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At the Earth's Core IN THE FIRST PLACE PLEASE BEAR IN MIND THAT I do not expect you to believe this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I...

The Return of the Native The date at which the following events are assumed to have occurred may be set down as between 1840 and 1850, when the old watering place herein called Budmouth still retained sufficient afterglow from its Georgian gaiety and prestige...

Northanger Abbey This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That any...

Treasure Island To S.L.O., an American gentleman in accordance with whose classic taste the following narrative has been designed, it is now, in return for numerous delightful hours, and with the kindest wishes, dedicated by his affectionate friend, TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER If sailor...

A Tramp Abroad 1.PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR 2.TITIANS MOSES 3.THE AUTHORS MEMORIES 4.THE BLACK KNIGHT 5.OPENING HIS VIZIER 6.THE ENRAGED EMPEROR 7.THE PORTIER 8.ONE OF THOSE BOYS 9.SCHLOSS HOTEL 10.IN MY CAGE 11.HEIDELBERG CASTLE 12.HEIDELBERG CASTLE, RIVER FRONTAGE 13.THE RETREAT 14.JIM BAKER 15."A BLUE...

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Symphony No. 5 in C minor Opus 67 You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90...

United States Census Figures Back to 1630All figures listed below for years before 1992 are US Census Bureau figures as per the source files. Where there were an assortment of figures for a specific year, we averaged them. 1992 was an estimate. Years after...

The Secret Garden When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair...

Violists TEXTUAL NOTE: In this edition words of French origin in the text are spelled without their customary accent marks, due to the limitations of the ASCII medium. It is the author's intent that they be spelled with accents whenever possible (e.g., gateau, tte--tte)....

Freckles FRECKLES, a plucky waif who guards the Limberlost timber leases and dreams of Angels. THE SWAMP ANGEL, in whom Freckles' sweetest dream materializes. MCLEAN, a member of a Grand Rapids lumber company, who befriends Freckles. MRS. DUNCAN, who gives mother-love and a home...

Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman This novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually been treated as fatal to her part of protagonist, or at least as the virtual ending...

Renascence, and Other Poems All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I turned and looked another way, And saw three islands in a bay. So with my eyes I traced the line Of the horizon, thin...

The Return of Sherlock Holmes It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public has already learned those...

Far from the Madding Crowd In reprinting this story for a new edition I am reminded that it was in the chapters of Far from the Madding Crowd, as they appeared month by month in a popular magazine, that I first ventured to adopt...

Jungle Tales of Tarzan TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of the tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring picture of young, feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swinging branch in a near-by...

Persuasion Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; there his faculties were roused...

Inaugural Address of Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Given in Washington, D.C. March 4th, 1933 This is a day of national consecration, and I am certain that on this day my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them...

Around the World in Eighty Days Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to...

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals,...