Peders Mlle hvilede det graablaa sidste Skr af Dag. Men langs Gaden var der allerede tndt, og Lygter og alle Butikers Blus lyste ud over Vrimlen. Lig en hel Arm strmmede Arbejderne langs Fortovene ud...
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DorianDorianDorian Trent was going to town to buy himself a pair of shoes. He had some other errands to perform for himself and his mother, but the reason for his going to town was the imperative need of shoes. It was Friday afternoon. The...
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ChristineChristineMy daughter Christine, who wrote me these letters, died at a hospital in Stuttgart on the morning of August 8th, 1914, of acute double pneumonia. I have kept the letters private for nearly three years, because, apart from the love in them that made...
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Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar PeopleChildren of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar PeopleThe issue of a one-volume edition gives me the opportunity of thanking the public and the critics for their kindly reception of this chart of a terra incognita, and of restoring the original sub-title, which...
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Personality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, JockPersonality Plus: Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock When men began to build cities vertically instead of horizontally there passed from our highways a picturesque figure, and from our language an expressive figure of speech. That oily-tongued, persuasive, soft-stepping stranger in...
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The House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, ClairvoyantThe House of Mystery: An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant In a Boston and Albany parlor-car, east bound through the Berkshires, sat a young man respectfully, but intently studying a young woman. Now and then, from the newspapers heaped in...
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The Pretty LadyThe Pretty Lady"Virtue has never yet been adequately represented by any who have had any claim to be considered virtuous. It is the sub-vicious who best understand virtue. Let the virtuous people stick to describing vicewhich they can do well enough." The piece was...
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A Spinner in the SunA Spinner in the SunThe little house was waiting, as it had waited for many years. Grey and weather-worn, it leaned toward the sheltering hillside as though to gather from the kindly earth some support and comfort for old age. Five-and-twenty Winters had broken...
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MarriageMarriage"Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessitiesin the performance of daily dutiesin the removal of small inconveniencesin the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as...
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Consuelo, Tome 1 (1861)Consuelo, Tome 1 (1861)Ce long roman de Consuelo, suivi de la Comtesse de Rudolstadt et accompagn, lors de sa publication dans la Revue indpendante, de deux notices sur Jean Ziska et Procope le Grand, forme un tout assez important comme apprciation et rsum de...
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The Vertical CityThe Vertical CityBy that same architectural gesture of grief which caused Jehan at Agra to erect the Taj Mahal in memory of a dead wife and a cold hearthstone, so the Bon Ton hotel, even to the pillars with red-freckled monoliths and peacock-backed lobby...
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The Roll-CallThe Roll-CallIn the pupils' room of the offices of Lucas & Enwright, architects, Russell Square, Bloomsbury, George Edwin Cannon, an articled pupil, leaned over a large drawing-board and looked up at Mr. Enwright, the head of the firm, who with cigarette and stick was...
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Spanish DoubloonsSpanish DoubloonsNever had life seemed more fair and smiling than at the moment when Aunt Jane's letter descended upon me like a bolt from the blue. The fact is, I was taking a vacation from Aunt Jane. Being an orphan, I was supposed to...
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A Happy BoyA Happy Boy"A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjornson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfectly artless simplicity...
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The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808)Daniel De Foe was descended from a respectable family in the county of Northampton, and born in London, about the year 1663. His father, James Foe, was a butcher, in the parish of St. Giless, Cripplegate, and...
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Contes d'AmériqueContes d'AmériqueBah! subissons encore cette petite corve et nous aurons, en revanche, le plaisir d'entrevoir Mlles Kate et Lizzie L'une d'elles, je crois, ne dplat pas celui de nous qui ne lui prfre pas sa soeur? Tout rappelle l'Allemagne, du reste, dans cette rgion...
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Around Old Bethany: A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary DavisAround Old Bethany: A Story of the Adventures of Robert and Mary DavisThis small volume was first published in the year of 1925, but it has been out of print for many years. The present reprint edition is in response to requests for it...
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Lyhyitä kertomuksiaLyhyitä kertomuksiaHn oli kyln lemmikki. Vanhat hnt suosivat, nuoret hnt ihaelivat ja lapset hnt ystvnns rakastivat. Ei ollut aatetta niin ylev, jot'ei sydmens olisi omistanut, ei mr niin korkeata, jonka saavuttamisesta olisi epillyt. Poikana heilui hn korkeimpien puiden latva-oksilla, nuorukaisena taisteli hn metsn vkevin...
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