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Fashion and FamineFashion and FamineWhat shall I say in this Preface to my book? Shall I make the usual half-sincere, half-affected apology of haste and inexperience, with hints of improvement in future efforts? Indeed I cannot, for though this volume really is the first novel ever...
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Tales of Secret EgyptTales of Secret EgyptTHE duhr, or noonday call to prayer, had just sounded from the minarets of the Mosques of Kalan and En-Nasr, and I was idly noting the negligible effect of the adan upon the occupants of the neighboring shopscoppersmiths for the most...
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In Silk Attire: A NovelIn Silk Attire: A Novel"By the way, did you hear of the dinner at old Thornhill's on Tuesday? I declare everybody was drunk but the dogs; and they were turned out at night to find their way home by themselves. The Squire got very,...
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Tobias o' the Light: A Story of Cape CodTobias o' the Light: A Story of Cape CodOld Winter wrapped in his grave clothes stalked the flats and sand dunes about the Twin Rocks Light. Spring had smiled at the grim old fellow only the day before. She would flutter back again anon...
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Denry the AudaciousDenry the AudaciousEdward Henry Machin first saw the smoke on the 27th May, 1867, in Brougham Street, Bursley, the most ancient of the Five Towns. Brougham Street runs down from St. Luke's Square straight into the Shropshire Union Canal, and consists partly of buildings...
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The Passion for LifeThe Passion for LifeI am in a restless mood to-night. There seems nothing to explain this, except that perhaps I am growing tired of the life I am leading, or it may be that there are influences at work of which I have no...
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Mollie's Prince: A NovelMollie's Prince: A NovelIn this age of transition and progress, when the pleasure-seeker, like the Athenian of old, is for ever searching for things new and strange; when old landmarks are ruthlessly demolished, and respectable antiquities are shelved in outer darkness; then to some...
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Mal Moulée: A NovelMal Moulée: A NovelIt is more than two years since the outline of this simple story first suggested itself to me, and since the first chapters were written. Many times since then, conscious that I possessed no talent as a novelist, I have resolved...
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Wanderfoot (The Dream Ship)Wanderfoot (The Dream Ship)The Bavaric had been four fine September days at sea, and it was time for the vague pain and melancholy that always haunted Westenra after leaving Ireland to pass; yet it stayed with him as never before it had stayed. The...
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Voices in the NightVoices in the NightThe new year was already some hours old, but the world to which it had come was still dark. Dark with a curious obscurity, that was absolutely opaque yet faintly luminous, because of the white fog which lay on all things...
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The Princess DehraThe Princess DehraFor the first time in a generation the Castle of Lotzen was entertaining its lord. He had come suddenly, a month before, and presently there had followed rumors of strange happenings in Dornlitz, in which the Duke had been too intimately concerned...
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The Scarecrow, and Other StoriesThe Scarecrow, and Other StoriesThe woman stood in the doorway of the ramshackle, tumble-down shanty. Her hands were cupped at her mouth. The wind blew loose, whitish blond wisps of hair around her face and slashed the faded blue dress into the uncorseted bulk...
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Rebecca's PromiseRebecca's Promise"I never should have brought you here," murmured Cousin Susan Wentworth, as she looked across the table at young Cousin Rebecca Mary Wyman, who sat on the other side of the white cloth like a small gray mouse with bright expectant eyes, a...
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The StampederThe Stampeder"Rex gazed into the rolling eyes, the wild, distorted visage of the Corsican, and felt himself shoved to the very brink of the crevasse" . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece The siren bellowed thrice in a choking fury of...
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The Last Rose of SummerThe Last Rose of SummerAs Mrs. Shillaber often said, the one good thing about her old house was the fact that "you could throw the dining-room into the poller" when you wanted to give parties or funerals or weddings or such things. You had...
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John Burnet of Barns: A RomanceJohn Burnet of Barns: A RomanceEntered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED, Toronto, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. I have taken in hand to...
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The Master of Warlock: A Virginia War StoryThe Master of Warlock: A Virginia War StoryTO "DOROTHY SOUTH," THE DEAR LITTLE WOMAN WHO HAS BEEN WIFE TO ME FOR THIRTY-FOUR YEARS, WHO HAS UNCONSCIOUSLY INSPIRED ALL MY WORK, AND WHOSE PERSONALITY, IN ITS SEVERAL PHASES, IT HAS BEEN MY LOVING ENDEAVOUR TO...
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For the Soul of RafaelFor the Soul of Rafael The original includes photographic illustrations which are reproduced here at two resolutions. Images within the text are sized for online viewing. Click on an image to open a version of higher resolution. This larger version is scaled for printing...
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Mountain: A NovelMountain: A NovelHigh places have always held for a man a spell and a mystery. He could not traverse the windy ways of air, the spacious trails of the birds; but he could climb these rocky steeps, as hard-won steps toward the billowing mountains...
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The Hosts of the LordThe Hosts of the Lord"Understand! Of course you don't. I don't, though I've been here two years. And what's more, I don't want to," retorted a rather undersized Englishman, whose white drill suit made him look like a stem to the huge mushroom of...
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