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Original Short Stories — Volume 09Original Short Stories — Volume 09 He was known for thirty miles round was father Toinefat Toine, Toine-my-extra, Antoine Macheble, nicknamed Burnt-Brandythe innkeeper of Tournevent. It was he who had made famous this hamlet buried in a niche in the valley that led down...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 08Original Short Stories — Volume 08 How strange those old recollections are which haunt us, without our being able to get rid of them. This one is so very old that I cannot understand how it has clung so vividly and tenaciously to my...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 07Original Short Stories — Volume 07 Monsieur Lantin had met the young girl at a reception at the house of the second head of his department, and had fallen head over heels in love with her. She was the daughter of a provincial tax...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 06Original Short Stories — Volume 06 The household lived frugally on the meager income derived from the husband's insignificant appointments. Two children had been born of the marriage, and the earlier condition of the strictest economy had become one of quiet, concealed, shamefaced misery,...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 05Original Short Stories — Volume 05 George's father was sitting in an iron chair, watching his little son with concentrated affection and attention, as little George piled up the sand into heaps during one of their walks. He would take up the sand with...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 04Original Short Stories — Volume 04 The warm autumn sun was beating down on the farmyard. Under the grass, which had been cropped close by the cows, the earth soaked by recent rains, was soft and sank in under the feet with a soggy...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 03Original Short Stories — Volume 03 There were seven of us on a drag, four women and three men; one of the latter sat on the box seat beside the coachman. We were ascending, at a snail's pace, the winding road up the steep...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 02Original Short Stories — Volume 02 Upon my word, said Colonel Laporte, although I am old and gouty, my legs as stiff as two pieces of wood, yet if a pretty woman were to tell me to go through the eye of a needle,...
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Original Short Stories — Volume 01Original Short Stories — Volume 01 I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt. These words of Maupassant to Jose Maria de Heredia on the occasion of a memorable meeting are, in spite of their morbid solemnity,...
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Ten Days That Shook the WorldTen Days That Shook the World This book is a slice of intensified historyhistory as I saw it. It does not pretend to be anything but a detailed account of the November Revolution, when the Bolsheviki, at the head of the workers and soldiers,...
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The ReturnThe Return The churchyard in which Arthur Lawford found himself wandering that mild and golden September afternoon was old, green, and refreshingly still. The silence in which it lay seemed as keen and mellow as the lightthe pale, almost heatless, sunlight that filled the...
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The Burgess Bird Book for ChildrenThe Burgess Bird Book for Children This book was written to supply a definite need. Its preparation was undertaken at the urgent request of booksellers and others who have felt the lack of a satisfactory medium of introduction to bird life for little children....
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Chronicles of America series v. 18Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Volume 18 of the Chronicles of America Series Allen Johnson, Editor Assistant Editors Gerhard R. Lomer Charles W. Jefferys ii Copyright, 1919 by Yale University Press This narrative is founded largely...
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Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military PrisonsAndersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons Fifteen months agoand one month before it was begunI had no more idea of writing this book than I have now of taking up my residence in China. While I have always been deeply impressed with the...
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The Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet StrangeThe Golden Slipper, and Other Problems for Violet Strange Shes here! I thought she would be. Shes one of the three young ladies you see in the right-hand box near the proscenium. The gentleman thus addresseda man of middle age and a member of...
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The Hound of the BaskervillesThe Hound of the BaskervillesMr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which...
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The Great Boer WarThe Great Boer War During the course of the war some sixteen Editions of this work have appeared, each of which was, I hope, a little more full and accurate than that which preceded it. I may fairly claim, however, that the absolute mistakes...
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Washington Square PlaysWashington Square Plays If fools did not rush in where theatrical angels fear to tread, this Preface would never have been written. Two years back the Washington Square Players were called, by many who had theatrical experience, fools. Now some term us pioneers. The...
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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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Chronicles of America series v. 01The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America In writing this book the author has aimed first to present in readable form the main facts about the geographical environment of American history. Many important facts have been omitted or have been touched upon...
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