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That FortuneThat Fortune On a summer day, long gone among the summer days that come but to go, a lad of twelve years was idly and recklessly swinging in the top of a tall hickory, the advance picket of a mountain forest. The tree was...
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The Golden HouseThe Golden House It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. The situation had its own...
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A Little Journey in the WorldA Little Journey in the World The title naturally suggested for this story was A Dead Soul, but it was discarded because of the similarity to that of the famous novel by Nikolai GogolDead Soulsthough the motive has nothing in common with that used...
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Washington IrvingWashington Irving EDITOR'S NOTE WASHINGTON IRVING I. PRELIMINARY II. BOYHOOD III. MANHOODFIRST VISIT TO EUROPE IV. SOCIETY AND SALMAGUNDI V. THE KNICKERBOCKER PERIOD VI. LIFE IN EUROPELITERARY ACTIVITY VII. IN SPAIN VIII. RETURN TO AMERICASUNNYSIDETHE MISSION TO MADRID IX. THE CHARACTERISTIC WORKS X. LAST...
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Red EveRed Eve For five long but not unhappy years, seated or journeying side by side, we have striven as Royal Commissioners to find a means whereby our coasts may be protected from the outrageous flowing surges of the sea (I quote the jurists of...
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Hard CashHard Cash HARD CASH, like The Cloister and the Hearth, is a matter-of-fact Romancethat is, a fiction built on truths; and these truths have been gathered by long, severe, systematic labour, from a multitude of volumes, pamphlets, journals, reports, blue-books, manuscript narratives, letters, and...
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Wessex TalesWessex Tales An apology is perhaps needed for the neglect of contrast which is shown by presenting two consecutive stories of hangmen in such a small collection as the following. But in the neighbourhood of county-towns tales of executions used to form a large...
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The Last Chronicle of BarsetThe Last Chronicle of Barsetcan never bring myself to believe it, John," said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors'...
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North of BostonNorth of Boston CONTENTS The Pasture Mending Wall The Death of the Hired Man The Mountain A Hundred Collars Home Burial The Black Cottage Blueberries A Servant to Servants After Apple-picking The Code The Generations of Men The Housekeeper The Fear The Self-seeker The...
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Faust — Part 1Faust — Part 1Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two million dollars...
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A Boy's WillA Boy's Will Part I Into My Own The youth is persuaded that he will be rather more than less himself for having forsworn the world. Ghost House He is happy in society of his choosing. My November Guest He is in love with...
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Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1Pointed Roofs: Pilgrimage, Volume 1 I have read Pointed Roofs three times. The first time it came to me with its original wardrobe, a different dress for every mood; and in some places the handwriting of the manuscript clothed the thought with the ragged...
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A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs — Troisième partieA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs — Troisième partie Une fois M. de Charlus parti, nous pmes enfin, Robert et moi, aller dner chez Bloch. Or je compris pendant cette petite fte que les histoires trop facilement trouves drles par notre camarade taient...
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A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs — Deuxième partieA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs — Deuxième partie Cependant Mme Bontemps qui avait dit cent fois qu'elle ne voulait pas aller chez les Verdurin, ravie d'tre invite aux mercredis, tait en train de calculer comment elle pourrait s'y rendre le plus de...
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A l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs - Première partieA l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs - Première partie Ma mre, quand il fut question d'avoir pour la premire fois M. de Norpois dner, ayant exprim le regret que le Professeur Cottard ft en voyage et qu'elle-mme et entirement cess de frquenter Swann,...
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Samuel Butler: A SketchSamuel Butler: A SketchSamuel Butler was born on the 4th December, 1835, at the Rectory, Langar, near Bingham, in Nottinghamshire. His father was the Rev. Thomas Butler, then Rector of Langar, afterwards one of the canons of Lincoln Cathedral, and his mother was Fanny...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. CompleteMark Twain: A Biography. Complete Clemens took a room at The Playersa cheap room, he wrote, at $1.50 per day. It was now the end of September, the beginning of a long half-year, during which Mark Twain's fortunes were at a lower ebb than...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910Clemens made a brief trip to Bermuda during the winter, taking Twichell along; their first return to the island since the trip when they had promised to come back so soon-nearly thirty years before. They had...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume III, Part 1: 1900-1907It would be hard to exaggerate the stir which the newspapers and the public generally made over the homecoming of Mark Twain. He had left America, staggering under heavy obligation and set out on a pilgrimage...
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Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900Mark Twain: A Biography. Volume II, Part 2: 1886-1900The Browning readings must have begun about this time. Just what kindled Mark Twain's interest in the poetry of Robert Browning is not remembered, but very likely his earlier associations with the poet had something to...
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