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Don't Think About ItTommy wasn't really a timid child. Sometimes he didn't understand things and was puzzled. More often, grown-ups couldn't or wouldn't understand things that were perfectly clear to him and he was more puzzled. Occasionally such things worried and even upset him...

A Belle of the Fifties - Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-1866. Put into narrative form by Ada SterlingThe memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, by which title Mrs. Clement C. Clay, Jr....

The Empresses of RomeThe story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of mans deeds and failures have a more dramatic quality. Seven centuries before our era opens, when the greater part...

Satujen maailma I: Suomen kansan sadut I kokoelmaOlipa kerran ukko ja akka, vanhat kumpikin, niin vanhat, ett elm en vain pienell langalla heiss pysyi. Ei heill ollut lapsia, mutta eivt he sit surreet, vaan olivat tyytyvisi oloonsa. Ukko metsst lintuja pyysi, akka jrvest kaloja....

"Muru": Huvinäytelmä yhdessä näytöksessäSTORMFELT (Vet hnet nauraen luoksensa ja hyvilee hnt). Mit se Muru siell puuhaa? Kas niin, Muru lhn nyt rupea juonittelemaan, vaikka min laskenkin vhn leikki sinun kanssasi. Kyllhn me muuten olemme hyvi ystvi. (Vet nenliinan hnen suustansa ja suutelee hnt). Se...

Komet und Erde: Eine astronomische ErzählungWas wir hier erzhlen wollen, ist kein Phantasiegebilde, das aus den Gefilden einer oft nur zu schpferischen Einbildung hervorgegangen ist; vielmehr haben eingehende Studien das Material hierzu geliefert, und auf wissenschaftlichem Boden ist unser Bericht gewachsen. Der Komet, den...

Our National Parks In this book, made up of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly, I have done the best I could to show forth the beauty, grandeur, and all-embracing usefulness of our wild mountain forest reservations and parks, with a view to...

The Contact PointLieutenant Lloyd spotted the first alien in the ruins of the strange red Martian city on the second day of exploration. His first impulse was to call out to the other menbut then, afraid his voice would startle the creature down at...

Comedias escogidasNi el carcter atribudo Moratn, ni mucho menos sus obras, concebidas despacio, y ms que limadas, sobadas con meticuloso esmero de artfice, haran sospechar lo azaroso y revuelto de su vida trashumante. Sin el arraigo que slo dan en Espaa heredados patrimonios, fu...

Captains of Harley: A School StoryHe was glad that nobody had come to see him off, for he had now the satisfaction of knowing that his own father was a father more worth having than any other he had seen yet. Also he could...

Paimenpoika alppimajallaKun on jttnyt maantien, joka kulkee yls pitkin Prttigaun pitk laaksoa, saa viel aikamatkan nousta jyrknnett tullakseen Fiderisin kylpylaitokselle. Niin vaivaloisesti lhtten ponnistavat silloin hevoset vuorta ylspin, ett matkustaja mieluummin nousee ajopeleist ja kiipe jalan vihrelle kukkulalle. Pitkhkn nousun perst saavutaan ensin Fideris-nimiseen...

Paris tel qu'il estCette union, admirablement assortie, ne tarda pas tre heureuse; tout fait prvoir l'heureux poux qu'il aura la joie de voir son nom perptu d'ge en ge, et que du haut du ciel, leur demeure dernire, ses nobles aeux vont sourire. D'o...

The Rainbow CatTO HIS GREAT ASTONISHMENT, HE SAW NO GIANTESS, BUT A VERY NASTY-LOOKING OLD WIZARD WITH A LONG GREY BEARD AND AN ENORMOUSLY TALL HAT, WHO SAT IN A LARGE ROOM IN FRONT OF A GREAT OPEN FIRE. THERE was once a cat...

Murder Beneath the Polar IceWavelets of cigarette smoke drifted across the comfortably lounging enlisted men in the air-conditioned compartment of the Fleet Ballistic Missile submarine, as they sat watching Barney. Sweat streaming from his swollen-veined forehead, hurried and grotesque in his black rubber diving...

VassiThe apartment is called a single. It contains a Murphy bed, a chest of drawers, an overstuffed chair, a sofa, a coffee table, a seventeen-inch television set, a bookcase partially filled with the volumes A through F of an encyclopedia from the supermarket, assorted...

Opettaja: RomaaniSill tm Yl-Karjala, jonne hn nyt asettuisi opettajana vaikuttamaan, oli vetnyt hnt puoleensa kuin Lapin kes joutsenta. Siihen olivat syyn syvt, sielulliset vaikuttimet. Itse luontoa ja sen kansaa ei hn ollut koskaan ennen nhnytkn. Mutta sen hn tiesi, ett tm osa isnmaata oli...

With Axe and Rope in the New Zealand AlpsThis short work contains the story of five seasons climbing and exploring in the New Zealand Alps. Most of the material embodied in it has already appeared from time to time, in rather a different form,...

No titleUn Procureur qui avoit consum toute sa jeunesse runer de pauvres Plaideurs, voulant, comme l'on dit, faire une fin, rsolut de consacrer l'himen quelques annes qui lui restoient vivre. Il jetta, pour cet effet, les yeux sur la veuve d'un de ses Confreres:...

Dialogue between John and Thomas, on the Corn Laws, the Charter, Teetotalism, and the Probable Remedy for the Present DisstressesT. Deed John Im truly at a loss mysel to ken what would be the best remedy, but it is plain we would need some...

Dostoïevsky (Articles et Causeries)La masse norme de Tolsto encombre encore l'horizon; maisainsi qu'il advient en pays de montagnes o l'on voit, mesure que l'on s'en loigne, par-dessus la plus proche cime, la plus haute, que la plus voisine cachait, reparatrequelques esprits avant-coureurs peut-tre remarquent-ils...