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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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Studies and Essays: Quality, and OthersStudies and Essays: Quality, and OthersI knew him from the days of my extreme youth, because he made my father's boots; inhabiting with his elder brother two little shops let into one, in a small by-street-now no more, but then most fashionably placed in...
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Studies and Essays: The Inn of Tranquility, and OthersStudies and Essays: The Inn of Tranquility, and OthersUnder a burning blue sky, among the pine-trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of that Odyssean coast, we came one afternoon on a pink house bearing the legend: "Osteria di Tranquillita,"; and, partly because of...
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Du côté de chez SwannDu côté de chez Swann Longtemps, je me suis couch de bonne heure. Parfois, peine ma bougie teinte, mes yeux se fermaient si vite que je navais pas le temps de me dire: Je mendors. Et, une demi-heure aprs, la pense quil tait temps...
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YouthYouth I have said that my friendship with Dimitri opened up for me a new view of my life and of its aim and relations. The essence of that view lay in the conviction that the destiny of man is to strive for moral...
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The Longest JourneyThe Longest Journey The cow is there, said Ansell, lighting a match and holding it out over the carpet. No one spoke. He waited till the end of the match fell off. Then he said again, She is there, the cow. There, now. I...
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BoyhoodBoyhood Again two carriages stood at the front door of the house at Petrovskoe. In one of them sat Mimi, the two girls, and their maid, with the bailiff, Jakoff, on the box, while in the othera britchkasat Woloda, myself, and our servant Vassili....
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ChildhoodChildhood I THE TUTOR, KARL IVANITCH II MAMMA III PAPA IV LESSONS V THE IDIOT VI PREPARATIONS FOR THE CHASE VII THE HUNT VIII WE PLAY GAMES IX A FIRST ESSAY IN LOVE X THE SORT OF MAN MY FATHER WAS XI IN THE...
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The Way of All FleshThe Way of All FleshSamuel Butler began to write The Way of All Flesh about the year 1872, and was engaged upon it intermittently until 1884. It is therefore, to a great extent, contemporaneous with Life and Habit, and may be taken as a...
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The Blithedale RomanceThe Blithedale Romance The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street. As...
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SarrasineSarrasine I was buried in one of those profound reveries to which everybody, even a frivolous man, is subject in the midst of the most uproarious festivities. The clock on the Elysee-Bourbon had just struck midnight. Seated in a window recess and concealed behind...
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Paul KelverPaul Kelver Transcriber's Note: Items in [brackets] are editorial comments added in proofing. The pound (currency) symbol has been replaced by the word pound. At the corner of a long, straight, brick-built street in the far East End of Londonone of those lifeless streets,...
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Elizabeth and Her German GardenElizabeth and Her German Garden Originally published in 1898, Elizabeth and her German Garden is the first book by Marie Annette Beauchampknown all her life as Elizabeth. The book, anonymously published, was an incredible success, going through printing after printing by several publishers over...
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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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Agnes GreyAgnes Grey All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with...
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David CopperfieldDavid Copperfield I REMARKED in the original Preface to this Book, that I did not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from it, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading...
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Our Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, NorthOur Nig; Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-story White House, North - Showing That Slavery's Shadows Fall Even ThereIN offering to the public the following pages, the writer confesses her inability to minister to the refined and cultivated,...
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Little WomenLittle Women The four young faces on which the firelight shone brightened at the cheerful words, but darkened again as Jo said sadly, We havent got Father, and shall not have him for a long time. She didnt say perhaps never, but each silently...
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Fanny HerselfFanny Herself It has become the fashion among novelists to introduce their hero in knee pants, their heroine in pinafore and pigtails. Time was when we were rushed up to a stalwart young man of twenty-four, who was presented as the pivot about whom...
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