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A Motor-Flight Through FranceFreeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, the bondage to fixed hours and the beaten track, the approach to each town through the area of ugliness and desolation created by the railway itself, it has given us...

The Puppet Show of MemoryTranscribers Note: A few obvious printers mistakes have been corrected (in particular in the Index, where entries often didnt match the spelling given in the main text, and have been changed to do so); any remaining errors are the authors...

The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821The letters included in this volume have been printed without alteration, except that some of Mrs. Piozzi's redundant initial capitals have been suppressed, and that her somewhat erratic punctuation has been, to a certain extent,...

Nuori-Viro: Muotokuvia ja suuntaviivoja "Luoda taidetta ja kulttuurielm ilman vanhemmilta polvilta peritty taiteen ja kulttuurielmn traditsioita, se on nykyhetken tehtv Virossa. Krsi nykyisyyden saamattomuudesta, ja lihassaan ja luissaan samalla menneisyyden kuormaa kantaen kurkoittaa ktens Euroopan kypsi taiteen hedelmi kohti, siin saman polven traagillisuus." Friedebert...

The life of Voltaire uvres Compltes de Voltaire. Beuchot. La Jeunesse de Voltaire. Gustave Desnoiresterres. Voltaire au Chteau de Cirey. Gustave Desnoiresterres. Voltaire la Cour. Gustave Desnoiresterres. Voltaire et Frdric. Gustave Desnoiresterres. Voltaire aux Dlices. Gustave Desnoiresterres. Voltaire et J. J. Rousseau. Gustave Desnoiresterres....

Word Portraits of Famous WritersThe world has always been fond of personal details respecting men who have been celebrated. These were the words of Lord Beaconsfield, and with them he prefixed his description of the personal appearance of Isaac DIsraeli; but we hardly need...

Cabezas: Pensadores y Artistas, Políticos - Obras Completas Vol. XXIINota del Transcriptor: Se ha respetado la ortografa y la acentuacin del original. Errores obvios de imprenta han sido corregidos. Pginas en blanco han sido eliminadas. La portada fue diseada por el transcriptor y se...

Exiles: A Play in Three ActsThe drawingroom in Richard Rowans house at Merrion, a suburb of Dublin. On the right, forward, a fireplace, before which stands a low screen. Over the mantelpiece a giltframed glass. Further back in the right wall, folding doors leading...

Letters from the Raven: Correspondence of L. Hearn with Henry WatkinIt is felt that no apology is necessary for offering to the interested public, even though it be a limited one, the letters and extracts from letters which appear in this little volume. In...

Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and DiaryIt was the purpose of Miss Larcom to write a sequel to her hook, A New England Girlhood, in which she intended to give some account of her life in the log-cabins on the Western prairies as a pioneer...

Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far EastOf whatever dimension, the temples or shrines of pure Shint are all built in the same archaic style. The typical shrine is a windowless oblong building of unpainted timber, with a very steep...

In the WorldI went out into the world as "shop-boy" at a fashionable boot-shop in the main street of the town. My master was a small, round man. He had a brown, rugged face, green teeth, and watery, mud-colored eyes. At first I thought...

Reminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch TolstoiReminiscences of Leo Nicolayevitch Tolstoi, by Maxim Gorky, was originally published in Russian in Petrograd in 1919. The first half of the book, consisting of notes, had been written between 1900 and 1901, when Tolstoi, Gorky, and Tchekhov were living...

The Great Push: An Episode of the Great WarThe justice of the cause which endeavours to achieve its object by the murdering and maiming of mankind is apt to be doubted by a man who has come through a bayonet charge. The dead lying...

Cyrano de Bergerac: Viisinäytöksinen runomittainen sankarinäytelmäTll nyttmll, josta nkyy yksi nurkkaus, on pitkin kulisseja asetettuja penkkej. Esirippu on laitettu kahdesta kuvakudosmatosta, jotka voi vet syrjn. Koristeverhokkeen ylpuolella kuningassuvun vaakunoita. Lavalta johtavat levet portaat saliin. Portaiden molemmin puolin viulunsoittajien paikat. Reunustavalona kynttilit. Kaksi rivi katsojapaikkoja,...

Aus meinem JugendlandDas vorliegende Buch bildet gewissermaen eine Fortsetzung und Ergnzung der Lebensgeschichte meines Vaters und die berleitung zu den Florentinischen Erinnerungen, in denen ich die Charakterbilder meiner verstorbenen Brder einzeln gezeichnet habe. Da ich bei der Niederschrift der genannten Bcher nicht daran dachte,...

Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846Credits: Produced by Dagny and Marc D'Hooghe at Free Literature (online soon in an extended version, also linking to free sources for education worldwide ... MOOC's, educational materials,...) Images generously made available...

A Little English GalleryThe studies in this book are chosen from a number written at irregular intervals, and from sheer interest in their subjects, long ago. Portions of them, or rough drafts of what has since been wholly remodelled from fresher and fuller material...

A Lady of England: The Life and Letters of Charlotte Maria TuckerIt would scarcely be fitting that this Volume should go forth to the Public without a few words of Preface from one of A. L. O. E.s own family. Only my beloved Motherthe...

Nathaniel Parker WillisThe materials for a life of Willis are rich enough to be embarrassing. Most of his writings are, in a greater or less degree, autobiographical; and it would be possible to make a very tolerable life of him, by arranging passages from...