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Den siste AtenarenDen siste Atenaren"Den siste atenaren" is a novel in Swedish by the Swedish writer Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895). It was first published in the daily newspaper "Gteborgs Handels- och Sjfartstidning", starting in February 1859. It also appeared as a book later the same year, with...
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The Postmaster's DaughterThe Postmaster's Daughter John Menzies Grant, having breakfasted, filled his pipe, lit it, and strolled out bare-headed into the garden. The month was June, that glorious rose-month which gladdened England before war-clouds darkened the summer sky. As the hour was nine oclock, it is...
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The Unspeakable GentlemanThe Unspeakable GentlemanI have seen the improbable turn true too often not to have it disturb me. Suppose these memoirs still exist when the French royalist plot of 1805 and my father's peculiar role in it are forgotten. I cannot help but remember it...
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The Twilight of the Gods, and Other TalesThe Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales The fourth Christian century was far past its meridian, when, high above the summit of the supreme peak of Caucasus, a magnificent eagle came sailing on broad fans into the blue, and his shadow skimmed the...
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A Soldier of Virginia: A Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's DefeatA Soldier of Virginia: A Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's DefeatIt was not until he sneered at me openly across the board that I felt my self-control slipping from me. "Lieutenant Allen seems to have a poor opinion of the Virginia troops," I...
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Old Lady Number 31Old Lady Number 31Angeline's slender, wiry form and small, glossy gray head bent over the squat brown tea-pot as she shook out the last bit of leaf from the canister. The canister was no longer hers, neither the tea-pot, nor even the battered old...
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The Hampstead MysteryThe Hampstead MysteryDetective-Inspector Chippenfield, of Scotland Yard, waited with the receiver held to his ear. While he waited he scrutinised keenly a sheet of paper which lay on the desk in front of him. It was a flimsy, faintly-ruled sheet from a cheap writing-pad,...
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KazanKazanKazan lay mute and motionless, his gray nose between his forepaws, his eyes half closed. A rock could have appeared scarcely less lifeless than he; not a muscle twitched; not a hair moved; not an eyelid quivered. Yet every drop of the wild blood...
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Lister's Great AdventureLister's Great AdventureDinner was over, and Cartwright occupied a chair on the lawn in front of the Canadian summer hotel. Automatic sprinklers threw sparkling showers across the rough, parched grass, the lake shimmered, smooth as oil, in the sunset, and a sweet, resinous smell...
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The Power and the GloryThe Power and the Glory Onie Dillard's," he replied hollowly from the depths of the crib which he carried upside down upon his head, like some curious kind of overgrown helmet. " Now, why in the name o' common sense would ye go and...
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The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective StoryThe Mystery of the Boule Cabinet: A Detective StoryAnd that is how it happened that, an hour later, I was walking over toward Washington Square, just above which, on the Avenue, the old Vantine mansion stood. It was almost the last survival of the...
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Gunman's ReckoningGunman's ReckoningThe fifty empty freights danced and rolled and rattled on the rough road bed and filled Jericho Pass with thunder; the big engine was laboring and grunting at the grade, but five cars back the noise of the locomotive was lost. Yet there...
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Beltane the SmithBeltane the SmithIn a glade of the forest, yet not so far but that one might hear the chime of bells stealing across the valley from the great minster of Mortain on a still evening, dwelt Beltane the Smith. Alone he lived in the...
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The Iron Game: A Tale of the WarThe Iron Game: A Tale of the WarWhen expulsion from college, in his junior years, was visited upon Jack Sprague, he straightway became the hero of Acredale. And, though the grave faculty had felt constrained to vindicate college authority, it was well known that...
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The Secret of the TowerThe Secret of the Tower Two days before thethe ceremony! Mercifully it had all been kept very quiet, because it was only three months since poor Gilly was killed. I forget whether you ever met Gilly? My half-brother, you know? Only oncein Collingham Gardens....
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La vampireLa vampireMais le hasard, ici, est venu ajouter, aux renseignements exacts donns par l'excellent homme, d'autres renseignements qui nous ont permis d'expliquer certains faits que notre hroque bonne d'enfants des Tuileries regardait comme franchement surnaturels. Ces claircissements, grce auxquels ce drame fantastique va passer...
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The Open Door, and the PortraitThe Open Door, and the Portrait. - Stories of the Seen and the Unseen.I took the house of Brentwood on my return from India in 18, for the temporary accommodation of my family, until I could find a permanent home for them. It had...
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A Little Pilgrim: Stories of the Seen and the UnseenA Little Pilgrim: Stories of the Seen and the UnseenShe had been talking of dying only the evening before, with a friend, and had described her own sensations after a long illness when she had been at the point of death. "I suppose," she...
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Old Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the UnseenOld Lady Mary: A Story of the Seen and the UnseenShe was very old, and therefore it was very hard for her to make up her mind to die. I am aware that this is not at all the general view, but that it...
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The Little Pilgrim: Further ExperiencesThe Little Pilgrim: Further Experiences. - Stories of the Seen and the Unseen.The little Pilgrim, whose story has been told in another place, and who had arrived but lately on the other side, among those who know trouble and sorrow no more, was one...
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