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A Fine Day for DyingLife could be for a whole forest of years, but dying took just as long as one wished. Condemeign reckoned he might as well do the world a bad turn while he was about it. One might as well have...

De Scherpschutters van Zuid-Afrika: Een Verhaal uit den Vrijheidsoorlog 1880-81Hij werpt een nieuw houtblok op het vuur, want het is koud, en het vuur verspreidt een aangename warmte. De vlammen slaan nu hoog uit, en duidelijk kunt ge thans de gelaatstrekken van den man...

The Dare Boys in VincennesIn the cool, darkened room of the improvised Patriot Hospital in Charleston, a young man in the uniform of a Continental, read aloud to his much-bandaged friend. The subject of their attention was a long-delayed letter from the invalid's sister,...

A Paris pair; Their day's doings BY BEATRICE BRADSHAW BROWN ILLUSTRATED BY BARBARA HAVEN BROWN NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 Fifth Avenue {2} Copyright, 1923, By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America...

Last CallA soldier of the Disciplinary Corps hadn't cracked up in all the years of Captain Morrow's service. Bronson was the first ... Bronson who reckoned he was one of the rare beings who had heard THE CALL from Mars. The small cargo rocket...

The VanderlarkThe peculiar quality of deep space is hard to put into words. On earth, however isolated we are, whatever happens to us, we are yet on our home planet. The man afloat on the life raft in the Pacific, delirious with exposure and...

Letters of an Architect, From France, Italy, and Greece. Volume 1 [of 2]Many books of travels in the south of Europe have been published; some of them written by men of talents and information, who were attached to the fine arts, and to architecture...

Puck's Broom - The wonderful adventures of George Henry & his dog Alexander who went to seek their fortunes in the Once upon a time landHow George Henry came into the world, and what Puck and the fairies thought about it. Some wise words...

El BuscapiéIn presenting the Buscapi to the English public, it may not be superfluous, first to explain the title of this literary curiosity, and next to offer a few observations relative to its nature and origin. The title Buscapi seems to have been suggested...

The Android KillThe android slaves, insipid pieces of metal, plastic and skin, were constructed to work and work and help men like Caffrey relax. But someone, somewhere, made this batch too perfect. Caffrey, big tough Caffrey laughed out loud at the tremendous irony of...

ItBefore the Captain's feet fled ghosts of dust. Crackling with static electricity they fled before his body-charge. Ringing out through pools of heat mirage they mushroomed up the toppled walls. In his ears their crackling was laughter. In his brain he screamed at them....

Histoire des ducs de Normandie, suivie de: Vie de Guillaume le ConquérantLes fautes de typographie videntes (lettre manquante ou errone, permutation de deux lettres, espace manquante entre deux mots, virgule la place dun point en fin de phrase, point la place dune virgule dans...

The DancersIt was the hour before dawn. In the middle of the night the big ship had landed on the new planet, the satellite of the sun Proxima. Now they sat in the dark waiting, and they talked. "Two spears, against forty blasters and...

Rogers' Directory of Norwich and NeighbourhoodIt is never pleasant to have to make apologies; and yet there are some circumstances under which an apology is a duty, and therefore, whether pleasant or not, should be tendered cheerfully. The present is a case in point....

Johnny BlossomHAVING made acquaintance with Johnny Blossom in his native land of Norway through the stories about him by Miss Dikken Zwilgmeyer, the desire to introduce the amusing, sound-natured boy to American children has resulted in this translation. Some liberty has been taken with...

La spedizione di Carlo VIII in Italia Non dovrei aver coraggio di presentarle una edizione, che io stesso riconosco s difettosa. Ma la bont che Ella ha per me, e di cui qualche traccia in questo stesso volume, mi fa sperare che l'accoglier come...

Robert Bontine: Roman s schien, als ob das Gewitter sich in wenigen Minuten zusammengezogen htte. Den ganzen Tag war das Wetter wunderschn gewesen, warm und sonnig. Es war schwer zu entscheiden, ob der Himmel oder das Meer tiefer blau sei, an ersterem zeigte sich...

The Great AccidentBY BEN AMES WILLIAMS Author of The Sea Bride, All the Brothers Were Valiant, etc. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1920 All rights reserved Copyright, 1919, By THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY Copyright, 1920, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published...

J. Comyns Carr: Stray Memories, by His WifeMy husband wrote his own Reminiscences in his two booksSome Eminent Victorians and Coasting Bohemia, and it might justly be brought up against me that I could have nothing to add to what he has said himself....

Piong Pan Ho: Oorspronkelijke Indische romanHet was al laat in den morgen van een warmen Oost-moeson-dag. Ratelend sjokte een toko-wagen over den gladden macadam-weg, die de schoone Bodjong-wijk met Semarangs benedenstad verbindt; de kleine Javaansche paarden zonder oogkleppen en een minimum tuig, in vollen...