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My Life and My EffortsMy Life and My EffortsKarl May, born in 1842 under the name Carl Friedrich May, published the first volume of his autobiography in November of 1910. He never found the time to write the planned second volume or any of the other future works...
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Mein Leben und StrebenMein Leben und StrebenWenn man von der Erde aus drei Monate lang geraden Weges nach der Sonne geht und dann in derselben Richtung noch drei Monate lang ber die Sonne hinaus, so kommt man an einen Stern, welcher Sitara heit. Sitara ist ein persarabisches...
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Jewel: A Chapter in Her LifeJewel: A Chapter in Her Life JEWEL CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER...
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Cabbages and KingsCabbages and Kings They will tell you in Anchuria, that President Miraflores, of that volatile republic, died by his own hand in the coast town of Coralio; that he had reached thus far in flight from the inconveniences of an imminent revolution; and that...
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The Four MillionThe Four Million Tobin and me, the two of us, went down to Coney one day, for there was four dollars between us, and Tobin had need of distractions. For there was Katie Mahorner, his sweetheart, of County Sligo, lost since she started for...
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The Good SoldierThe Good Soldier THIS is the saddest story I have ever heard. We had known the Ashburnhams for nine seasons of the town of Nauheim with an extreme intimacyor, rather with an acquaintanceship as loose and easy and yet as close as a good...
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The PatricianThe Patrician Light, entering the vast rooma room so high that its carved ceiling refused itself to exact scrutinytravelled, with the wistful, cold curiosity of the dawn, over a fantastic storehouse of Time. Light, unaccompanied by the prejudice of human eyes, made strange revelation...
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FraternityFraternity In the afternoon of the last day of April, 190-, a billowy sea of little broken clouds crowned the thin air above High Street, Kensington. This soft tumult of vapours, covering nearly all the firmament, was in onslaught round a patch of blue...
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The Country HouseThe Country House The year was 1891, the month October, the day Monday. In the dark outside the railway-station at Worsted Skeynes Mr. Horace Pendyce's omnibus, his brougham, his luggage-cart, monopolised space. The face of Mr. Horace Pendyce's coachman monopolised the light of the...
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The Island PhariseesThe Island Pharisees Each man born into the world is born like Shelton in this bookto go a journey, and for the most part he is born on the high road. At first he sits there in the dust, with his little chubby hands...
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Five Little Peppers and How They GrewFive Little Peppers and How They Grew The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion of mid-day; and now, with its afternoon manners on, presented a holiday aspect, that as the principal room in the brown house, it was eminently...
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CleopatraCleopatra In the recesses of the desolate Libyan mountains that lie behind the temple and city of Abydus, the supposed burying place of the holy Osiris, a tomb was recently discovered, among the contents of which were the papyrus rolls whereupon this history is...
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The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. TitmarshThe Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh Some months since, when you presented to the writer of these pages a small account for coats and pantaloons manufactured by you, and when you were met by a statement from your creditor, that an...
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The Devil's PawThe Devil's Paw The two men, sole occupants of the somewhat shabby cottage parlour, lingered over their port, not so much with the air of wine lovers, but rather as human beings and intimates, perfectly content with their surroundings and company. Outside, the wind...
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The Red AcornThe Red Acorn The name given this story is that made glorious by the valor and achievements of the splendid First Division of the Fourteenth Army Corps, the cognizance of which was a crimson acorn, worn on the breasts of its gallant soldiers, and...
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The Lady from the SeaThe Lady from the Sea (SCENE.DOCTOR WANGEL'S house, with a large verandah garden in front of and around the house. Under the verandah a flagstaff. In the garden an arbour, with table and chairs. Hedge, with small gate at the back. Beyond, a road...
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The Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream StoryThe Mahatma and the Hare: A Dream Story Ultimately a good hare was found which took the field at . . . There the hounds pressed her, and on the hunt arriving at the edge of the cliff the hare could be seen crossing...
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The World's DesireThe World's Desire The period in which the story of The Worlds Desire is cast, was a period when, as Miss Braddon remarks of the age of the Plantagenets, anything might happen. Recent discoveries, mainly by Dr. Schliemann and Mr. Flinders Petrie, have shown...
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The BrethrenThe Brethren R.M.S. Mongolia, 12th May, 1904 Mayhap, Ella, here too distance lends its enchantment, and these gallant brethren would have quarrelled over Rosamund, or even had their long swords at each others throat. Mayhap that Princess and heroine might have failed in the...
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Benita, an African romanceBenita, an African romance It was said about five-and-twenty or thirty years ago that an adventurous trader, hearing from some natives in the territory that lies at the back of Quilimane, the legend of a great treasure buried in or about the sixteenth century...
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