Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
William Makepeace Thackeray
DEDICATION TO CAPTAIN SAMUEL LEWIS, OF THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY’S SERVICE. My Dear Lewis, After a voyage, during which the captain of the
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William Makepeace Thackeray
DEDICATION TO CAPTAIN SAMUEL LEWIS, OF THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY’S SERVICE. My Dear Lewis, After a voyage, during which the captain of the
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THE CUBAN-SPANISH WAR: THE DEATH OF RODRIGUEZ [1] Adolfo Rodriguez was the only son of a Cuban farmer, who lived nine miles outside of Santa Clara, beyond the hills that surround
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NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND[*] A NOVEL * The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of the
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Captain Arthur E. Knights Introduction. In 1898 I was in Hongkong on a business affair which gave me much leisure, when Murray Bain, editor of the China Mail, wh
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Notes and Queries Series 1, Vol. 1, Saturday, November 3, 1849 Notes and Queries was the mid-19th century equivalent of an antiquarian newsgroup. It fulfilled the needs
Thomas Henry Huxley Charles Darwin
NOTE ON THE RESEMBLANCES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE STRUCTURE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE BRAIN IN MAN AND APES BY PROFESSOR T. H. HUXLEY, F.R.S. [This ess
Thomas De Quincey
CONTENTS. THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES THE MARQUE
Joseph Conrad
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Jonathan Kochmer
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Robert Frost
By Robert Frost TO E. M. F. THIS BOOK OF PEOPLE CONTENTS The Pasture Mending Wall The Death of the Hired Man
Gilbert Parker
THE ERROR OF THE DAY The "Error of the Day" may be defined as "The difference between the distance or range which must be put upon the sights in order to hit the target and th
Gilbert Parker
INTRODUCTION This book, Northern Lights, belongs to an epoch which is a generation later than that in which Pierre and His People moved. The conditions under which Pierre and
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Jane Austen
ADVERTISEMENT BY THE AUTHORESS, TO NORTHANGER ABBEY This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookselle
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
CHAPTER I. “HASTE TO THE WEDDING.” “Wooed and married and a’.” “Edith!” said Margaret, gently, “Edith!” But as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. S
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Gordon Home
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PREFACE This book is not a guide. It is an attempt to convey by pictures and description a clear impression of the Normandy which awaits the visitor.
Henry James
I. “I wondered whether you wouldn’t read it to me,” said Mrs. Alsager, as they lingered a little near the fire before he took leave. She looked down at the fire sideways, draw
Wilkie Collins
PREFACE. The main purpose of this story is to appeal to the reader’s interest in a subject which has been the theme of some of the greatest writers, living and dead—but which
Gilbert Parker
CHAPTER XVII STRANGERS ARRIVE Dyck Calhoun's letter was never ended. It was only a relic of the years spent in Jamaica, only a sign of his well-being, though it gave no rea