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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.
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An Eye for an Eye
Anthony Trollope 试读
This article is about the principle of retributive justice. For other uses, see Eye for an eye (disambiguation) and Lex talionis (disambiguation).An eye for an eye or the law of retaliation, is the principle that a person who has injured another person is penalized to a similar degree, or in softer interpretations, the victim receives the [estimated] value of the injury in compensation.
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Kept in the Dark
Anthony Trollope 试读
Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th-century English novelist Anthony Trollope. One of his lesser and later works, it nonetheless has interest. It was published in eight monthly instalments in Good Words in 1882, and also in book form in the same year.
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Orley Farm
Anthony Trollope 试读
Orley Farm is a novel written in the realist mode by Anthony Trollope (1815–82), and illustrated by the Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais (1829–96). It was first published in monthly shilling parts by the London publisher Chapman and Hall. Although this novel appeared to have undersold (possibly because the shilling part was being overshadowed by magazines, such as The Cornhill, that offered a variety of stories and poems in each issue), Orley Farm became Trollope's personal favourite. George Orwell said the book contained "one of the most brilliant descriptions of a lawsuit in English fiction."
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Ralph the Heir
Anthony Trollope 试读
Ralph the Heir is a novel by Anthony Trollope, originally published in 1871. Although Trollope described it as "one of the worst novels I have written",it was well received by contemporary critics. More recently, readers have found it noteworthy for its account of a corrupt Parliamentary election, an account based closely on Trollope's own experience as a candidate.
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My Path to Atheism
Annie Wood Besant 试读
It is the acknowledgment of a previously formed determination to believe at any cost it is a wail of helplessness the very apotheosis of despair. We cannot have history, so let us believe a fairy-tale we can discover nothing, so let us assume anything we cannot find truth, so let us take the first myth that comes to hand. Here I feel compelled to part company with the Dean, and to leave him to believe in, to adore, and to love that which he has himself designated as indistinguishable and undiscernable it may be an act of faith but it is a crucifixion of intellect it may be a satisfaction to the yearnings of the heart, but it dethrones reason and tramples it in the dust. We proceed in our study of the attributes of God. He is represented as the Supreme Will, the Supreme Intelligence, the Supreme Love. As the Supreme Will. What do we mean by "will " Surely, in the usual sense of the word, a will implies the power and the act of choosing. Two paths are open to us, and we will to walk in one rather than in the other. But can we think of power of choice in connection with God Of two courses open to us one must needs be better than the other, else they would be indistinguishable and be only one perfection implies that the higher course will always be taken what then becomes of the power of choice We choose because we are imperfect we do not know everything which bears on the matter on which we are about to exercise our will if we knew everything we should inevitably be driven in one direction, that which is the best possible course. The greater the knowledge, the more circumscribed the will the nobler the nature, the more impossible the lower course. Spinoza points out most clearly that the Divinity could not have made things otherwise than they are made, because any change in his action would imply a change in his nature God, above all, must be bound by necessity. If we believe in a God at...
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Gloria and Treeless Street
Annie Hamilton Donnell 试读
Annie Hamilton Donnell (1862- ) wrote Rebecca Mary (1905), The Very Small Person (1906), Glory and the Other Girl (1907), Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings (1916), Gloria and Treeless Street, Four Girls and a Compact and Three Young Knights. "Gloria sat in her favorite chair on the broad veranda. The shadow of the vines made a delicate tracery over her white dress. Gloria was lazily content. She had been comfortable and content for seventeen years. There's that queer little thing again, going off with her queer little bag " Gloria's gaze dwelt on the house across the wide street. Down its steps a small, neat figure was tripping. Gloria recognized it as an old sightacquaintance. "
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Authors and Friends
Annie Fields 试读
Annie Adams Fields was an American author, born in Boston, Massachusetts, she was the second wife of the publisher and author James Thomas Fields, whom she married in 1854, and with whom she encouraged up and coming writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Freeman, and Emma Lazarus. She was equally at home with great and established figures including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose biography she fearlessly compiled. After Fields' husband died in 1881, she continued to occupy the center of Boston literary life. The hallmark of Fields' work is a sympathetic understanding of her friends, who happened to be the leading literary figures of her time.
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Initials Only
Anna Katharine Green 试读
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The Mayors Wife
Anna Katharine Green 试读
I am not without self-control, yet when Miss Davies entered the room with that air of importance she invariably assumes when she has an unusually fine position to offer, I could not hide all traces of my anxiety. I needed a position, needed it badly, while the others- But her eyes are on our faces, she is scanning us all with that close and calculating gaze which lets nothing escape. She has passed me by-my heart goes down, down-when suddenly her look returns and she singles me out.
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Historical Mysteries
Andrew Lang 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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How to Fail in Literature; a lecture
Andrew Lang 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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Playing With Fire
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 试读
Glasgow is the city of Human Power. It is not a beautiful city, but the gray granite of which it is built gives it a natural nobility. There is nothing romantic about its situation, and its streets are too often steeped in wet, gray mist, or wrapped in yellowish vapor. But there are no loungers in them. The crowd is a busy, hard-working crowd, whose civic motto is Enterprise and Perseverance.
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The Measure of a Man
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 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 Rhythm of Life
Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs
Alfred Ollivant 试读
This is a novel about steeplechase racing and horse training in turn of the century England. It is by the same author who wrote the classic "Bob Son of Battle". This book didn't seem quite as fleshed out as Bob, but provides some interesting insight into the horse racing world at that time, with local characters and dialect. The author was obviously keen on and knew a thing or two about dogs and horses, so his knowledge from the end of the animal age and the beginning of the machine age adds interest to the fairly simple story. Good enough for when you're in the mood for an old fashioned feel good animal story. Also, the e-version of this book is excellent, no weird typos and such.
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Marie; a story of Russian love
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 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.
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Soldier Songs and Love Songs
Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw 试读
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
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The Other Girls
Adeline Dutton Train Whitney 试读
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The Red Romance Book
Andrew Lang 试读
Originally published in 1921. Contents include: How William of Palermo was carried off by the Werwolf - The Disenchantment of the Werwolf - The Slaying of Hallgerda's Husbands - The Death of Gunnar - Njal's Burning - The Lady of Solace - Una and the Lion - How the Red Cross Knight slew the Dragon - Amys and Amyle - The Tale of the Cid - The Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance - The Adventure of the Two Armies who turned out to be Flocks of Sheep - The Adventure of the Bobbing Lights - The Helmet of Mambrino - How Don Quixote was Enchanted while guarding the Castle - Don Quixote's Home-coming - The Meeting of Huon and Oberon, King of the Fairies - How Oberon saved Huon - Havelok and Goldborough - Cupid and Psyche - Sir Bevis the Strong - Ogier the Dane - How the Ass became a Man again - Guy of Warwick - How Bradamante conquered the Wizard - The Ring of Bradamante - The Fulfilling of the Prophecy - The Knight of the Sun - How the Knight of the Sun rescued his Father. Author: Andrew Lang Language: English Keywords: Literature (Novel) / Fairy Stories / High Adventure Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Annie Kilburn – a Novel
William Dean Howells 试读
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Carry On Letters in War-Time
Coningsby Dawson 试读
This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.
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Chip, of the Flying U
B. M. Bower 试读
B. M. (Bertha Muzzy) Bower was the first woman to make a career of writing popular westerns. And what a career it was--more than sixty novels published from 1904 to 1940, the year of her death, and still more posthumously. In the western orbit, Bower was--and still is--a star. Her first, "Chip of the Flying U," lays out a ranch in Montana and introduces the Happy Family, the bunkhouse gang that reappears in her later books. Chip is the typical woman-shy cowboy, but he is also a gifted artist (reputedly, Bower based the character on Charles M. Russell, who illustrated "Chip"). Della, a doctor, is the young woman who disrupts his solitary life. The result as a quality ranch romance. "Chip of the Flying U" was a great success that led to several movie versions, one of them casting Hoot Gibson as Chip. Today's readers who grew up watching westerns on television will appreciate Bower's cinematic style. After living much of her life in Chouteau County, Montana, she moved to Los Angeles, close to the movie industry that increasingly fascinated her.
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Esther – a book for girls
Rosa Nouchette Carey 试读
"I was always sorry that my name was Esther not that I found fault with the name itself, but it was too grave, too full of meaning for such an insignificant person. Some one who was learned in such matters-I think it was Allan-told me once that it meant a star, or good fortune."
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Is Life Worth Living
William Hurrell Mallock 试读
To avoid any chance of confusion or misconception, it will be well to say that these words as used by me have no special reference to the system of Comte or his disciples, but are applied to the common views and position of the whole scientific school, one of the most eminent members of which—I mean Professor Huxley—has been the most trenchant and contemptuous critic that 'positivism' in its narrower sense has met with.
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Kit of Greenacre Farm
Izola Louise Forrester 试读
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La Princesse Flora(French Edition)
Alexandre Dumas 试读
Je suis furieuse contre Moscou, ma chère, parce que tu n'es pas avec moi. Je dois te raconter une foule de choses… mais comment te les écrire ? J'ai tant vu et tant vécu depuis une semaine !
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Luck or Cunning
Samuel Butler 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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My Second Year of the War
Frederick Palmer 试读
...day arrived when along the road toward the front came the Australian battalions, hardened and disciplined by trench warfare, keen-edged in spirit, and ready for the bold task which awaited them at Pozi
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Shelley; an essay
Adolphus Alfred Jack 试读
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Woman and the New Race
Margaret Sanger 试读
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Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature
William James 试读
This collection defining documents from one of America's most influential thinkers presents Pragmatism in its entirety, James's seminal set of lectures in which he argues in his witty and limpid style for the "reasonableness of ordinary experience." Also gathered here are selections from James's other formative works, including The Meaning of Truth, Psychology, The Will to Believe, and Talks to Teachers on Psychology.
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Salthaven
W. W. Jacobs 试读
This early work by William Wymark Jacobs was originally published in 1908 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Salthaven' is one of the author's few full length novels. Jacobs worked as a clerk in the civil service before turning to writing in his late twenties, publishing his first short story in 1895. Most of Jacobs' work appeared before the onset of World War I, and although the majority of his output was humorous in tone, he is best-remembered now for his macabre tales, particularly those contained in his 1902 collection The Lady of the Barge, such as 'The Monkey's Paw' and 'The Toll House'.
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Tales from Bohemia
Robert Neilson Stephens 试读
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
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Paradoxes of Catholicism
Robert Hugh Benson 试读
A collection of essays relating to his conversion to Catholicism.
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Young Lives
Richard Le Gallienne 试读
Richard Thomas Le Gallienne (1866-1947) was an English man of letters, very much associated with the literary world of London in the 1890s. He was born in Liverpool. He started work in an accountant's office, but abandoned this to write. My Ladies' Sonnets appeared in 1887, and in 1889 he became for a short time literary secretary to Wilson Barrett. He joined the staff of The Star in 1891, and wrote for various papers using the signature of Logroller. He contributed to The Yellow Book, and associated with the Rhymer's Club. In 1906 he translated, from the Danish, Peter Nansen's Loves Trilogy. Among his famous works are: English Poems (1892), The Quest of the Golden Girl (1896), Prose Fancies (1896), Young Lives (1899), The Worshipper of the Image (1900), October Vagabonds (1910), The Lonely Dancer, and Other Poems (1913), and A Jongleur Strayed (1922).
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Pardners
Rex Ellingwood Beach 试读
"Most all the old quotations need fixing," said Joyce in tones forbidding dispute. "For instance, the guy that alluded to marriages germinating in heaven certainly got off on the wrong foot. He meant pardnerships. The same works ain't got capacity for both, no more'n you can build a split-second stop-watch in a stone quarry. No, sir A true pardnership is the sanctifiedest relation that grows, is, and has its beans, while any two folks of opposite sect can marry and peg the game out some way. Of course, all pardnerships ain't divine. To every one that's heaven borned there's a thousand made in -. There goes them cussed dogs again " He dove abruptly at the tent flap, disappearing like a palmed coin, while our canvas structure reeled drun-kenly at his impact. The sounds of strife without rose shrilly into blended agony, and the yelps of Keno melted away down the gulch in a rapid and rabid diminuendo.
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Keith of the Border
Randall Parrish 试读
The man was riding just below the summit of the ridge occasionally uplifting his head so as to gaze across the crest shading his eyes with one hand to thus better concentrate his vision.
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Ballad of Reading Gaol
王尔德 试读
Large format for easy reading. Perhaps the most famous poem from the famous dramatist, novelist and poet of the Victorian Era. A celebr ity of his time and still renowned for his barbed wit.The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile either in Berneval or in Dieppe, France, after his release from Reading Gaol on or about 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading, after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.During his imprisonment, on Saturday 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge (ca. 1866 – 7 July 1896) had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen, earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged only 30 when executed. This had a profound effect on Wilde, inspiring the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".
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Daphne, an autumn pastoral
Margaret Pollock Sherwood 试读
"Her Excellency, --will she have the politeness," said Daphne slowly, reading from a tiny Italian-English phrase-book, "the politeness to"--She stopped helpless. Old Giacomo gazed at her with questioning eyes. The girl turned the pages swiftly and chose another phrase. "I go," she announced, "I go to make a walk. "
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Geoffrey Strong
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 试读
The Captain had sold all his lobsters. They had been particularly fine ones and had gone off "like hot cakes" everyone who passed by the wharf stopping to buy one or two. Now the red dory was empty and the Captain had washed her out with his usual scrupulous care and was making preparations for his homeward voyage when he was hailed by a cheery voice from the street.
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Under King Constantine
Katrina Trask 试读
The following tales, which have no legendary warrant, are supposed to belong to the time, lost in obscurity, immediately subsequent to King Arthur's death; when, says Malory, in the closing chapter of LA MORT D'ARTHURE, "Sir Constantine, which was Sir Cadors son of Cornwaile, was chosen king of England; and hee was a full noble knight, and worshipfully hee ruled this realme"
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Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Jerome K. Jerome 试读
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is a collection of humorous and entertaining essays written by popular English humorist Jerome K. Jerome. This work is considered widely to be on the of better works of Jerome, and uses the same style as Three Men in a Boat, but was not nearly as popular as that title. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow is highly recommended for those who enjoy the humorous writings of author Jerome K. Jerome and also for those who are discovering his writings for the first time.
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Under Handicap A Novel
Jackson Gregory 试读
Outside there was shimmering heat and dry thirsty sand miles upon miles of it flashing by in a gray barren blur. A flat arid monotonous land vast threatening waterless treeless. Its immensity awed its bleakness depressed. Man's work here seemed but to accentuate the puny insignificance of man.
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Education as Service
J. (Jiddu) Krishnamurti 试读
In long past lives the author of this little book had much to do with educational work, and he seems to have brought over with him an intense interest in education.
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Madame Delphine
George Washington Cable 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 CAP FITS About two months after the conversation just given, and therefore somewhere about the Christmas holidays of the year 1821, Pere Jerome delighted the congregation of his little chapel with the announcement that he had appointed to preach a sermon in French on the following sabbath?not there, but in the Cathedral.
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Salted with Fire
George MacDonald 试读
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