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The Strength of the StrongThe Strength of the StrongOld Long-Beard paused in his narrative, licked his greasy fingers, and wiped them on his naked sides where his one piece of ragged bearskin failed to cover him. Crouched around him, on their hams, were three young men, his grandsons,...
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The Mirror of Kong HoThe Mirror of Kong Ho Estimable barbarian,Your opportune suggestion that I should permit the letters, wherein I have described with undeviating fidelity the customs and manner of behaving of your accomplished race, to be set forth in the form of printed leaves for all...
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The Wallet of Kai LungThe Wallet of Kai Lung Ho, illustrious passers-by! says Kai Lung as he spreads out his embroidered mat under the mulberry-tree. It is indeed unlikely that you could condescend to stop and listen to the foolish words of such an insignificant and altogether deformed...
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The Sea-WolfThe Sea-Wolf I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseths credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed...
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Four Short Stories By Emile ZolaFour Short Stories By Emile Zola At nine oclock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varits was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these...
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The Cask of AmontilladoThe Cask of Amontillado The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to...
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The World Set FreeThe World Set Free The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by...
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Martin EdenMartin Eden Let me live out my years in heat of blood! Let me lie drunken with the dreamers wine! Let me not see this soul-house built of mud Go toppling to the dust a vacant shrine! The one opened the door with a...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdröckhSartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times...
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'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales'Twixt Land & Sea: TalesEver since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic...
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Within the Tides: TalesWithin the Tides: TalesIn the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and...
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The Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human NatureThe Ruling Passion: Tales of Nature and Human Nature In every life worth writing about there is a ruling passion,the very pulse of the machine. Unless you touch that, you are groping around outside of reality. Sometimes it is romantic love: Natures masterpiece of...
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The New MachiavelliThe New Machiavelli Since I came to this place I have been very restless, wasting my energies in the futile beginning of ill-conceived books. One does not settle down very readily at two and forty to a new way of living, and I have...
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Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenExtract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenWell, when I had been dead about thirty years I begun to get a little anxious. Mind you, had been whizzing through space all that time, like a comet. Like a comet! Why, Peters, I laid over the...
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Joe Wilson and His MatesJoe Wilson and His Mates Transcribers Note: This etext was entered twice (manually) and electronically compared, by Alan R. Light This method assures a low rate of errors in the textoften lower than in the original. Special thanks go to Gary M. Johnson, of...
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Rose o' the RiverRose o' the RiverIt was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet. An early ablution of this sort was...
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The PupilThe PupilThe poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to...
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The Night-BornThe Night-Born It was in the old Alta-Inyo Cluba warm night for San Franciscoand through the open windows, hushed and far, came the brawl of the streets. The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest signs that the town was...
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The ProfessorThe Professor This little book was written before either Jane Eyre or Shirley, and yet no indulgence can be solicited for it on the plea of a first attempt. A first attempt it certainly was not, as the pen which wrote it had been...
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The Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the BorderThe Lone Star Ranger: A Romance of the Border It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duaneoutlaw and gunman. But, indeed, Ranger Coffee's story of...
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