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Gypsys Cousin Joy
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 试读
A story of a brave ,kind, girl, helping other people,giving much to other people.
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Living Up to Billy
Elizabeth Cooper 试读
It is a collection of letters,it tells some little stories in life.
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Greyfriars Bobby
Eleanor Atkinson 试读
When the time-gun boomed from Edinburgh Castle, Bobby gave a startled yelp. He was only a little country dog - the very youngest and smallest and shaggiest of Skye terriers-bred on a heathery slope of the Pentland hills, where the loudest sound was the bark of a collie or the tinkle of a sheep-bell. That morning he had come to the weekly market with Auld Jock, a farm laborer, and the Grassmarket of the Scottish capital lay in the narrow valley at the southern base of Castle Crag. Two hundred feet above it the time-gun was mounted in the half-moon battery on an overhanging, crescent-shaped ledge of rock. In any part of the city the report of the one-o'clock gun was sufficiently alarming, but in the Grassmarket it was an earth-rending explosion directly overhead. It needed to be heard but once there to be registered on even a little dog's brain. Bobby had heard it many times, and he never failed to yelp a sharp protest at the outrage to his ears; but, as the gunshot was always followed by a certain happy event, it started in his active little mind a train of pleasant association
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The Indiscreet Letter
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 试读
The Railroad Journey was very long and slow. The Traveling Salesman was rather short and quick. And the Young Electrician who lolled across the car aisle was neither one length nor another, but most inordinately flexible, like a suit of chain armor.
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Historic Girls
Elbridge Streeter Brooks 试读
MANY and many miles and many days' journey toward the rising sun, over seas and mountains and deserts, - farther to the east than Rome, or Constantinople, or even Jerusalem and old Damascus, - stand the ruins of a once mighty city, scattered over a mounta
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Richard Dares Venture
Edward Stratemeyer 试读
It is high time, mother, that I found something to do. Father seems to be worse, and I'm afraid before long he won't be able to go to work every day. Ever since I finished schooling I've felt like a fish out of water. And stowing away the remainder of the slice of bread he was eating, Richard Dare leaned back in his chair and gazed inquiringly across the breakfast-table to where his mother stood, ready to clear away the dishes when he had finished his meal. "I'm sure you have been busy enough, Richard," responded Mrs. Dare fondly. "I am well satisfied with the way you have planted the garden; and no carpenter could have made a neater job of the front fence. You haven't wasted your time."
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Success with Small Fruits
Edward Payson Roe 试读
Reverend Edward Payson Roe (1838-1888) was an American novelist born in Moodna, Orange County, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S. V., and in 1864 chaplain of Hampton Hospital in Virginia. In 1866-74 he was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Highland Falls, New York. In 1874 he moved to Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, where he devoted himself to the writing of fiction and to horticulture. During the American Civil War he wrote weekly letters to the New York Evangelist, and subsequently lectured on the war and wrote for periodicals. Amongst his novels are: Barriers Burned Away (1872), What Can She Do? (1873), Opening a Chestnut Burr (1874), Success with Small Fruits (1880), A Day of Fate (1880), Without a Home (1881), His Sombre Rivals (1884), A Young Girl's Wooing (1884), An Original Belle (1885), He Fell in Love with His Wife (1886), Driven Back to Eden (1886) The Earth Trembled (1887), Miss Lou (1888), Nature's Serial Story (1889), Taken Alive, and Other Stories (1892), and The Home Acre.
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Without a Home
Edward Payson Roe 试读
1881. Roe writes in the preface that it will soon be discovered that the modern opium or morphia habit has a large place in this volume. The story begins: It was an attractive picture that Martin Jocelyn looked upon through the open doorway of his parlor. His lively daughter Belle had invited half a score of her schoolmates to spend the evening, and a few privileged brothers had been permitted to come also. The young people were naturally selecting those dances which had some of the characteristics of a romp, for they were at an age when motion means enjoyment. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
Edward Eggleston 试读
You think that folks in fine clothes are the only folks that ever see fairies, and that poor folks can't afford them. But in the days of the real old-fashioned "Green Jacket and White Owl's Feather" fairies, it was the poor boy carrying fagots to the cabin of his widowed mother who saw wonders of all sorts wrought by the little people; and it was the poor girl who had a fairy godmother.
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Roast Beef, Medium
Edna Ferber 试读
From the pulitzer prize-winning American novelist, Edna Ferber. Who was heralded as the greatest female author of the 1920s and 1930s and among the best-read authors of her nation.
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Gossip in a Library
Edmund Gosse 试读
A collection of literary criticism first published in 1913 by the author of "Father and Son."
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Jane Allen, Junior
Edith Bancroft 试读
Hard to suit you youngsters, commented Jane. She had fully divested herself of the trappings, and now stood aside while the freshmen surveyed the wreck. Someone suggested getting up surprise theatricals and bringing before the whole college the "ghosts of Lenox," This was a fuse to the bomb of excitement, and presently the roll was called, secrecy pledged, and a committee of arrangements appointed. Prompt freshmen
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Warlord of Mars
Edgar Rice Burroughs 试读
Far to the north, in the frozen wastes of Polar Mars, lay the home of the Holy Therns, sacred and inviolate. Only John Carter dared to go there to find his lost Dejah Thoris. But between him and his goal lay the bones of all who had gone before.
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Songs and Satires
Edgar Lee Masters 试读
Masters' poems are complex yet comprehensible. Though this is a collection of individual poems, certain themes run throughout, such as the idea of "silence" This collection is well worth delving into.
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Myths and Legends of China
E. T. C. Werner 试读
Highly readable, well-illustrated compilation includes myths about the gods of China, stars, water and fire, tales about the goddess of mercy, the guardian of the gate of heaven, other legends.
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The Cinema Murder
E. Phillips Edward Phillips) Oppenheim 试读
The title suggests a classic mystery story. The book instead is a romantic thriller full of melodramatic moments. Characterizations are not always consistent and credible. On the other hand it does provide an unexpected surprise or two.
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The Moccasin Maker
E.Pauline Johnson 试读
Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913), was a Canadian writer and performer. She is often remembered for her poems that celebrate her aboriginal heritage. The Shagganappi (1913) and The Moccasin Maker (1913), posthumous publications, are collections of selected periodical stories Johnson penned on a number of sentimental, didactic, and biographical topics.
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Homes and How to Make Them
Eugene Clarence Gardner 试读
Collection of letters from an Architect relating to the building of houses, first published in the USA in 1874.
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The Magic City
Edith Nesbit 试读
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare’s finesse to Oscar Wilde’s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim’s Progress and Othello.
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The Book of Dragons
Edith Nesbit 试读
In eight highly imaginative tales, beloved children’s author E. Nesbit gives us an extraordinary view of how dragons can shape the fates of princes, queens, and ordinary children alike. With an introduction by Newbery Award winner Ruth Stiles Gannett and line illustrations by H. R. Millar from the original 1901 edition, this middle-grade fantasy classic will enchant all ages.
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In Homespun
Edith Nesbit 试读
Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of In Homespun by E. Nesbit was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of takings a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Scholarship Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book.
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Many Voices
Edith Nesbit 试读
Many Voices, One Echo is about young female insurance industry clericals in Hartford CT during the 60s and how they changed in a changing society. It is for anyone who has ever worked as a clerical in an office. This novel is about girls who didn't go to college, didn't drop out or protest because they were earning a living.
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Oswald Bastable and Others
Edith Nesbit 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Olive A Novel
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 试读
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ... 213 CHAPTER X. " Well, I never in my life knew such a change as Farnwood has made in Miss Manners !" observed old Hannah, the Woodford Cottage maid ; who, though carefully kept in ignorance of any facts that could betray the secret of Christal's history, yet seemed at times to bear a secret grudge against her, as an interloper. " There she comes, riding across the country like some wild thing -- she who used to be so prim and precise !" " Poor young creature, she is like a bird just let out of a cage," said Mrs. Rothesay, kindly. " It is often so with girls brought up as she has been. Olive, I am glad you never went to school." Olive's answer was stopped by the appearance of Christal, followed by one of the young Fludyer boys, with whom she had become a first-rate favourite. Her fearless frankness, her exuberant spirits, tempered only by her anxiety to appear always " the grand lady," made her a welcome guest at Farnwood Hall. Indeed, she was scarce ever at home, save when appearing, as she did now, on hasty visits, which quite disturbed Mrs. Rothesay's placidity, and almost drove old Hannah crazy. " He is not come yet, you see," Christal said, with a mysterious nod to Charley Fludyer. " I thought we should outride him--he can't manage a pony any more than a child. But he will surely be here soon ?" " Who will be here soon?" asked Olive, considerably surprised. " Are you speaking of Mr. Gwynne?" " Mr. Gwynne, no! Far better fun than that, isn't it, Charley ? Shall we tell the secret or not.? Or else shall we tell half of it, and let her puzzle it out till he comes?" The boy nodded assent. " Well, then, there is coming to see you to-day Charley's tutor, who was away for the holidays. He only arrived at Farnwood last night, and since then...
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From the Lips of the Sea
Clinton Scollard 试读
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Through the Wall
Cleveland Moffett 试读
From the author of THE CASE IS CLOSED, a Miss Silver crime novel. When Martin Brand dies leaving his estate to a niece he has only met once, his family are furious. His niece is also disgruntled when she realises she must share her new home with the family. But when a body is found wearing her coat, unhappiness turns to panic.
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The Earlier Work of Titian
Claude Phillips 试读
This book introduces the earlier Work of Titian.To give the fullest and most leditimate expression to the subjects which he presents, and through them to himself.
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Public Speaking
Clarence Stratton 试读
A helpful guide including chapters on the voice, planning speeches, proving and persuading
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Palmistry for All-Cheiro
Cheiro 试读
The book was interesting and well written, also you can learn more about Palmistry.
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The Lances of Lynwood
Charlotte Mary Yonge 试读
A very well written young adult historical novel on the 100 years war set in England, Southern France and Northern Spain. The novel focuses on the last years of Edward, the "Black Prince", beginning with his campaign in Spain in 1367. The protagonist is a squire in the English army in Aquitaine who takes the reader through battles and intrigue, camp and court life in Aquitaine, a siege, and home life in an English castle. As with Charlotte Yonge's other novels and stories there is a strong moral theme of honor.
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Plays and Puritans
Charles Kingsley 试读
Work by Charles Kingsley, a prolific English novelist and author whose main power lay in his descriptive faculties. Kingsley wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons.
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St. Patricks Eve
Charles James Lever 试读
This book tells prosperity has as many duties as adversity has sorrows;People should have obligation to do good enough through life.
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Mudfog and Other Sketches
Charles Dickens 试读
The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of the fictional 'The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything', a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Like The Pickwick Papers, The Mudfog Papers claim affinity with Parliamentary reports, memoirs, and posthumous papers. At the conclusion of his first chapter, about the mayor of the provincial town of Mudfog, Dickens explains that "this is the first time we have published any of our gleanings from this particular source," referring to 'The Mudfog Papers'. He also suggests that "at some future period, we may venture to open the chronicles of Mudfog."
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Indian Boyhood
Charles Alexander Eastman 试读
The autobiography of the first 15 years of the life of Charles Alexander Eastman, a Native American man who was active in politics and issues of Native American rights.
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Miriam Monfort A Novel
Catherine Ann Warfield 试读
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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Marjories Maytime
Carolyn Wells 试读
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.
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Nirvana Days
Cale Young Rice 试读
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Frank Merriwell Down South
Burt L. Standish 试读
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. This text refers to the Bibliobazaar edition.
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A Sappho of Green Springs
Bret Harte 试读
Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902) was a prolific American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. The spirit of Dickens breathes through the poems and stories of Bret Harte just as the spirit of Bret Harte breathes through the poems and stories of Kipling.
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By Shore and Sedge
Bret Harte 试读
On October 10, 1856, about four hundred people were camped in Tasajara Valley, California. It could not have been for the prospect, since a more barren, dreary, mono-tonous, and uninviting landscape never stretched before human eye it could not have been for convenience or contiguity, as the nearest settlement was thirty miles away it could not have been for health or salubrity, as the breath of the ague-haunted tules in the outlying Stockton marshes swept through the valley it could not have been for space or comfort, for, encamped on an unlimited plain, men and women were huddled together as closely as in an urban tenement-house, without the freedom or decency of rural isolation it could not have been for pleasant companionship, as dejection, mental anxiety, tears, and lamentation were the dominant expression it was not a hurried flight from present or impending calamity, for the camp had been deliberately planned, and for a week pioneer wagons had been slowly arriving it was not an irrevocable exodus, for some had already returned to their homes that others might take their places. It was simply a religious revival of one or two denominational sects, known as a "camp-meeting."
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Poems of American Patriotism
Brander Matthews 试读
A collection of poems from some of the finest authors of the 19th century, celebrating American patriotism.
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Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stoker 试读
Adam Salter is newly returned from Australia to inherit his uncle's estate in the Peak District of Derbyshire. He marries Mimi, the dauther of a neighbouring farmer, who has to face alone the evil Edgar Caswall. And then there is the Lady Arabella March, of reptilian beauty and viprous nature... A novel of horror from the author of Dracula
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Gentle Julia
Booth Tarkington 试读
Oh, the responsibilities of a lady who is almost officially the prettiest person in a town, thinks Julia. The burdens are often heavier than the world suspects -- and there are moments she finds the position so trying she would resign, if she could. Worse was the pestering of her family Julia was a warm-hearted, appreciative girl, naturally unable to close her eyes to sterling merit wherever it appeared . . . and it was not without warrant that she complained of her relatives. The whole family, including the children, regaled themselves with her private affairs as a substitute for theater-going Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) wrote with understanding and humor of American middle-class life -- especially the travails and triumphs of the youth of this country.
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Fishing with a Worm
Bliss Perry 试读
A defective logic is the born fisherman's portion. He is a pattern of inconsistency. He does the things which he ought not to do, and he leaves undone the things which other people think he ought to do. He observes the wind when he should be sowing, and he regards the clouds, with temptation tugging familiarly at his heartstrings, when he might be grasping the useful sickle.
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Fannys First Play
George Bernard Shaw 试读
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dublin, Ireland, left mostly to his own devices after his mother ran off to London to pursue a musical career. He educated himself for the most part, and eventually worked for a real estate agent. This experience founded in him a concern for social injustices, seeing poverty and general unfairness afoot, and would go on to address this in many of his works. In 1876, Shaw joined his mother in London where he would finally attain literary success. Written in 1911, Fanny's First Play was at first written anonymously, then later accredited to George Bernard Shaw. This work is a play within a play, with the main intention of satirizing theatre critics.
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At a Winters Fire
Bernard Edward Joseph Capes 试读
"It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose towering snow-flung walls seemed -- as the day sucked inwards to a point secret as a leech's mouth -- to close about me like a monstrous amphitheater of ghosts. . . ." Bernard Edward J. Capes is generally remembered as a writer of eerie fiction, and, as you can see, he had a feel for the form. Included in this volume of his short fiction are "The Moon Stricken," "Jack and Jill," "The Vanishing House," "Dark Dignum," "William Tyrwhitt's 'Copy, '" "A Lazy Romance," "Black Venn," "An Eddy on the Floor," "Dinah's Mammoth," "The Black Reaper," and "A Voice from the Pit."
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The Tale of Ginger and Pickles
Beatrix Potter 试读
(Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was an English author and illustrator, botanist, and conservationist, born in Kensington, London best known for her children's books, which featured animal characters such as Peter Rabbit. Educated at home by a succession of governesses, she had little opportunity to mix with other children. Potter had frogs and newts, and even a pet bat. The basis of her many projects and stories were the small animals that she smuggled into the house or observed during family holidays in Scotland and the Lake District. She was encouraged to publish her story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902), but she struggled to find a publisher until it was accepted when she was 36, by Frederick Warne and Co. The small book and her following works were extremely well received and she gained an independent income from the sales. Potter eventually wrote 23 books. These were published in a small format, easy for a child to hold and read. Her writing efforts abated around 1920 due to poor eyesight.
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In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Christopher Morley 试读
If Bishop Chuff desired to make people stop thinking about alcohol, his plan of seizing them and shutting them up in the grounds of the Federal Home at Cana was a quaint way of attaining this purpose. For all the victims, who had been suddenly arrested in the course of their daily concerns, accused (before a rum-head court martial) of harboring illicit alcoholic desires, and driven over to Cana in crowded motor-trucks, now had very little else to brood about. In the golden light and fragrance of a summer afternoon, here they were surrounded by all the apparatus to restrain alcoholic excess, and not even the slightest exhilaration of spirit to justify the depressing scene.
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Jean of the Lazy A
B. M. Bower 试读
1915. With frontispiece by Douglas Duer. Bower authored several Westerns including Cabin Fever and The Flying U Ranch. This book begins: Without going into a deep, psychological discussion of the elements in men's souls that breed events, we may say with truth that the Lazy A ranch was as other ranches in the smooth tenor of its life until one day in June, when the finger of fate wrote bold and black across the face of it the word that blotted out prosperity, content, war family ties, -all those things that go to make life worth while. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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Obiter Dicta
Augustine Birrell 试读
Is it necessary that they should be the record of a noble character? Certainly not. We remember Pepys, who--well, never mind what he does. We call to mind Cellini; he runs behind a fellow-creature, and with 'admirable address' sticks a dagger in the nape of his neck, and long afterwards records the fact, almost with reverence, in his life's story. Can anything be more revolting than some portions of the revelation Benjamin Franklin was pleased to make of himself in writing? And what about Rousseau?
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Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
August Wilhelm Von Schlegel 试读
the Lectures of A. W. SCHLEGEL on Dramatic Poetry have obtained high celebrity on the Continent and been much alluded to of late in several publications in this country
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Historical Miniatures
August Strindberg 试读
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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The Great God Pan
Arthur Machen 试读
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE INMOST LIGHT I One evening in autumn, when the deformities of London were veiled in faint blue mist, and its vistas and far - reaching streets seemed splendid, Mr. Charles Salisbury was slowly pacing down Rupert Street, drawing nearer to his favourite restaurant by slow degrees. His eyes were downcast in study of the pavement, and thus it was that as he passed in at the narrow door a man who had come up from the lower end of the street jostled against him.
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The House of Souls
Arthur Machen 试读
The House of Souls is a collection of supernatural, horror stories that will capture the reader's attention from the first paragraph. Arthur Machen, (1863-1947) was a Welsh novelist, short story writer, journalist and actor. He wrote horror, fantasy and supernatural fiction. His love of Celtic, Roman and medieval history is seen in many of his stories. Stories in this collection include A fragment of Life, The White People, The Great God Pan, and The Inmost Light.
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Over the Top
Arthur Guy Empey 试读
Claudia Monroe discovers that life doesn't always favor her dreams when deadly obstacles are thrown on her path to success. As the new owner of OverTheTop Gym, Claudia Monroe struggles to keep her business up and running after her top personal trainer is found murdered. A short time later, one of the trainer's clients is killed in his home. The stakes become personal as a series of threatening events force Claudia to investigate the murders using methods she never imagined. Claudia valiantly attempts solid marketing strategies and best business practices to stay afloat in the fitness industry, while involving her donut eating assistant, Charlene, and the ever stealth detective, Mitch, in her attempts figure out why the murders seem to involve her. Staying alive becomes a fitness goal she fights to achieve. Realizing she can trust very few people, she picks up her game pursuing answers to questions that may keep her alive. Claudia's professional relationship with one of her 'to die for clients' becomes closer when he insists on providing her with increased security measures as the investigation continues. Black cats, black shoes, and dark romances clutter life's journey as Claudia pieces the puzzle together. In the end, none of her protection plans are sufficient enough to save her from the ultimate encounter
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Beyond the City
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
If you please, mum, said the voice of a domestic from somewhere round the angle of the door, "number three is moving in. Two little old ladies, who were sitting at either side of a table, sprang to their feet with ejaculations of interest, and rushed to the window of the sitting-room. "Take care, Monica dear," said one, shrouding herself in the lace curtain; "don't let them see us. "No, no, Bertha. We must not give them reason to say that their neighbors are inquisitive. But I think that we are safe if we stand like this." The open window looked out upon a sloping lawn, well trimmed and pleasant, with fuzzy rosebushes and a star-shaped bed of sweet-william. It was bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a broad, modern, new metaled road. At the other side of this road were three large detached deep-bodied villas with peaky eaves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers. All three were equally new, but numbers one and two were curtained and sedate, with a human, sociable look to them; while number three, with yawning door and unkempt garden, had apparently only just received its furniture and made itself ready for its occupants. A four-wheeler had driven up to the gate, and it was at this that the old ladies, peeping out bird-like from behind their curtains, directed an eager and questioning gaze.
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The Adventure of the Dying Detective
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1917 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography as part of our Sherlock Holmes series. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of detective Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist who was to eventually make Conan Doyle's reputation. A prolific writer, Conan Doyle continued to produce a range of fictional works over the following years. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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The Great Boer War
Arthur Conan Doyle 试读
A very thorough account, including tables at the end of those killed or wounded up until the 8th September when he left South Africa. This account is compiled with as much accuracy as was attainable at this date, and with as much detail as a single volume will permit. In frequent conversations with Boers, Conan Doyle has endeavoured to get their views upon both political and military questions. Often the only documents he had to consult were the convalescent officers and men under his care, therefore some errors may have crept in. The closing scenes of the Boer War have necessarily been treated with less detail than the earlier.
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The Dream Doctor
Arthur Benjamin Reeve 试读
Arthur Benjamin Reeve (1880-1936), was a graduate of Princeton and attended New York Law School. He is best known for creating the series character Professor Craig Kennedy, sometimes called "The American Sherlock Holmes," and for writing 18 mystery detective novels. His works include: The Black Hand (1911), The Deadly Tube (1911), The Poisoned Pen (1912), The Silent Bullet (1912), The Dream Doctor (1914), Guy Garrick (1914), The Exploits of Elaine (1915), Gold of the Gods (1915), The War Terror (1915), The Ear in the Wall (1916), Constance Dunlap (1916), The Romance of Elaine (1916), The Treasure-Train (1917), Master Mystery (1919), The Film Mystery (1921), The Fourteen Points (1925), The Radio Detective (1926), The Golden Age of Crime (1931) and The Stars Scream Murder (1936).
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Sacred and Profane Love
Arnold Bennett 试读
This article is about the painting by Titian. For the 1921 film, see Sacred and Profane Love (film). For the novel, see Arnold Bennett.Sacred and Profane Love (Italian: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano, also called Venus and the Bride) is an oil painting by Titian, painted c. 1514. The painting is presumed to have been commissioned by Niccolò Aurelio, a secretary to the Venetian Council of Ten (so identified because his coat of arms appears on the sarcophagus or fountain in the centre of the image) to celebrate his marriage to a young widow, Laura Bagarotto. It perhaps depicts the bride dressed in white, sitting beside Cupid and being assisted by Venus in person.