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The FlameGabriele D'Annunzio, poet, novelist, and dramatist, was born in 1864, on the yacht Irene near Pescara in the Abruzzi, his mother being the Duchess Maria Galesse of Rome. His education was begun in the College of Prato, in Tuscany, and finished in the...

Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices Michael took a printed copy of United States Declaration of Independence to the computer laboratory, where he sat at the teletype terminal and typed this first eBook. He distributed it via email to the people he...

Women of Belgium: Turning Tragedy to TriumphBy Herbert Hoover Belgium, after centuries of intermittent misery and recuperation as the cockpit of Europe, had with a hundred years of the peaceful fruition of the intelligence, courage, thrift, and industry of its people, emerged as the...

The Fireless Cook Book - A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 RecipesThe aim of this book is to present in a convenient form such directions for making and using fireless cookers and similar insulating...

The Postal Service (Fifth Edition)No other branch of the Federal Government furnishes employment to so many men as the postal service, particularly that branch of it in which letter carriers and clerks are used. In every city vacancies occur frequently, by reason of death,...

Harper's Young People, November 14, 1882 - An Illustrated Weekly I said, "When will the summer come? Mamma, is it not late?" She smiled, and answered. "By-and-by; Be patient, child, and wait." I asked papa if he would buy A new wax doll for...

Half Around PlutoTheir glassite space helmets fogged, and their metal glove joints stiffened in the incredible surface cold: but the two men who could work finished their job. In the black sky glistened the little arclight of the sun, a sixteen-hundredth of the blaze...

Paris romantique: Voyage en France de Mrs. Trollope (Avril-Juin 1835)VIE DE MRS. TROLLOPE.DATES DE SON VOYAGE A PARIS.COMMENT NOUS AVONS TRADUIT SA CORRESPONDANCE.UNE ANGLAISE CHARME PAR LA SOCIT FRANAISE.QUI ELLE A VU.LODEUR DU CONTINENT.LA POLITIQUE DE MRS. TROLLOPE.LE PROCS MONSTRE.LITTRATURE. Lauteur des souvenirs de...

The Cinder Buggy: A Fable in Iron and SteelI feel as did Mark Sullivan, who said: Garet Garrett has written one of the great novels of the day.... That is beside the point to one who wants to study man and his work.... The...

Welsh Nationality, and How Alone It is to Be Saved: A SermonThe discourses which I have the privilege of delivering in this chapel, are specially addressed to my younger brethren, the undergraduates. I cannot but dwell with pleasure upon the time when I was...

Man AlonePhoenix I belled out smoothly in the region of a G-type star. There was a bright flare as a few random hydrogen atoms were destroyed by the ship's sudden appearance. One moment space had been empty except for the few drifting atoms, and...

Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893 - Being an account of the history, religions, customs, legends, fables, and songs of Gilgit, Chilas, Kandia (Gabrial), Dasin, Chitral, Hunsa, Nagyr, and other parts of the Hindukush, as also a supplement to the second edition of the...

Le Pantalon FémininCest une chose rare quun livre de belle humeur et de relle rudition tout ensemble. Aussi ai-je accept de grand cur de prsenter celui-ci au public, malgr que le vtement qui la inspir me soit un objet dhorreur tout la fois et...

Della architettura gotica Io prendo a ridurre in un corpo solo ed a compendiare le cose, che ho sparsamente scritte sull'Architettura Gotica, secondo le varie occorrenze ora della mia Storia d'Italia ed ora del mio Codice Diplomatico Longobardo. Fondamento primiero d'un tale studio il...

ShandyHolman came down out of the forest of giant orange-woods and trudged across the plain toward the place where Nancy Tanner lived. It was late afternoon and the woods beyond Nancy's home were already growing dark and dim. The door of the old spaceship...

Il fantasma di Canterville e il delitto di Lord Savile Non rifar la biografia d'Oscar Wilde, ormai cosa pubblica, ahim, troppo pubblica. Pi che per la grandezza e la decadenza della sua vita, pi che per la stessa sua opera, Wilde interessa sopratutto per...

The Life, Travels, and Literary Career of Bayard TaylorIt is a solemn yet pleasant duty to compile in comprehensive order the records of a life so eventful and influential as that of Bayard Taylor. It is solemn, because the sad tears which began to...

Aromatics and the Soul: A Study of SmellsHaving, as I thought, completed this bookbar the Preface, which is, of course, always the last chapterI sent it in manuscript to an old friend of mine for his opinion. He let me have it. Your brochure,...

Der Spanier: NovelleWie eine lichte Elfe flog sie zwischen all dem Sonnenschein auf und ab, bestndig von weien Taubenflgeln umspielt. Die dummen und gierigen Geschpfe flatterten immer wieder von der Dachtraufe, oder der Laube, oder dem Taubenschlag auf die Erde, um dort nach irgend...

The Pure ObserversNovna, my dear, I am writing this as a release for my conscience. Those things which trouble me are not such as one exchanges with vigil companions, or indeed with anyone not bound by ties like ours. If I were at home...