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Friends and HelpersFriends and HelpersThe object of this book is to teach children to treat all living creatures with considerate kindness and to appreciate the services of man's helpers in the animal world. In many homes this teaching is entirely neglected, and it is left for...
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Janice Meredith: A Story of the American RevolutionJanice Meredith: A Story of the American Revolution Into the warp and woof of every book an author weaves much that even the subtlest readers cannot suspect, far less discern. To them it is but a cross and pile of threads interlaced to form...
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A House of GentlefolkA House of Gentlefolk THE NAMES OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE BOOK Marya Dmitrievna Kalitin, a widow. Marfa Timofyevna Pestov, her aunt. Sergei Petrovitch Gedeonovsky, a state councillor. Fedor Ivanitch Lavretsky, kinsman of Marya. Elisaveta Mihalovna (Lisa), daughters of Marya. Lenotchka, Shurotchka, an orphan...
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GerminalGerminalDans la plaine rase, sous la nuit sans toiles, d'une obscurit et d'une paisseur d'encre, un homme suivait seul la grande route de Marchiennes Montsou, dix kilomtres de pav coupant tout droit, travers les champs de betteraves. Devant lui, il ne voyait mme pas...
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La VendéeLa Vendée The history of France in 1792 has been too fully written, and too generally read to leave the novelist any excuse for describing the state of Paris at the close of the summer of that year. It is known to every one...
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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of BellaiseStray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise No one can be more aware than the author that the construction of this tale is defective. The state of French society, and the strange scenes of the Fronde, beguiled me into a tale...
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The Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the ColonelThe Queen of Sheba, and My Cousin the ColonelIn the month of June, 1872, Mr. Edward Lynde, the assistant cashier and bookkeeper of the Nautilus Bank at Rivermouth, found himself in a position to execute a plan which he had long meditated in secret....
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The Lord of Death and the Queen of LifeThe Lord of Death and the Queen of LifeThe geologist, who had held down the lower end of a quartet in his university days, growled an accompaniment under his breath as he blithely peeled the potatoes. Occasionally a high-pitched note or two came from...
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The EmancipatrixThe EmancipatrixThe geologist showed no surprise. Instead, he frowned severely at the end of his cigar, and carefully seated himself on the corner of the table. When he spoke there was a certain rigor in his voice, which told the doctor that his friend...
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Tales of ChinatownTales of Chinatown In the saloon bar of a public-house, situated only a few hundred yards from the official frontier of Chinatown, two men sat at a small table in a corner, engaged in earnest conversation. They afforded a sharp contrast. One was a...
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Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express RobberyJim Cummings; Or, The Great Adams Express RobberyIn the rear room of a small frame building, the front of which was occupied as a coal office, located on West Lake street, Chicago, three men were seated around a square pine table. The curtains of...
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Jimmie HigginsJimmie Higgins And Jimmie set down the saucer of hot coffee which he was in the act of adjusting to his mouth, and stared at his wife. He did not say anything; in three years and a half as a married man he had...
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The Holiday RoundThe Holiday Round"When my wife and I took this commodious residence for six weeks," he said, "and engaged the sea at great expense to come up to its doors twice a day, it was on the distinct understanding that our guests should plunge into...
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The Young Musician Or, Fighting His WayThe Young Musician; Or, Fighting His Way He will have a comfortable home now, Mrs. Pope. Probably you are not aware that it cost the town two thousand dollars last year to maintain the almshouse. I can show you the item in the town...
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Jacob's RoomJacob's RoomSlowly welling from the point of her gold nib, pale blue ink dissolved the full stop; for there her pen stuck; her eyes fixed, and tears slowly filled them. The entire bay quivered; the lighthouse wobbled; and she had the illusion that the...
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The Prose of Alfred LichtensteinThe Prose of Alfred LichtensteinMax Mechenmal was an independent manager of a newspaper kiosk. He ate and drank well; he had relations with many women, but he was careful. Because his salary was insufficient, he occasionally permitted himself to take money from Ilka Leipke....
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The Potato Child and OthersThe Potato Child & Others When Miss Amanda had selected her from among the girls at "The Home," the motherly matron felt sorry. "She is a tender-hearted little thing, and a kind word goes a great way with Elsie." Miss Amanda looked at the...
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A Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the SkyA Son of the Gods, and A Horseman in the Sky Brilliant and magnetic as are these two studies by Ambrose Bierce, and especially significant as coming from one who was a boy soldier in the Civil War, they merely reflect one side of...
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Lord JimLord Jim When this novel first appeared in book form a notion got about that I had been bolted away with. Some reviewers maintained that the work starting as a short story had got beyond the writers control. One or two discovered internal evidence...
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Ranson's FollyRanson's Folly The junior officers of Fort Crockett had organized a mess at the post-trader's. And a mess it certainly is, said Lieutenant Ranson. The dining-table stood between hogsheads of molasses and a blazing log-fire, the counter of the store was their buffet, a...
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