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The Daughters of Danaus
Mona Caird 试读
This brilliantly witty novel (1894) follows the lives of two sisters in a wealthy Scots family. One escapes to a profession in London and eventually a decent marriage while the heroine, Hadria, vows to become a composer in Paris, but is thwarted. The novel reveals the power of marriage and the family hold in controlling the lives of talented, spirited women; but unlike other oppressed heroines of the period, Hadria and her feminism both survive. The books includes a trailblazing essay on marriage published by Caird, a visionary novelist and social critic.
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The Delectable Duchy
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 试读
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch wrote short stories, novels, and criticism -- and edited anthologies, including the "Oxford Book" series. He was Assistant Editor of the Liberal weekly "The Speaker," and from 1912 until his death was Professor of English at Cambridge University. Writing under the pen name "Q," Quiller-Couch produced a variety of work, including adventure stories, historical fiction, satire, stories of the supernatural, and mysteries. "The Delectable Duchy" is a collection of stories about the Cornwall area of Britain, inspired by a journalist friend who comes for a visit to learn what Cornwall is like. He has spent a week in Cornwall, and wishes to spend a day with Q learning about his particular area. Q despairs of spinning out the story of "his little nook" for a whole day, and realizes "that my love for this spot is built up of numberless trivialities, of small memories all incommunicable, or ridiculous when communicated; a scrap of local speech heard at this corner, a pleasant native face remembered in that doorway, a battered vessel dropping anchor," and the stories in the collection are the result.
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The Descent of Man and Other Stories
伊迪丝·华顿 试读
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century (two stories, however, are set in Italy). Fidelity is only one problem; others may arise from the machinations and emotions of the protagonists or outsiders. Wharton handles the questions with her usual gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) irony and curiosity about human behavior.
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The Dove in the Eagles Nest
Charlotte Mary Yonge 试读
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The Flower of the Chapdelaines
George Washington Cable 试读
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The Girl in the Golden Atom
Raymond King Cummings 试读
Then you mean to say there is no such thing as the smallestparticle of matter? asked the Doctor. "You can put it that way ifyou like," the Chemist replied. "In other words, what I believe isthat things can be infinitely small just as well as they can beinfinitely large. Astronomers tell us of the immensity of space. Ihave tried to imagine space as finite. It is impossible. How canyou conceive the edge of space? Something must be beyond-somethingor nothing, and even that would be more space, wouldn't it?""Gosh," said the Very Young Man, and lighted another cigarette. TheChemist resumed, smiling a little. "Now, if it seems probable thatthere is no limit to the immensity of space, why should we make itssmallness finite? How can you say that the atom cannot be divided?As a matter of fact, it already has been. The most powerfulmicroscope will show you realms of smallness to which you canpenetrate no other way. Multiply that power a thousand times, orten thousand times, and who shall say what you will see?"
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The Great Prince Shan
E. Phillips Oppenheim 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 Human Chord
Algernon Blackwood 试读
"WANTED, by Retired Clergyman, Secretarial Assistant with courage and imagination. Tenor voice and some knowledge of Hebrew essential; single; unworldly. Apply Philip Skale." Robert Spinrobin needed the work, and he took the bait. He possessed the necessary qualifications: a thin tenor voice, not unmusical; a smattering of Hebrew which he had picked up at Cambridge because he liked the fine, high-sounding names of deities and angels; and courage and imagination.It was a job he lived to regret. For he was meant to be the final note in a "human chord" designed to call out the true name of God . . . which could prove the greatest blessing or the worst curse in all of creation!
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The Inventions of the Idiot
John Kendrick Bangs 试读
It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his "alleged mind" on plans for the amelioration of the condition of the civilized. "The trials of the barbarian are really nothing as compared with the tribulations of civilized man," he said, as the waitress passed him a piece of steak that had been burned to a crisp. "In the Cannibal Islands a cook who would send a piece of broiled missionary to her employer's table in this condition would herself be roasted before another day had dawned. We, however, must grin and bear it, because our esteemed landlady cannot find anywhere in this town a woman better suited for the labors of the kitchen than the blank she has had the misfortune to draw in the culinary lottery, familiarly known to us, her victims, as Bridget."
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The Isles of Sunset
Arthur Christopher Benson 试读
About midway between the two horns of the bay, the Isles of Sunset pierced the sea. There was deep blue water all around them, and the sharp and fretted pinnacles of rock rose steeply up to heaven. The top of the largest was blunt, and covered with a litt.
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The Lady Paramount
Henry Harland 试读
Although born in New York Henry Harland began his writing career pretending to be Russian under the pseudonym Sidney Laska. During this first phase of his literary career he produced sensational novels with little literary quality. In 1890 he moved to London and began work under his own name. He was influenced by the Aesthetic movement and began producing quality works. He came into his own as a writer with The Cardinal's Snuffbox and The Lady Paramount. The Lady Paramount is an excellent example of Harland's humorous touch and his picturesque style.
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The Light That Lures
Percy James Brebner 试读
Seated on a green hummock, his knees drawn up, his elbows resting on his knees and his head supported in his open hands, a boy sat very still and preoccupied, gazing straight into the world before him, yet conscious of little beyond the visions conjured up by his young mind. His were dim visions begot of the strenuous times in which he lived, and which were the staple subject of conversation of all those with whom he came in contact, yet his shadowy dreams had something of the past in them, and more, far more, of that future which to youth must ever be all important. But this young dreamer was not as dreamers often are, with muscle subservient to brain, the physical less highly developed than the mental powers; on the contrary, he was a lad well knit together, his limbs strong and supple, endurance and health unmistakable, a lad who must excel in every manly exercise and game. Perhaps it was this very superiority over his fellows which, for the time being, at any rate, had made him a dreamer. While other boys, reproducing in their games that which was happening about them, fought mimic battles, inflicted and suffered mimic death, experienced terrible siege in some small copse which to their imagination stood for a beleaguered city, or carried some hillock by desperate and impetuous assault, this boy, their master in running, in swimming, in wrestling, in sitting a horse as he galloped freely, was not content with mimicry, but dreamed of real deeds in a real future.
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The Moon Metal
Garrett Putman Serviss 试读
When the news came of the discovery of gold at the south pole, nobody suspected that the beginning had been reached of a new era in the world's history. The newsboys cried "Extra " as they had done a thousand times for murders, battles, fires, and Wall Street panics, but nobody was excited. In fact, the reports at first seemed so exaggerated and improbable that hardly anybody believed a word of them. Who could have been expected to credit a despatch, forwarded by cable from New Zealand, and signed by an unknown name, which contained such a statement as this
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The Moon-Voyage
Jules Verne 试读
The Moon Voyage compiles From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. From the Earth to the Moon is a humorous science fantasy novel that tells the story of the president of a post-American Civil War gun club in Baltimore, his rival, a Philadelphia maker of armor, and a Frenchman, who built an enormous sky-facing Columbiad space gun and launched themselves with intentions of a Moon landing. Around the Moon is Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon in which a bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begin the five-day trip to the moon. Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. He was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
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The Penalty
Gouverneur Morris 试读
If I should lose from my life that part of it of which you are a part, there would be but a skeleton left. Yet if you had played a larger part in my life I should have been so spoiled that there would be no living with me. And I'm spoiled enough, God knows!
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The Ragged Edge
Harold MacGrath 试读
The Master is inordinately fond of young fools. That is why they are permitted to rush in where angels fear to tread—and survive their daring! This supreme protection, this unwritten warranty to disregard all laws, occult or apparent, divine or earthly, may be attributed to the fact that none but young fools dream gloriously. For such of us as pretend to be wise—and we are but fools in a lesser degree—we know that humanity moves onward only by the impellant of fine dreams. Sometimes these dreams are simple and tender; sometimes they are magnificent.
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The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents
赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯 试读
The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents is a collection of fifteen fantasy and science fiction stories by H. G. Wells. It was Wells's first book of short stories. Included are: The Stolen Bacillus, The Flowering of the Strange Orchid, In the Avu Observatory, The Triumphs of a Taxidermist, A Deal in Ostriches, Through a Window, The Temptation of Harringay, The Flying Man, The Diamond Maker, AEpyornis Island, The Remarkable Case of Davidson's Eyes, The Lord of the Dynamos, The Hammerpond Park Burglary, The Moth, The Treasure in the Forest. Herbert George "H. G." Wells was an English writer best known for his work in science fiction. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing textbooks and rules for war games. His most notable science fiction works include The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The Island of Doctor Moreau
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The Trumpeter Swan
Temple Bailey 试读
It had rained all night, one of the summer rains that, beginning in a thunder-storm in Washington, had continued in a steaming drizzle until morning. There were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of them-two in adjoining sections in the middle of the car, a third in the drawing-room, a fourth an intermittent occupant of a berth at the end. They had gone to bed unaware of the estate or circumstance of their fellow-travellers, and had waked to find the train delayed by washouts, and side-tracked until more could be learned of the condition of the road. The man in the drawing-room shone, in the few glimpses that the others had of him, with an effulgence which was dazzling. His valet, the intermittent sleeper in the end berth, was a smug little soul, with a small nose which pointed to the stars. When the door of the compartment opened to admit breakfast there was the radiance of a brocade dressing-gown, the shine of a sleek head, the staccato of an imperious voice.
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The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
Richard Garnett 试读
Best known for his non-fiction and biographies, Richard Garnett published this collection of his short stories in 1888. "The Twilight of the Gods and Other Tales" includes the title story, in which a mortal girl meets Prometheus on a mountain top "The Demon Pope," in which a Pope makes good on a favor owed to Lucifer, "Alexander the Ratcatcher," in which Alexander the Eighth enlists the aid of a mysterious rat-killer "The Elixir of Life," in which the sage Aboniel issues a challenge to his seven trusted disciples "The Philosopher and the Butterflies," in which a scholar holds discourse with insects in the garden and twenty-three other tales.
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The Two Vanrevels
Booth Tarkington 试读
It was long ago in the days when men sighed when they fell in love when people danced by candle and lamp, and did dance, too, instead of solemnly gliding about in that mellow time so long ago, when the young were romantic and summer was roses and wine, old Carewe brought his lovely daughter home from the convent to wreck the hearts of the youth of Rouen. That was not a far journey only an afternoon's drive through the woods and by the river, in an April, long ago Miss Betty's harp carefully strapped behind the great lumbering carriage, her guitar on the front seat, half-buried under a mound of bouquets and oddly shaped little bundles, farewell gifts of her comrades and the good Sisters. In her left hand she clutched a small lace handkerchief, with which she now and then touched her eyes, brimmed with the parting from Sister Cecilia, Sister Mary Bazilede, the old stone steps and all the girls: but for every time that she lifted the dainty kerchief to brush away the edge of a tear, she took a deep breath of the Western woodland air and smiled at least twice
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The Vicar of Bullhampton
Anthony Trollope 试读
"The Vicar of Bullhampton" (1870) by Anthony Trollope is a particularly strong work that features all the British Victorian elements that the author is better known for: relationships, family bonds, intricate romantic entanglements, bittersweet nostalgia, social commentary, and delightful humor.
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The Virgin of the Sun
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
A tale that deals with the marvellous Incas of Peru with the legend also that, long before the Spanish Conquerors entered on their mission of robbery and ruin, there in that undiscovered land lived and died a White God risen from the sea.
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The Vision of Desire
Margaret Pedler 试读
"… It's no use pretending any longer. I can't marry you, I don't suppose you will ever understand or forgive me. No man would. But try to believe that I haven't come to this decision hurriedly or without thinking. I seem to have done nothing but think, lately!
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The White Linen Nurse
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 试读
The White Linen Nurse was so tired that her noble expression ached. Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of her felt permanently incapaci-tate
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The Worlds Desire
Andrew Lang 试读
Odysseus is an older man now, the lone survivor of a plague that has swept away all that he knew & loved on Ithaca. Shifting his fealty from Athena to Aphrodite, he embarks on a new voyage, one that leads him to Egypt during the time of Moses. As an outsider, he brings a unique perspective to the Biblical tale -- and it never bogs down in too much Victorian piety, either. The emphasis is on story, first & foremost.
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True Tilda
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 试读
This delightful children's story opens with the heroine Tilda recuperating in a hospital after being kicked by a performing pony in the circus she calls home. She makes a promise to a fellow patient and sets out, aided by her dog, 'Dolph, to find one Arthur Miles Chandon, the patient's son, currently residing in the Holy Innocents Orphanage. They both escape the orphanage, but upon returning to the hospital, they find that Arthur's mother has died. Tilda and Arthur then head out on an quest to find a place called Holmness, encountering old friends, new friends and a few enemies along the way.
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Une vie(French Edition)
Guy de Maupassant 试读
Cette uvre ( dition reli ) fait partie de la s rie TREDITION CLASSICS. La maison d' dition tredition, bas e Hambourg, a publi dans la s rie TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux mill naires. Ils taient pour la plupart puis s ou uniquement disponible chez les bouquinistes. La s rie est destin e pr server la litt rature et promouvoir la culture. Avec sa s rie TREDITION CLASSICS, tredition comme but de mettre disposition des milliers de classiques de la litt rature mondiale dans diff rentes langues et de les diffuser dans le monde entier.
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Vanguards of the Plains A Romance of the Old Santa Fe Trail
Margaret Hill McCarter 试读
This story of the old Santa Fé Trail would do honor to the memory of those stalwart men who defied the desert, who walked the prairies boldly, and who died bravely--vanguards in the building of a firm highway for the commerce of a westward-moving Empire.
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Criticism and Fiction
William Dean Howells 试读
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.
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Prisoners of Conscience
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 试读
Prisoners of Conscience continues the work begun by Gerard A. Hauser in Vernacular Voices: The Rhetoric of Publics and Public Spheres, winner of the National Communication Association's Hochmuth Nichols Award. In his new book, Hauser examines the discourse of political prisoners, specifically the discourse of prisoners of conscience, as a form of rhetoric in which the vernacular is the main source of available appeals and the foundation for political agency. Hauser explores how modes of resistance employed by these prisoners constitute what he deems a "thick moral vernacular" rhetoric of human rights. Hauser's work considers in part how these prisoners convert universal commitments to human dignity, agency, and voice into the moral vernacular of the society and culture to which their rhetoric is addressed. Hauser grounds his study through a series of case studies, each centered on a different rhetorical mechanism brought to bear in the act of resistance. Through a transnational rhetorical analysis of resistance within political prisons, Hauser brings to bear his skills as a rhetorical theorist and critic to illuminate the rhetorical power of resistance as tied to core questions in contemporary humanistic scholarship and public concern.
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Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes
Ella Cheever Thayer 试读
The story is built around young telegraph operator Nattie, who begins a flirtation "over the wire" with the mysterious Clem at a telegraph station some miles away. Along with Nattie and Clem there are all of the interesting characters who live at Nattie's boarding house, the dashing singer Cyn, the artist Jo, clumsy Quimby who is hopelessly in love with Nattie, along with various other tenants and landladies.
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The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales
Francis Alexander Durivage 试读
The volume here submitted to the public is composed of selections from my contributions to the columns of the American press. The stories and sketches were written, most of them, in the intervals of relaxation from more serious labor and the daily business of life; and they would be suffered to disappear in the Lethe that awaits old magazines and newspapers, had not their extensive circulation, and the partial judgment of friends,—for I must not omit the stereotyped plea of scribblers,—flattered me that their collection in a permanent form would not prove wholly unacceptable. Some of these articles were published anonymously, or under the signature of "The Old 'Un," and have enjoyed the honor of adoption by persons having no claim to their paternity; and it seems time to call home and assemble these vagabond children under the paternal wing.(This paragraph from the first chapter)
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The Son of Clemenceau A Novel of Modern Love and Life A Sequel to The Clemenceau Case
Alexandre Dumas 试读
Alexandre Dumas "fils" was the illegitimate son of a Paris dressmaker and the renowned author of "The Three Musketeers." Dumas "pre" took him from his mother as a child (French law then allowed that), and gave the child a marvelous education at schools that included the Institution Goubaux and the Collge Bourbon -- but he could not take from the child the memory of his mother. Dumas "fils" spent much of his life writing of the loss of her -- in works like "Camille" and this novel, "The Son of Clemenceau." Alexandre Dumas "fils" died at Marly-le-Roi, Yvelines, on November 27, 1895; he is buried in the Cimetire de Montmartre in Paris.
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A Comedy of Masks A Novel
Arthur Moore 试读
In that intricate and obscure locality, which stretches between the Tower and Poplar, a tarry region, scarcely suspected by the majority of Londoners, to whom the "Port of London" is an expression purely geographical, there is, or was not many years ago, to be found a certain dry dock called Blackpool, but better known from time immemorial to skippers and longshoremen, and all who go down to the sea in ships, as "Rainham's Dock."
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A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods
Bessie Marchant 试读
This review is for A Countess from Canada: A Story of Life in the Backwoods. I found it to be an enjoyable, easy-to-read, morally clean romance that takes place in the 1800's in the Canadian wilds. The main character is Katharine, a young woman with a lot on her shoulders who runs a trading post in a remote area of Canada. (Place names include Akiminski Island, Mattagami River, Abbitibbi River, Hannah Bay, Lake Temiskaming, Fort Garry, Marble Island [800 miles away], Maxokama, Seal Cove, Roaring Water Portage). Detailed characterizations of the local people.
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A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today
William MacLeod Raine 试读
For hours Manuel Pesquiera had been rolling up the roof of the continent in an observation-car of the "Short Line." His train had wound in and out through a maze of bewildering scenery, and was at last dipping down into the basin of the famous gold camp.
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A Daughter of the Land
Gene Stratton-Porter 试读
A Daughter of the Land (1918) by Gene Stratton Porter is, above all, a love song of a woman and the land from which she sprung.
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A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
Charles King 试读
1902. Also illustrated by Edwin Willard Deming. While many of his books were written under the name Captain Charles King, for some he is listed as General. The literary novels of Charles King are ones of Victorian ideals, morals and views played out on western frontiers, the Civil War, and the Spanish Philippines. His often melodramatic stories are based on personal adventures and experiences with detailed observations and opinions arising from specific times and places. Publishing over 60 novels and numerous short stories, King was a popular author in his day, yet today is known mostly for one title, Campaigning With Crook. The book begins: The major commanding looked up from the morning report and surveyed the post adjutant with something of perturbation, if not annoyance, in his grim, gray eyes. For the fourth time that week had Lieutenant Field requested permission to be absent for several hours. The major knew just why the junior wished to go and where. The major knew just why he wished him not to go, but saw fit to name almost any other than the real reason when, with a certain awkward hesitancy he began: W-ell, is the post return ready? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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A Daughter of To-Day
Sara Jeannette Duncan 试读
Sara Jeannette Duncan, later Cotes (1861-1922), was a Canadian author and journalist. She first worked as a schoolteacher before taking up journalism as a full-time occupation. Various freelancing work led to her taking her first position at the Washington Post in 1885. In 1886, she made history as the first woman to be hired as a professional journalist in Canada, taking a regular position at the Toronto Globe, now the Globe and Mail. She later moved to the Montreal Star, where she was the paper s Parliamentary correspondent. She published 22 books, including two volumes of personal sketches and a collection of short stories. Her first book, A Social Departure: How Orthodocia and I Went Around the World by Ourselves (1890) documented an around-the-world trip, but she is best known today for her 1904 novel The Imperialist. Amongst her other works are: A Daughter of Today (1894), The Story of Sonny Sahib (1894), A Voyage of Consolation (1898), The Path of a Star (1898), Hilda: A Story of Calcutta (1898), The Crow s Nest (1901), The Pool in the Desert (1903), Set in Authority (1906) and Cousin Cinderella: A Canadian Girl in London (1908).
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A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West
Frank Norris 试读
A notable work by Benjamin Franklin Norris who was an American novelist, during the Progressive Era, writing predominantly in the naturalist genre. Although he did not support socialism as a political system, his work nevertheless has evinced a socialist mentality and influenced socialist progressive writers such as Upton Sinclair. Like many of his contemporaries, he was profoundly influenced by the advent of Darwinism, and Thomas Henry Huxley's philosophical defense of it. Through many of his novels, notably McTeague (1899), runs a preoccupation with the notion of the civilized man overcoming the inner "brute," his animalistic tendencies. His peculiar, and often confused, brand of Social Darwinism also bears the influence of the early criminologist Cesare Lombroso.
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A Dream of John Ball; and, a kings lesson
William Morris 试读
"The good Kentish mead ran through my veins and deepened mydream of things past, present, and to come . . ." John Ballencounters strangeness after strangeness, waking from hismodern-day slumber . . . to find himself beside a quiet countryroad, garbed in an old-fashioned cloak, watching a horseback knightin armor passing by. He walks into a village where the buildingsare all hand-fashioned -- with stone-dust from the building of thechurch still fresh upon the sward. He has been transportedcenturies into the past The struggle against tyranny, and thegoodness of life in the wildwood and the heath -- these are amongthe themes threaded into this embroidered tapestry of a romance,from the pen of England's master artist and poet, William Morris.Also included in this volume is William Morris's classic, "A King'sLesson."
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A Face Illumined
Edward Payson Roe 试读
A Face Illumined centers on a young artist who sees a lovely young woman at a concert. He is struck by her beauty in one instant, but is disturbed by her character revealed in the next. The artist seeks to acquaint himself with the girl, in the hope that he can somehow create in her character the beauty that he first saw in her face. He follows her family to their Summer hotel (this sounds like stalking, but it isn't) and then the battle ensues. This is a brilliant work that explores many themes delving into human character. There is a brilliant and poignant segment arguing against suicide. Roe was a minister, and his moving plea for receiving the Saviour is the highlight of the book. What a master!
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A First Family of Tasajara
Bret Harte 试读
Bret Harte is best known for his stories about pioneering life in California. Harte moved to California in 1853 where he worked as a miner, journalist, teacher and messenger. The story begins, "It blows," said Joe Wingate. As if to accent the words of the speaker a heavy gust of wind at that moment shook the long light wooden structure which served as the general store of Sidon settlement, in Contra Costa. Even after it had passed a prolonged whistle came through the keyhole, sides, and openings of the closed glass front doors, that served equally for windows, and filled the canvas ceiling which hid the roof above like a bellying sail. A wave of enthusiastic emotion seemed to be communicated to a line of straw hats and sou-westers suspended from a cross-beam, and swung them with every appearance of festive rejoicing, while a few dusters, overcoats, and "hickory" shirts hanging on the side walls exhibited such marked hough idiotic animation that it had the effect of a satirical comment on the lazy, purposeless figures of the four living inmates of the store."
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A Fool and His Money
George Barr McCutcheon 试读
Fabulous romantic comedy adventure featuring a castle, hidden treasure, and we can't forget the villain - the count. This was made into a silent film in the 20's. I say it would make a nice remake today. Reads like a modern book - very entertaining and witty.
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A Gentleman from Mississippi
Harrison Rhodes 试读
In buoyant spirit the Hon. Charles *rton rode up the bridle path leading through the Langdon plantation to the old antebellum homestead which, on a shaded k*ll, overlooked the winding waters of the Pearl River. * finer prospect was to be had in all Mississippi than greeted the eye from the wide southwest porch, where on warm evenings the Langdons and their frequent guests gathered to dine or to watch the golden splendor of the dying sun.
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A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others
Francis Hopkinson Smith 试读
Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915) was an American author, artist and engineer. He was a descendant of Francis Hopkinson, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Smith became a contractor in New York City and did much work for the federal government including the foundation for the Bartholdi Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. His vacations were spent sketchin...
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A Girl in Ten Thousand
L. T. Meade 试读
L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854-1914), a prolific writer of girls stories in late 19th century England. She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime. Her most famous book was, A World of Girls, published in 1886. She was also the editor of a popular girl's magazine Atlanta. She also co-authored a number of notable mystery novels. With Robert Eustace, she wrote The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings, which featured a gang headed by a female criminal mastermind, Madame Koluchy. She wrote also, with Eustace, The Sorceress of the Strand that had another female criminal, Madame Sara, and with Clifford Halifax, M.D., she wrote Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. Amongst her other works are How it All Came Round (1883), The Palace Beautiful (1887), Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl (1889), A Girl of the People (1905), The Girl and Her Fortune (1906), Turquoise and Ruby (1906), The Little School-Mothers (1907), Three Girls from School (1907), and The Court-Harman Girls (1908).
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A Hoosier Chronicle
Meredith Nicholson 试读
Meredith Nicholson (1866-1947) was a best-selling Indiana author, and later a politician. Three of his books were yearly national best sellers: "The House of a Thousand Candles," "The Port of Missing Men," and "A Hoosier Chronicle."
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To the Last Man
Zane Grey 试读
"To the Last Man" is the story of Arizona's Pleasant Valley War, one of the most legendary conflicts of the Old West. A venomous feud between cattle ranchers, the Isbels, and sheepherders, the Jorths, plunges both families into a deadly cycle of vengeance. Yet, even as their families spiral into annihilation, Ellen Jorth and Jean Isabel struggle to keep their fateful romance alive.
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A Field Book of the Stars
William Tyler Olcott 试读
1907. With Fifty Diagrams. From the Introduction: Considering the ease with which a knowledge of the constellations can be acquired, it seems a remarkable fact that so few are conversant with these time-honored configurations of the heavens. Aside from a knowledge of the Dipper and the Pleiades, the constellations to the vast majority, are utterly unknown. To facilitate and pop...
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Hopes and Fears for Art
William Morris 试读
Five lectures delivered between1877 and 1880.This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguably best known as a textile designer, he founded a design partnership which deeply influenced the decoration of churches and homes during the early 20th century. However, he is also considered an important Romantic writer and pioneer of the modern fantasy genre, being a direct influence on authors such as J. R. R. Tolkien. As well as fiction, Morris penned poetry and essays.
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Oh, You Tex!
William MacLeod Raine 试读
It definately was a fun read for anyone who enjoys stories of the old west and grew up in the era when we read Zane Grey and later Louis LAmour. Tes is an oldfashioned hero, the kind who is self effacing and competent without bragging. There are some laughs in here, and a sweet romance that kinda keeps you guessing for quite a while! Settle in and enjoy "O, You Tex!"
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Secrets of the Woods
William Joseph Long 试读
Secrets of the Woods is an important collection of writings and poetry, by William Long, which deal with nature and the woods. It is an interesting read as it works to intrepret the thoughts regarding interaction with nature and woods in particular. This classic collection of writings by William Long should not be passed up by fans of his work and will also delight those who have not yet had the opportunity to experience his popular nature-oriented wrtings.
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Hurricane Hurry
William Henry Giles Kingston 试读
William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880), was a writer of tales for boys. He was born in London, but spent much of his youth in Oporto. His first book, The Circassian Chief, appeared in 1844. His first book for boys, Peter the Whaler, was published in 1851, and had such success that he retired from business and devoted himself entirely to the production of this kind of literature, in which his popularity was deservedly great; and during 30 years he wrote upwards of 130 tales, including Digby Heathcote (1860), The Three Midshipmen (1862), The Three Lieutenants (1874), The Three Commanders (1875) and In the Rocky Mountains (1878). He also conducted various papers, including The Colonist, and Colonial Magazine and East India Review. He was also interested in emigration, volunteering, and various philanthropic schemes. For services in negotiating a commercial treaty with Portugal he received a Portuguese knighthood, and for his literary labours a Government pension.
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In the Rocky Mountains
William Henry Giles Kingston 试读
We were most of us seated round a blazing fire of pine logs, which crackled away merrily, sending the sparks about in all directions, at the no small risk of setting fire to garments of a lighter texture than ours. Although the flowers were blooming on the hill-sides, in the woods and valleys, and by the margins of the streams humming-birds were flitting about gathering their dainty food and the bears, having finished the operation of licking their paws, had come out in search of more substantial fare and the buffalo had been seen migrating to the north, -the wind at night blew keenly from off the snow-capped mountain-tops which, at no great distance, rose above us, and rendered a fire acceptable even to us hardy backwoodsmen.
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True Blue
William Henry Giles Kingston 试读
The old Terrible, 74, was ploughing her way across the waters of the Atlantic, now rolling and leaping, dark and angry, with white-crested seas which dashed against her bows and flew in masses of foam over her decks. She was under her three topsails, closely reefed but even thus her tall masts bent, and twisted, and writhed, as if striving to leap out of her, while every timber and bulkhead fore and aft creaked and groaned, and the blocks rattled, and the wind roared and whistled through the rigging in chorus and the wild waves rolled and tumbled the big ship about, making her their sport, as if she was a mere cock-boat. Stronger and stronger blew the gale darkness came on and covered the world of waters, and through that darkness the ship had to force her way amid the foaming, hissing seas. Darker and darker it grew, till the lookout men declared that they might as well have shut their eyes, for they could scarcely make out their own hands when held at arm's length before their noses. Suddenly, however, the darkness was dispelled by the vivid flashes of lightning, which, darting from the low hanging clouds, circled about their heads, throwing a lurid glare on the countenances of all on deck. Once more all was dark then again the forked lightning burst forth hissing and crackling through the air, leaping along the waves and playing round the quivering masts. Now the big ship plunged into the trough of the sea with a force which made it seem as if she was never going to rise again but up the next watery height she climbed, and when she got to the top, she stopped as if to look about her, while the lightning flashed brighter than ever and then, rolling and pitching, and cutting numerous other antics, she lifted up her stern as if she was going to give a vicious fling out with her heels, and downwards she plunged into the dark obscurity, amid the high foam-topped seas, which hissed and roared high above her bulwarks. Her crew walked her deck with but little anxiety, al
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Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason
William Harrison Ainsworth 试读
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English historical novelist. His notable works include "The Lancashire Witches," Rookwood," and "The Star Chamber."
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More Pages from a Journal
William Hale White 试读
William Hale White (1831-1913) known by his pseudonym Mark Rutherford was a British writer and civil servant. White was born in Bedford educated at Bedford Modern School. He had already served an apprenticeship to journalism before he made his name as a novelist by the three books edited by Reuben Shapcott, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881), Mark Rutherford's Delivera...
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Between the Dark and the Daylight
William Dean Howells 试读
Matthew Lanfear had stopped off, between Genoa and Nice, at San Remo in the interest of a friend who had come over on the steamer with him, and who wished him to test the air before settling there for the winter with an invalid wife. She was one of those neurasthenics who really carry their climate-always a bad one-with them, but she had set her mind on San Remo and Lanfear was willing to pass a few days in the place making the observations which he felt pretty sure would be adverse.
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Questionable Shapes
William Dean Howells 试读
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American entrepreneur in the paint business. His social views were also strongly reflected in the novels Annie Kilburn (1888) and A Hazard of New Fortunes (1890). While known primarily as a novelist, his short story "Editha" (1905) - included in the collection Between the Dark and the Daylight (1907) - appears in many anthologies of American literature. Howells also wrote plays, criticism, and essays about contemporary literary figures such as Ibsen, Zola, Verga, and, especially, Tolstoy, which helped establish their reputations in the United States. He also wrote critically in support of many American writers. It is perhaps in this role that he had his greatest influence.