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The Beaux-Stratagem: A comedy in five actsThe Beaux-Stratagem: A comedy in five actsIt is an honour to the morality of the present age, that this most entertaining comedy is but seldom performed; and never, except some new pantomime, or other gaudy spectacle, be added, as an afterpiece, for the attraction...
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The Return of the SoldierThe Return of the SoldierAH, don't begin to fuss!" wailed Kitty. "If a woman began to worry in these days because her husband hadn't written to her for a fortnight! Besides, if he'd been anywhere interesting, anywhere where the fighting was really hot, he'd...
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The War-WorkersThe War-WorkersHalf a dozen people, all of whom had been working for Miss Vivian ever since ten o'clock that morning, as they had worked the day before and would work again the next day, sat in the Hostel sitting-room and talked about their work...
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Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other StoriesCecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other StoriesThe Publishers have the pleasure of offering to the many admirers of the writings of "Ouida," the present volume of Contributions, which have appeared from time to time in the leading Journals of Europe, and which...
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Penelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth CenturyPenelope Brandling: A Tale of the Welsh coast in the Eighteenth CenturyHaving reached an age when the morrow is more than uncertain, and knowing how soon all verbal tradition becomes blurred and distorted, I, Sophia Penelope, daughter of Jacques de Morat, a cadet of...
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Limbo, and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in MantuaLimbo, and Other Essays; To which is now added Ariadne in MantuaIt may seem curious to begin with Dante and pass on to the Children's Rabbits' House; but I require both to explain what it is I mean by Limbo; no such easy matter...
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In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3She had scarcely set down my heavy box, which she seemed to have considerable difficulty in raising on the table, when the door of the room in which I had seen the coffin, opened, and a sinister and unexpected...
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In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3In a Glass Darkly, v. 1/3Though carefully educated in medicine and surgery, I have never practised either. The study of each continues, nevertheless, to interest me profoundly. Neither idleness nor caprice caused my secession from the honourable calling which I had just entered. The...
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In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3The curious case which I am about to place before you, is referred to, very pointedly, and more than once, in the extraordinary Essay upon the drugs of the Dark and the Middle Ages, from the pen of Doctor...
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Ariadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five ActsAriadne in Mantua: A Romance in Five ActsLike almost everything else written by Vernon Lee there is to be found that insistent little touch which is her sign-manual when dealing with Italy or its makers of forgotten melodies. In other words, the music of...
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Lost Sir Massingberd: A Romance of Real Life. v. 2/2Lost Sir Massingberd: A Romance of Real Life. v. 2/2 CHAPTER I. OUT OF MIND, OUT OF SIGHT CHAPTER II. HARLEY STREET CHAPTER III. BEFORE THE BLOW CHAPTER IV. LOST CHAPTER V. THE STONE GARDEN CHAPTER VI. THE SEARCH CHAPTER VII. WHAT WAS IN...
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Lost Sir Massingberd: A Romance of Real Life. v. 1/2Lost Sir Massingberd: A Romance of Real Life. v. 1/2The uncommon favour with which the story of "LOST SIR MASSINGBERD" has been received while appearing in the columns of a popular periodical, has induced its author to solicit the suffrages of that more critical...
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The Sixth Sense: A NovelThe Sixth Sense: A NovelThe old War Office, of course, was gone; some of the shops on the north side were being demolished; and the Automobile Club was new and unassimilated. In my day, too, the Athenum had not been painted Wedgwood-green. Compared, however,...
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Res Judicatæ: Papers and EssaysRes Judicatæ: Papers and EssaysThe first two essays in this volume were composed as lectures, and are now printed for the first time; the others have endured that indignity before. The papers on 'The Letters of Charles Lamb' and 'Authors in Court' originally appeared...
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Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift (Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734)The shifting combinations of party, from the settlement of the constitution at the Revolution to a later period, is an attractive study to any who wish to find the origin of abuses which...
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Songs of WomanhoodSongs of WomanhoodA great number of the following verses are already known to readers of The Herb o' Grace, and of the little reprint, Songs of Childhood. As these pamphlets, however, did not reach the public, it has been thought advisable to re-issue the...
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Lives of the Fur FolkLives of the Fur FolkThe following, to a certain extent, are composite historiesat present our knowledge of the life of the individual wild animal is too limited to admit of anything else; but the incidents related are all founded on fact, and Redpad, Grimalkin,...
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SalomeSalomeMAPLESTONE COURT was a pretty, spacious, and comfortable English home. The house was built of old red brick, which took a deep, rich colour in the rays of the western sun as it shone upon the wide porch and the many windows. Before the...
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Charles Dickens' Children StoriesCharles Dickens' Children Stories"TROTTY" seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a porter, and carried letters and messages for people who...
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A Life For a Love: A NovelA Life For a Love: A NovelThis book is avowedly of the sensational kind, and of a different class of fiction from the author's previous story of "Paul Knox. Pitman;" the dramatic passages and vivid description of Indian life and scenery are exceptionally fine....
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