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The Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old JapanThe Curse of Koshiu: A Chronicle of Old JapanIt was towards the end of the fourteenth century that the grandeur of the Hojo family rose to its acme, then fell with awful crash. The feudal story of the Land of the Rising Sun is...
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The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's YouthThe Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth - Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat'If the ways and slang of Vagabonds and Beggars interested Martin Luther enough to make him write a preface to the Liber Vagatorum[1] in 1528, two of the ungodly may...
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A Life's Secret: A NovelA Life's Secret: A NovelOn the outskirts of Ketterford, a town of some note in the heart of England, stood, a few years ago, a white house, its green lawn, surrounded by shrubs and flowers, sloping down to the high road. It probably stands...
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The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904T was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch...
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Poor RelationsPoor RelationsTHERE was nothing to distinguish the departure of the Murmania from that of any other big liner leaving New York in October for Liverpool or Southampton. At the crowded gangways there was the usual rain of ultimate kisses, from the quayside the usual...
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With Drake on the Spanish MainWith Drake on the Spanish Main The romancer, in choosing as the setting for a tale the period of a man who looms large in history, finds himself on the horns of a dilemma. He cannot place his fictional near his historical hero without...
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Second StringSecond StringPunctuation has been regularized. The following typographical corrections were made: p. 517 "dumurely" changed to "demurely" p. 536 "that's he" changed to "that he's" p. 539 "thing" changed to "think" Jack Rock stood in his shop in High Street. He was not very...
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Next Door Neighbours: A Comedy In Three ActsNext Door Neighbours: A Comedy; In Three ActsHave not I a right to be cross? For while the whole house is in good humour, if there was not one person cross enough to take a little care, every thing would be wasted and ruined...
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Thrice ArmedThrice ArmedIt was with somewhat mixed feelings, and a curious little smile in his eyes, that Jim Wheelock stood with a brown hand on the Tyee's wheel as the deep-loaded schooner slid out through Vancouver Narrows before a fresh easterly breeze. Dim heights of...
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The Isle of Palms, and Other PoemsThe Isle of Palms, and Other Poems ISLE OF PALMS. Page. Canto I. 1 Canto II. 41 Canto III. 75 Canto IV. 139 Angler's Tent 181 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. Hermitage 223 Lines on Reading the Memoirs of Miss Smith 234 Hymn to Spring 246 Melrose...
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A Vindication of Natural DietA Vindication of Natural Diet.Shelley's "Vindication of Natural Diet" was first written as part of the notes to "Queen Mab," which was privately issued in 1813. Later in the same year the "Vindication" was separately published as a pamphlet, and it is from this...
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A Prairie CourtshipA Prairie CourtshipIt was falling dusk and the long emigrant train was clattering, close-packed with its load of somewhat frowsy humanity, through the last of the pine forest which rolls westward north of the Great Lakes toward the wide, bare levels of Manitoba, when...
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A Romance of WastdaleA Romance of WastdaleMrs. Jackson retired to the kitchen to prepare breakfast and to ponder over his remark. The result of her reflections was shown in the unusual strength of the tea and in an extra thickness of butter on the toast. She decked...
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Lawrence ClaveringLawrence ClaveringThe picture hangs at my lodgings here at Avignon, a stone's throw from the Porte de la Ligne, and within the shadow of Notre Dame des Doms, though its intended housing-place was the great gallery of Blackladies. But it never did hang there,...
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A Singular MetamorphosisA Singular MetamorphosisMiss Fiske had lived with the Tracys several years, and her incipient curiosity concerning the mystery pertaining to their household was becoming more obvious, for mystery there certainly was. At specific periods of the year, when she advanced towards certain portions of...
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TragedyTragedyThis book attempts to trace the course of English tragedy from its beginnings to the middle of the nineteenth century, and to indicate the part which it has played in the history both of the theatre and of literature. All tragedies of the sixteenth...
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Robinson Crusoe (I/II)Robinson Crusoe (I/II)Le traducteur de ce livre n'est point un traducteur, c'est tout bonnement un pote qui s'est pris de belle passion et de courage. Une des plus belles crations du gnie anglais courait depuis un sicle par les rues avec des haillons sur...
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Robinson Crusoe (II/II)Robinson Crusoe (II/II)Quand j'arrivai en Angleterre, j'tais parfaitement tranger tout le monde, comme si je n'y eusse jamais t connu. Ma bienfaitrice, ma fidle intendante qui j'avais laiss en dpt mon argent, vivait encore, mais elle avait essuy de grandes infortunes dans le monde;...
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The Black Moth: A Romance of the 18th CenturyThe Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIIIth CenturyClad in his customary black and silver, with raven hair unpowdered and elaborately dressed, diamonds on his fingers and in his cravat, Hugh Tracy Clare Belmanoir, Duke of Andover, sat at the escritoire in the library...
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Peter Binney: A NovelPeter Binney: A Novel It is over twenty years since "Peter Binney" was first published in England, and I should be unwilling to offer it to my American readers at this time of day without some plea for leniency towards a young man's book,...
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