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The Adventure of the Dying Detective Mrs. Hudson, the landlady of Sherlock Holmes, was a long-suffering woman. Not only was her first-floor flat invaded at all hours by throngs of singular and often undesirable characters but her remarkable lodger showed an eccentricity and irregularity...

The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans In the third week of November, in the year 1895, a dense yellow fog settled down upon London. From the Monday to the Thursday I doubt whether it was ever possible from our windows in Baker Street to...

The Adventure of the Red Circle "Well, Mrs. Warren, I cannot see that you have any particular cause for uneasiness, nor do I understand why I, whose time is of some value, should interfere in the matter. I really have other things to engage...

The Adventure of the Cardboard Box In choosing a few typical cases which illustrate the remarkable mental qualities of my friend, Sherlock Holmes, I have endeavoured, as far as possible, to select those which presented the minimum of sensationalism, while offering a fair field...

The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled...

Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre — Band 8Please take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. We produce about two...

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The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition Duke of Derry's (Pink) Hussars. DEAR MAFFLIN,You will remember that I wrote this story as an Awful Warning. None the less you have seen fit to disregard it and have followed Gadsby's exampleas I betted you...

Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2THOSE who have attended to the practice of our literary tribunal are well aware that, by means of certain legal fictions similar to those of Westminster Hall, we are frequently enabled to take cognisance of cases lying beyond...

Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 Depuis deux sicles les Essais forment une branche importante de la littrature anglaise; pour designer un crivain de cette classe, nos voisins emploient un mot qui na pas dquivalent en francais; ils disent: un essayiste. Quoest-ce quun...

History of Phoenicia 01 (return) [ Die Phnizier, und das phnizische Alterthum, by F. C. Movers, in five volumes, Berlin, 1841-1856.] 02 (return) [ History and Antiquities of Phoenicia, by John Kenrick, London, 1855.] 03 (return) [ Histoire de lArt dans lAntiquit, par MM....

Religions of Ancient China Professor of Chinese at the University of Cambridge, Author of "Historic China," "A History of Chinese Literature," "China and the Chinese," etc., etc. Philosophical Theory of the Universe.The problem of the universe has never offered the slightest difficulty to Chinese...

Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief {This text has been transcribed, corrected, and annotated from its original periodical appearance in Graham's Magazine (Jan.-Apr. 1843), by Hugh C. MacDougall, Secretary of the James Fenimore Cooper Society (jfcooper@wpe.com), who welcomes corrections or emendations.} {Introductory Note: "Autobiography of a...

The Lake Gun {"The Lake Gun" is one of James Fenimore Cooper's very few short stories, and was written in the last year of his life. It was commissioned by George E. Wood for publication in a volume of miscellaneous stories and poems called...