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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the ComicLaughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic This work, by Professor Bergson, has been revised in detail by the author himself, and the present translation is the only authorised one. For this ungrudging labour of revision, for the thoroughness with which it...
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Fifty Famous FablesFifty Famous Fables The fifty fables in this book have been selected for second grade reading because they are easily comprehended by pupils of that grade, and because they teach lessons which every child should learn. The two ducks talked together in low tones...
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Brazilian SketchesBrazilian Sketches I was dining one day with a very successful business man who, although his business had extensive relations in many lands, was meagerly informed about the work of missions. I thought I might interest him by telling him something of the effects...
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Complete Plays of John GalsworthyComplete Plays of John GalsworthyJOHN BARTHWICK, M.P., a wealthy Liberal MRS. BARTHWICK, his wife JACK BARTHWICK, their son ROPER, their solicitor MRS. JONES, their charwoman MARLOW, their manservant WHEELER, their maidservant JONES, the stranger within their gates MRS. SEDDON, a landlady SNOW, a detective...
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The Complete Essays of John GalsworthyThe Complete Essays of John Galsworthy Under a burning blue sky, among the pine-trees and junipers, the cypresses and olives of that Odyssean coast, we came one afternoon on a pink house bearing the legend: Osteria di Tranquillita,; and, partly because of the name,...
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Dramatic RomancesDramatic Romances [The Dramatic Romances,...] enriched by some of the poems originally printed in Men and Women, and a few from Dramatic Lyrics as first printed, include some of Browning's finest and most characteristic work. In several of them the poet displays his familiarity...
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In the Sweet Dry and DryIn the Sweet Dry and Dry As far as this book is concerned, the public may Take It, or the public may Let It Alone. But the authors feel it their duty to say that no deductions as to their own private habits are...
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From Ritual to RomanceFrom Ritual to RomanceThis header should be the first thing seen when anyone starts to view the etext. Do not change or edit it without written permission. The words are carefully chosen to provide users with the information they need to understand what they...
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The Interdependence of LiteratureThe Interdependence of Literature "There is first, the literature of knowledge, and secondly the literature of power. The function of the first is to teach, the function or the second is to move; the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a...
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The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of ReasonThe Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason I have mentioned in the former part of The Age of Reason that it had long been my intention to publish my thoughts upon Religion; but that I had originally reserved...
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Returning HomeReturning HomeIt is generally supposed that people who live at home,good domestic people, who love tea and their arm-chairs, and who keep the parlour hearth-rug ever warm,it is generally supposed that these are the people who value home the most, and best appreciate all...
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Literary Taste: How to Form ItLiterary Taste: How to Form It - With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature At the beginning a misconception must be removed from the path. Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment, by acquiring...
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The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and ReligionThe Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and ReligionTHE PRIMARY aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years...
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The Americanization of Edward BokThe Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years Afterto the american woman i owe much,but to two women i owe more, MY MOTHERandMY WIFE. and to them i dedicate this account of the boyto whom one gave birth...
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Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) The other winter, as I was taking a morning walk down to the East River, I came upon a bit of our motley life, a fact of our piebald civilization, which has perplexed me from time...
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My Literary PassionsMy Literary PassionsThe papers collected here under the name of 'My Literary Passions' were printed serially in a periodical of such vast circulation that they might well have been supposed to have found there all the acceptance that could be reasonably hoped for them....
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of FableBulfinch's Mythology: The Age of FableOrigin of Greeks and Romans. The Aryan Family. The Divinities of these Nations. Character of the Romans. Greek notion of the World. Dawn, Sun, and Moon. Jupiter and the gods of Olympus. Foreign gods. Latin Names. Saturn or Kronos....
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Letters to Dead AuthorsLetters to Dead Authors Sixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the editor of the 'St. James's Gazette,' appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the editor's kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a...
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The UpanishadsThe Upanishads by The translator's idea of rendering the Upanishads into clear simple English, accessible to Occidental readers, had its origin in a visit paid to a Boston friend in 1909. The gentleman, then battling with a fatal malady, took from his library shelf...
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Books and BookmenBooks and BookmenThey cannot be separated any more than sheep and a shepherd, but I am minded to speak of the bookman rather than of his books, and so it will be best at the outset to define the tribe. It does not follow...
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