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Ringan Gilhaize, or, The CovenantersRingan Gilhaize, or, The CovenantersThere have, of course, been many men of genius who have united with great laxity and waywardness in their lives a high and perfect respect for their art; but instances of the directly contrary practice are much rarer, and among...
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The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 05In the volume now in your hands, the authors have touched upon that ugly devil of crime, with which it is your glory to have contended. It were a waste of ink to do...
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The Last StrawThe Last Straw"There's absolutely nothing we can pin it down to with any real certainty," Kessler said. "No mechanical defects that we're sure of, no sabotage we can put our finger on, no murder or suicide schemes, nothing! We've put that plane back together...
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Clark's FieldClark's FieldThe other day I happened to be in the town where I was born and not far from the commonplace house in the humbler quarter of the town where my parents were living at the time of my birth, half a century and...
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The Fate of Felix BrandThe Fate of Felix BrandFelix Brand awoke with a start and looked about him with a puzzled stare. And yet there was nothing unfamiliar in what met his gaze. The bed wherein he lay and its luxurious appointments were of his own recent buying....
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The Son of His MotherThe Son of His MotherThe husband and wife were of a literary turn of mind, and as they had the money to cultivate their artistic tastes he wrote a little and she painted. They also played and sang duets together, at least they had...
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AbsolutionAbsolution"The rats! Ugh, the rats!" cried beautiful Mrs. Tiralla, as she stood in the cellar with her maid. They had gone down to fetch some of the pickled cabbage from the tub in the corner in order to cook it, and the maid was...
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Fathers and SonsFathers and ChildrenIvan Sergyevitch Turgenev came of an old stock of the Russian nobility. He was born in Orel, in the province of Orel, which lies more than a hundred miles south of Moscow, on October 28, 1818. His education was begun by tutors...
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Captain Pott's MinisterCaptain Pott's MinisterThe sound of voices suddenly arrested Captain Potts fork in mid-air, and the morsel of untasted salt-mackerel dangled uncertainly from the points of the dingy tines as he swung about to face the open door. Fork and mackerel fell to the floor...
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Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 02Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 02 There was a criminal in a cart Agoing to be hanged Reprieve to him was granted; The crowd and cart did stand, To see if he would marry a wife, Or, otherwise, choose to...
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The Record of Nicholas FreydonThe Record of Nicholas Freydon - An AutobiographyIt would ill become any writer to adopt an apologetic tone in introducing the work of another pen than his own, and indeed I have no thought of apologia where Nicholas Freydon's writing is concerned. On the...
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Fantôme d'OrientFantôme d'OrientMinuit, aprs une frache soire de fin septembre o dj un peu d'automne s'annonce. Du silence partout. Dans ma maison familiale paisiblement endormie, je reste seul veill, l'esprit en grand trouble d'anxit et d'attente. Depuis tantt deux heures, je me suis retir chez...
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Aces UpAces UpTex Yancey, called The Flying Fool by his comrades in the th Pursuit Squadron of the American Expeditionary Force, entered the mess hall with lips pressed into a thin, mirthless grin that seemed entirely inappropriate in one who was thirty minutes late to...
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Sir TomSir TomSir Thomas Randolph had lived a somewhat stormy life during the earliest half of his career. He had gone through what the French called a jeunesse orageuse; nothing very bad had ever been laid to his charge; but he had been adventurous, unsettled,...
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The Brass BottleThe Brass BottleAs he sat at the window of his office in Great Cloister Street, Westminster, he made his thoughts travel back to a certain glorious morning in August which now seemed so remote and irrecoverable. At this precise time he was waiting on...
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Mr. Chipfellow's JackpotMr. Chipfellow's JackpotHis words were an indirect answer to a question from Carter Hagen, his attorney. The two men were standing in an open glade, some distance from Sam Chipfellow's mansion at Chipfellow's Folly, this being the name Sam himself had attached to his...
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Daisy's Necklace, and What Came of ItDaisy's Necklace, and What Came of ItI have attempted to describe, in an auto-biographical sort of way, a well-meaning, but somewhat vain young gentleman, who, having flirted desperately with the Magazines, takes it into his silly head to write a novel, all the chapters...
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Dal primo piano alla soffittaDal primo piano alla soffittaQualunque spettacolo ci fosse sul Canal Grande, sera sicuri di veder folla in palazzo Bollati. Figuriamoci poi quanta gente saspettasse quella domenica 7 ottobre 1838 in cui ci doveva essere la regata in onore di S. M. Ferdinando I, venuto...
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Callista : a Tale of the Third CenturyCallista : a Tale of the Third Century To you alone, who have known me so long, and who love me so well, could I venture to offer a trifle like this. But you will recognise the author in his work, and take pleasure...
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The Story of a New York HouseThe Story of a New York House"I hear," said Mrs. Abram Van Riper, seated at her breakfast-table, and watching the morning sunlight dance on the front of the great Burrell house on the opposite side of Pine Street, "that the Dolphs are going to...
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