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Két város: Regény három könyvbenDers napok jrtak, de viharosak is. Ez a Blcsesg kora volt, de a Balgasg is. A Hit korszaka volt ez, de a Hitetlensg is. Vilgossg napjai voltak ezek, de a Sttsg is. A Remny tavasza virult s Ktsgbeess fergetege is...

The Wizard of Wall Street and His Wealth; or, The Life and Deeds of Jay GouldThe history of any man who had been able to distinguish himself by acquiring in his lifetime the greatest amount of wealth ever accumulated by one man, would necessarily...

The Story of Rome, From the Earliest Times to the Death of Augustus, Told to Boys and GirlsAfter slow, persistent struggle with storm and frost, the delicate bare branches were no longer bare, but clothed in living green. The hard black earth too had...

The Cream of the Jest: A comedy of evasionsMUCH has been written critically about Felix Kennaston since the disappearance of his singular personality from the field of contemporary writers; and Mr. Frosers Biography contains all it is necessary to know as to the facts...

Religio JournalisticiI WAS coming home from Buffalo in a train delightfully called The Black Diamond. I had any number of books in my bag, but my lower instincts were[2] uppermost: I was tired, and pined for the narcosis of newspapers. I asked the porter,...

Milk RunTwo hours before the vessel plunged into minus point, building up for a hundred and fifty parsec jump through hyperspace, Capt. Jock Warren was so high on narcol he couldn't read his own manifest. Not unusual on this milk run. After two hours...

Paradise PlanetIt was a queer looking planet. As his ship approached it, Steve Donay could see slowly rising and twisting coils of strange smoke, brown and silver and gold, like great snakes or the tenuous flesh of some creature of the air. He hated...

Preferred PositionThe bed woke them. "Time to get up, dears," it cooed. "Time to get up and greet the sun ... time to get up...." Then the supporting magnetism faded and let their mattress drift gently to the soft warm floor. But the damage...

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, Fifth Series, No. 35, Vol. I, August 30, 1884What the yacht-races at Cowes and a score of other places are to that section of the upper ten-thousand who delight in everything that pertains to the sea,...

Test ProblemJeremy knew he was in danger of flunking his final course and that meant a washout. But he sat down before the panel and concentrated. The problem was one of mind over matterthree parsecs of space away! When he came to the head...

The FugitivesJeff Engel studied the feverish crowd hurrying through the subway turnstiles. As he checked each passing face against a card-index mind, he smiled to himself. Even when off duty, the habit persisted. There was always the chance he'd spot a face that would...

Guaranteed—Forever!Clark Street, just north of Chicago's Loop, was the symbol of a million things, all of them bad, Manning thought. Bumpy paving bricks rutted with street car tracks and bordered on both sides by cheap saloons and quarter-a-night flop houses. Hot summer nights when...

The Lost EgoI stared at the woman. For a brief second I had felt that she was my wife. But I had never seen her before. I looked at her. She was a straw blonde, rather pretty in a way. "Give me some more...

Home Canning of Fruits and VegetablesAcknowledgment is made to the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station and the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station for cooperation in the development of some of the home-canning processes included in this publication, and to the National Canners Association for consultation and...

Three Visitors to Early Plymouth - Letters about the Pilgrim settlement in New England during its first seven yearsLetters which have survived over three hundred years, escaping the ravages of fire, water, vermin, and people who wanted to wrap fish, have a claim to...

Jabberwock, Beware!The Security Council was in emergency session. The four delegates would have had easier consciences had more nations been represented, but it was hard to travel now. Only Russia, England and France were able to send their men to New York. The others...

Wampum and Old Gold For permission to reprint poems appearing in this volume, thanks are due to the editors of The North American Review, The New Republic, Contemporary Verse, Life, La France, Harvey's Weekly, The Southern Review, The New York Times, The Boston Evening...

Du Bose Heyward: A Critical and Biographical Sketch There was a fashion amongst a certain school of critics and literati of former years to go about the country with dark lanterns ready to flash their microscopic spot lights upon this or that author, as...

The Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend In Anahuac there reigned a king Some fifty summers old, The bloody darling of his gods, Who sent him luck and gold And captives from a thousand fights, And victory in each war; No mercy kept within his...

History of the Water Supply of the World - arranged in a comprehensive form from eminent authorities, containing a description of the various methods of water supply, pollution and purification of waters, and sanitary effects, with analyses of potable waters, also geology and water...