Fiction
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SarréoSarréo - 1901 "Well, there's niggers an' niggers, some just as good as any white man," said Mr. Thomas Potter as he, the second mate of the island-trading barque Reconnaisance, and Denison the supercargo, walked her short, stumpy poop one night, "though when I...
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PâkiaPâkia - 1901 Late one evening, when the native village was wrapped in slumber, Temana and I brought our sleeping-mats down to the boat-shed, and spread them upon the white, clinking sand. For here, out upon the open beach, we could feel a breath...
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Nobody's BoyNobody's Boy - Sans Famille"Nobody's Boy," published in France under the title "Sans Famille," has become justly famous as one of the supreme juvenile stories of the world. In the midst of its early popularity, it was crowned by the Academy as one of...
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The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2This is one of the most powerful Roman stories in the English language, and is of itself sufficient to stamp the writer as a powerful man. The dark intrigues of the days which Csar, Sallust and Cicero made illustrious; when...
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The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 A few words are perhaps needed as an introduction to a work of far more ambitious character, than any which I have before attempted. In venturing to select a subject from the history of Rome, during its earlier ages,...
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The Delegate from VenusThe Delegate from VenusJerry Bridges, sitting in the chair opposite his employer's desk, chewed on his knuckles and said nothing. One part of his mind wanted him to play it cagey, to behave the way the newspaper wanted him to behave, to protect the...
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The CricketThe CricketBarbarian? B-a-r-b-a-r-i-a-n, she spelled slowly. It is a savage creature with no manners, no morals, no clothes even. It lives in a hut or a tree, and eats roots and nuts, and nearly raw meat, Miss Wilder remarked, none too accurately, but slowly,...
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The Yellow HordeThe Yellow HordeThe wolfer lay in his cabin and listened to the first few night sounds of the foothills. The clear piping notes of migrating plover floated softly down to him, punctuated by the rasping cry of a nighthawk. A coyote raised his voice,...
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No Moving PartsNo Moving PartsFifteen minutes later the emergency light flashed on for the second time in two hundred years. With its red glow illuminating his freckled excited face, Hansen triumphantly placed another call to the Euclid Queen. If youll check your emergency procedures, Hansen said,...
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The Romany RyeThe Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro'Lavengro and The Romany Rye are one book, though the former was published in 1851 and the latter not until 1857. After a slumber of six years the dingle re-awakes to life, Lavengros hammer shatters the stillness,...
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The Planet StrappersThe Planet StrappersThe Archer Five came in a big packing box, bound with steel ribbons and marked, This end uphandle with care. It was delivered at a subsidized government surplus price of fifty dollars to Hendricks' Sports and Hobbies Center, a store in Jarviston,...
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Mr. OppMr. OppMr. Opp? said Jimmy. I bet he did. If there is one person in the world thats got a talent for missing things, its Mr. Opp. I never seen him that he hadnt just missed gettin a thousand dollar job, or inventin a...
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Officer and ManOfficer and Man - 1901 The anchor of her Majesty's ship Hannibal was underfoot and the captain on the bridge, and Rear-Admiral Garnet had shaken hands with the last of the leading Fijian white residents, who always did the welcoming and farewelling when distinguished...
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The Penal ClusterThe Penal ClusterHouston didn't look up immediately. He simply stood there in the lobby of the big London bank, filling out a deposit slip at one of the long, high desks. When he had finished, he picked up the slip and headed towards the...
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In the Far NorthIn the Far North - 1901 Jack Barrington, nominal owner of Tinandra Downs cattle station on the Gilbert River in the far north of North Queensland, was riding slowly over his run, when, as the fierce rays of a blazing sun, set in a...
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The Brothers-In-Law: A Tale of the Equatorial Islands; and The Brass Gun of the BuccaneersThe Brothers-In-Law: A Tale of the Equatorial Islands; and The Brass Gun of the Buccaneers - 1901 There, said Tvita the teacher, pointing with his paddle to a long, narrow peninsula which stretched out into the shallow waters of the lagoon, there, that is...
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Adriana Zumarán (novela)Adriana Zumarán (novela)La muerte de su padre permaneca envuelta para Adriana en una penumbra de lejano misterio. Haba llegado a la sospecha, luego a la certidumbre, de un suicidio. El episodio se remontaba a los primeros aos de su infancia. Ella recordaba confusamente el...
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Foster's Letter of Marque: A Tale of Old SydneyFoster's Letter of Marque: A Tale of Old Sydney - 1901 One by one the riding-lights of the few store-ships and whalers lying in Sydney Harbour on an evening in January, 1802, were lit, and as the clear notes of a bugle from the...
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The Adventure of Elizabeth Morey, of New YorkThe Adventure of Elizabeth Morey, of New York - 1901 In the sea story of Australia, from the days of Captain Phillip in 1788, to the end of the "fifties" in the present century, American ships and seamen have no little part. First they...
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The Temptation of St. Antony Or, A Revelation of the SoulThe Temptation of St. Antony; Or, A Revelation of the SoulThe Hermit's cell occupies the background. It is built of mud and reeds, flat-roofed and doorless. Inside are seen a pitcher and a loaf of black bread; in the centre, on a wooden support,...
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