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Letters to Dead AuthorsLetters to Dead AuthorsSixteen of these Letters, which were written at the suggestion of the Editor of the St. Jamess Gazette, appeared in that journal, from which they are now reprinted, by the Editors kind permission. They have been somewhat emended, and a few...
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Some ReminiscencesSome Reminiscences As a general rule we do not want much encouragement to talk about ourselves; yet this little book is the result of a friendly suggestion, and even of a little friendly pressure. I defended myself with some spirit; but, with characteristic tenacity,...
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The Magic SkinThe Magic Skin Towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of...
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Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de BergeracLa salle est un carr long; on la voit en biais, de sorte qu'un de ses cts forme le fond qui part du premier plan, droite, et va au dernier plan, gauche, faire angle avec la scne, qu'on aperoit en pan coup....
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Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de BergeracThe hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are...
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Life of John SterlingLife of John Sterling Transcriber's Note: Italics in the text are indicated by the use of an underscore as delimiter, thusly. All footnotes have been collected at the end of the text, and numbered sequentially in brackets, [thusly]. One illustration has been omitted. The...
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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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The Life of John BunyanThe Life of John BunyanJohn Bunyan, the author of the book which has probably passed through more editions, had a greater number of readers, and been translated into more languages than any other book in the English tongue, was born in the parish of...
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The Lesson of the MasterThe Lesson of the MasterHe had been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the stepsthey descended from a great height in two arms, with a circular sweep of the most charming effectat...
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IntentionsIntentionsCyril (coming in through the open window from the terrace). My dear Vivian, dont coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the woods, like the purple bloom upon...
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Reminiscences of Tolstoy, by His SonReminiscences of Tolstoy, by His Son IN one of his letters to his great-aunt, Alexandra Andreyevna Tolstoy, my father gives the following description of his children: The eldest [Sergei] is fair-haired and good-looking; there is something weak and patient in his expression, and very...
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Biographical Notes on the Pseudonymous BellsBiographical Notes on the Pseudonymous BellsI have just read over Wuthering Heights, and, for the first time, have obtained a clear glimpse of what are termed (and, perhaps, really are) its faults; have gained a definite notion of how it appears to other peopleto...
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A Psychological Counter-Current in Recent FictionA Psychological Counter-Current in Recent Fiction It is consoling as often as dismaying to find in what seems a cataclysmal tide of a certain direction a strong drift to the opposite quarter. It is so divinable, if not so perceptible, that its presence may...
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Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersGrace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersOR, BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PUBLISHING THIS WORK. WRITTEN BY THE AUTHOR THEREOF, AND DEDICATED TO THOSE WHOM GOD HATH COUNTED HIM WORTHY TO BEGET TO FAITH, BY HIS MINISTRY IN THE WORD Children, Grace be with you....
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The Death of the LionThe Death of the LionI had simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my chief, as he was called in the office: he had the high mission...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 2DEAREST KATHARINE,Here, on a very little book and accompanied with lame verses, I have put your name. Our kindness is now getting well on in years; it must be nearly of age; and it gets more...
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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1One day in the autumn of 1888, in the island of Tahiti, during an illness which he supposed might be his last, Stevenson put into the hands of his stepson, Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, a sealed paper...
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Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible SocietyLetters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible SocietyRevd. and dear Sir,I have just received your communication, and notwithstanding it is Sunday morning, and the bells with their loud and clear voices are calling me to church, I have sat down to...
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Robert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialRobert Louis Stevenson: A Record, an Estimate, and a MemorialMy little effort to make Thoreau better known in England had one result that I am pleased to think of. It brought me into personal association with R. L. Stevenson, who had written and published...
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Travels with a Donkey in the CevennesTravels with a Donkey in the CevennesThe journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travellers in what John Bunyan...
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