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Heroes of the TelegraphHeroes of the Telegraph The present work is in some respects a sequel to the PIONEERS OF ELECTRICITY, and it deals with the lives and principal achievements of those distinguished men to whom we are indebted for the introduction of the electric telegraph and...
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The Yates Pride: A RomanceThe Yates Pride: A Romance Opposite Miss Eudora Yatess old colonial mansion was the perky modern Queen Anne residence of Mrs. Joseph Glynn. Mrs. Glynn had a daughter, Ethel, and an unmarried sister, Miss Julia Esterbrook. All three were fond of talking, and had...
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American NotesAmerican Notes In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, 'the man who came...
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Tanglewood TalesTanglewood Tales A short time ago, I was favored with a flying visit from my young friend Eustace Bright, whom I had not before met with since quitting the breezy mountains of Berkshire. It being the winter vacation at his college, Eustace was allowing...
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Ethics — Part 5Ethics — Part 5PREFACE At length I pass to the remaining portion of my Ethics, which is concerned with the way leading to freedom. I shall therefore treat therein of the power of the reason, showing how far the reason can control the emotions,...
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The Secret Agent: A Simple TaleThe Secret Agent: A Simple TaleMr Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. It could be done, because there was very little business at any time, and practically none at all before the evening. Mr Verloc...
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Howard Pyle's Book of PiratesHoward Pyle's Book of Pirates - Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish Main The author of this narrative cannot recall that, in any history of the famous pirates, he has ever read a detailed and sufficient account of...
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The Devil's DictionaryThe Devil's Dictionary The Devil's Dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906. In that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title The Cynic's Word...
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Ethics — Part 4Ethics — Part 4Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage: for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often...
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Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre StoriesUncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories The one particular object in writing this book is to furnish you with an occasional laugh, and the writer with an occasional dollar. If you get the laugh you have your equivalent, and the writer has his. In Uncle...
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The Tenant of Wildfell HallThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall While I acknowledge the success of the present work to have been greater than I anticipated, and the praises it has elicited from a few kind critics to have been greater than it deserved, I must also admit that...
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Martin ChuzzlewitMartin Chuzzlewit What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may...
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Nicholas NicklebyNicholas NicklebyThis story was begun, within a few months after the publication of the completed Pickwick Papers. There were, then, a good many cheap Yorkshire schools in existence. There are very few now. Of the monstrous neglect of education in England, and the disregard...
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Maid MarianMaid Marian The abbot, in his alb arrayed, stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with...
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The Black TulipThe Black Tulip On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses,...
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The Merry Adventures of Robin HoodThe Merry Adventures of Robin Hood You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think that life hath nought...
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Little DorritLittle Dorrit I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a...
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The Poems of Henry KendallThe Poems of Henry Kendall - With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens [Transcriber's Note on text: Lines longer than 78 characters have been broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces. A few obvious errors have been corrected.] This edition of...
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Glinda of OzGlinda of Oz - In Which Are Related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in Their Hazardous Journey to the Home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and How They Were Rescued from Dire Peril...
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The Tin Woodman of OzThe Tin Woodman of Oz - A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz, and Polychrome, the Rainbow's Daughter I know that some of you have been waiting for this story...
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