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La FiammettaLa FiammettaYouth, beauty, and love, wit, gayety and laughter, are the component parts of the delightful picture conjured up by the mere name of Giovanni Boccaccio, the prince of story-tellers for all generations of men. This creator of a real literary epoch was born...
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Captivating Mary CarstairsCaptivating Mary Carstairs_This book, representing the writer's first effort at a long story, has something of a story of its own. First planned in 1900 or 1901, it was begun in 1905, and finished at length, in a version, three years later. Through the...
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Amarilly of Clothes-line AlleyAmarilly of Clothes-line AlleyThe tiny, trivial touch of Destiny that caused the turn in Amarilly's fate-tide came one morning when, in her capacity as assistant to the scrub ladies at the Barlow Stock Theatre, she viewed for the first time the dress rehearsal of...
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Philothea: A Grecian RomancePhilothea: A Grecian RomanceThis volume is purely romance; and most readers will consider it romance of the wildest kind. A few kindred spirits, prone to people space "with life and mystical predominance," will perceive a light within the Grecian Temple. For such I have...
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The Spenders: A Tale of the Third GenerationThe Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation The wanderers of earth turned to heroutcast of the older lands With a promise and hope in their pleading, and she reached them pitying hands; And she cried to the Old-World cities that drowse by the...
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Wylder's HandWylder's HandIt was late in the autumn, and I was skimming along, through a rich English county, in a postchaise, among tall hedgerows gilded, like all the landscape, with the slanting beams of sunset. The road makes a long and easy descent into the...
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Platero y yoPlatero y yoThe present edition of Platero y yo contains selections from both the first edition of the original work, published by La Lectura, Madrid, 1914, in its Biblioteca de Juventud, and the complete edition, published by Calleja, Madrid, 1917, as one of the...
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The Happy ForeignerThe Happy Foreigner"Summer and winter and winter and summer I have travelled in my head, saying'All secrets, all wonders, lie within the breast!' But now that is at an end, and to-morrow I go upon a journey. Humbler guests poured each night from the...
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Mr. Waddington of WyckMr. Waddington of Wyck 1921 Barbara wished she would come back. For the last hour Fanny Waddington had kept on passing in and out of the room through the open door into the garden, bringing in tulips, white, pink, and red tulips, for the...
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An Enemy to the KingAn Enemy to the King - From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of the Sieur de la Tournoire 1897 Hitherto I have written with the sword, after the fashion of greater men, and requiring no secretary. I now take up the quill to set forth,...
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The CentaurThe Centaur 1911 " A man's vision is the great fact about him. Who cares for Carlyle's reasons, or Schopenhauer's, or Spencer's? A philosophy is the expression of a man's intimate character, and all definitions of the Universe are but the deliberately adopted reactions...
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The Armourer's PrenticesThe Armourer's Prentices I have attempted here to sketch citizen life in the early Tudor days, aided therein by Stowes Survey of London, supplemented by Mr. Lofties excellent history, and Dr. Burtons English Merchants. Stowe gives a full account of the relations of apprentices...
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Bertha GarlanBertha GarlanShe was walking slowly down the hill; not by the broad high road which wound its way towards the town, but by the narrow footpath between the trellises of the vines. Her little boy was with her, hanging on to her hand and...
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Life in LondonLife in London - or, the Pitfalls of a Great CityBreathless and excited, George Weston came running down a street in Islington. He knocked at the door of No. 16, and in his impatience, until it was opened, commenced a tattoo with his knuckles...
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The Last TrailThe Last TrailTwilight of a certain summer day, many years ago, shaded softly down over the wild Ohio valley bringing keen anxiety to a traveler on the lonely river trail. He had expected to reach Fort Henry with his party on this night, thus...
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KK The Street stretched away north and south in two lines of ancient houses that seemed to meet in the distance. The man found it infinitely inviting. It had the well-worn look of an old coat, shabby but comfortable. The thought of coming there...
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The Bronze BellThe Bronze BellRoused by this sound from his solitary musings in the parlour-car of which he happened temporarily to be the sole occupant, Mr. David Amber put aside the magazine over which he had been dreaming, and looked out of the window, catching a...
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A Chair on the BoulevardA Chair on the BoulevardThese disjointed thoughts about one of Leonard Merrick's most articulate books must begin with a personal confession. For many years I walked about this earth avoiding the works of Leonard Merrick, as other men might have avoided an onion. This...
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The Two GuardiansThe Two Guardians - or, Home in This WorldIn putting forth another work, the Author is anxious to say a few words on the design of these stories; not with a view to obviate criticism, but in hopes of pointing to the moral, which...
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VivietteViviette"My dear," she said, "whenever I see a pretty girl fooling about with a primitive man I always think of a sweet little monkey I once knew, who used to have great sport with a lyddite shell. Her master kept it on his table...
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