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The Beast in the JungleThe Beast in the JungleWhat determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intentionspoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had...
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The Light of the Western StarsThe Light of the Western Stars When Madeline Hammond stepped from the train at El Cajon, New Mexico, it was nearly midnight, and her first impression was of a huge dark space of cool, windy emptiness, strange and silent, stretching away under great blinking...
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Moon-Face, and Other StoriesMoon-Face, and Other Stories John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre...
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Rolf in the WoodsRolf in the Woods In this story I have endeavoured to realize some of the influences that surrounded the youth of America a hundred years ago, and made of them, first, good citizens, and, later, in the day of peril, heroes that won the...
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A Horse's TaleA Horse's TaleAlthough I have had several opportunities to see a bull-fight, I have never seen one; but I needed a bull-fight in this book, and a trustworthy one will be found in it. I got it out of John Hays Castilian Days, reducing...
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Dead SoulsDead Souls From the Author to the Reader Reader, whosoever or wheresoever you be, and whatsoever be your stationwhether that of a member of the higher ranks of society or that of a member of the plainer walks of lifeI beg of you, if...
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The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two NotesThe Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two NotesThe pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to have been the writers childhoods friend. They had parted as...
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, GentlemanThe Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman NEVER poor Wight of a Dedicator had less hopes from his Dedication, than I have from this of mine; for it is written in a bye corner of the kingdom, and in a retird thatchd house,...
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The Scouts of the ValleyThe Scouts of the Valley CHAPTER I. THE LONE CANOE CHAPTER II. THE MYSTERIOUS HAND CHAPTER III. THE HUT ON THE ISLET CHAPTER IV. THE RED CHIEFS CHAPTER V. THE IROQUOIS TOWN CHAPTER VI. THE EVIL SPIRIT'S WORK CHAPTER VII. CATHARINE MONTOUR CHAPTER VIII....
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The Strength of the StrongThe Strength of the StrongOld Long-Beard paused in his narrative, licked his greasy fingers, and wiped them on his naked sides where his one piece of ragged bearskin failed to cover him. Crouched around him, on their hams, were three young men, his grandsons,...
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The Mirror of Kong HoThe Mirror of Kong Ho Estimable barbarian,Your opportune suggestion that I should permit the letters, wherein I have described with undeviating fidelity the customs and manner of behaving of your accomplished race, to be set forth in the form of printed leaves for all...
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The Wallet of Kai LungThe Wallet of Kai Lung Ho, illustrious passers-by! says Kai Lung as he spreads out his embroidered mat under the mulberry-tree. It is indeed unlikely that you could condescend to stop and listen to the foolish words of such an insignificant and altogether deformed...
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The Sea-WolfThe Sea-Wolf I scarcely know where to begin, though I sometimes facetiously place the cause of it all to Charley Furuseths credit. He kept a summer cottage in Mill Valley, under the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, and never occupied it except when he loafed...
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Four Short Stories By Emile ZolaFour Short Stories By Emile Zola At nine oclock in the evening the body of the house at the Theatres des Varits was still all but empty. A few individuals, it is true, were sitting quietly waiting in the balcony and stalls, but these...
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The Cask of AmontilladoThe Cask of Amontillado The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to...
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The World Set FreeThe World Set Free The history of mankind is the history of the attainment of external power. Man is the tool-using, fire-making animal. From the outset of his terrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by...
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Martin EdenMartin Eden Let me live out my years in heat of blood! Let me lie drunken with the dreamers wine! Let me not see this soul-house built of mud Go toppling to the dust a vacant shrine! The one opened the door with a...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr TeufelsdröckhSartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh Considering our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times...
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'Twixt Land and Sea: Tales'Twixt Land & Sea: TalesEver since the sun rose I had been looking ahead. The ship glided gently in smooth water. After a sixty days passage I was anxious to make my landfall, a fertile and beautiful island of the tropics. The more enthusiastic...
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Within the Tides: TalesWithin the Tides: TalesIn the private editorial office of the principal newspaper in a great colonial city two men were talking. They were both young. The stouter of the two, fair, and with more of an urban look about him, was the editor and...
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