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Makers of Many Things
Eva March Tappan 试读
I remember being once upon a time ten miles from a store and one mile from a neighbor; the fire had gone out in the night, and the last match failed to blaze. We had no flint and steel. We were neither Indians nor Boy Scouts, and we did not know how to make a fire by twirling a stick. There was nothing to do but to trudge off through the snow to the neighbor a mile away and beg some matches. Then was the time when we appreciated the little match and thought with profound respect of the men who invented and perfected it. It is a long way from the safe and reliable match of to-day back to the splinters that were soaked in chemicals and sold together with little bottles of sulphuric acid. The splinter was expected to blaze when dipped into the acid. Sometimes it did blaze, and sometimes it did not; but it was reasonably certain how the acid would behave, for it would always sputter and do its best to spoil some one's clothes. Nevertheless, even such matches as these were regarded as a wonderful convenience, and were sold at five dollars a hundred.
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A Little Book of Profitable Tales
Eugene Field 试读
The Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many of which were written during a period of remarkable creativity.
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Songs and Other Verse
Eugene Field 试读
This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. Together, the more than one hundred UC Libraries comprise the largest university research library in the world, with over thirty-five million volumes in their holdings. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found online in the HathiTrust Digital Library.HP's patented BookPrep technology was used to clean artifacts resulting from use and digitization, improving your reading experience.
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Out of the Ashes
Ethel Watts Mumford 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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The Knave of Diamonds
Ethel May Dell 试读
There came a sudden blare of music from the great ballroom below, and the woman who stood alone at an open window on the first floor shrugged her shoulders and shivered a little. The night air blew in brisk and cold upon her uncovered neck, but except for that slight, involuntary shiver she scarcely seemed aware of it. The room behind her was brilliantly lighted but empty. Some tables had been set for cards, but the cards were untouched. Either the attractions of the ballroom had remained omnipotent, or no one had penetrated to this refuge of the bored - no one save this tall and stately woman robed in shimmering, iridescent green, who stood with her face to the night, breathing the chill air as one who had been on the verge of suffocation. It was evidently she who had flung up the window. Her gloved hands leaned upon the woodwork on each side of it. There was a certain constraint in her whole attitude, a tension that was subtly evident in every graceful line. Her head was slightly bent as though she intently watched or listened for something.
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Rosa Mundi and Other Stories
Ethel May Dell 试读
Conflict is brewing in India, violence seems just over the horizon -- and the rebellion may be more than the tight-lipped Secret Service man can handle. Yet a mysterious renegade native, named Carlyon, materializes out of seeming nowhere . . . and through his help the day may yet be saved.What unspoken mysteries motivate these two men . . . and will the deep ember of passion the Secret Service man holds within himself for the girl Averil ever be allowed into light of day?Romance combines with foreign adventure in "The Secret Service Man," a novelette to be found in this collection by English novelist Ethyl M. Dell.
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Rolf in the Woods
Ernest Thompson Seton 试读
This is the story of the last Wabanaki Indian in the forests of New England. A beautiful book as exciting as Robinson Crusoe, as epic, poignant and American as Lonesome Dove, steeped in the same tradition of authenticity, historical, anthropological, ecological. Seton wrote a century ago, but to the contemporary reader he is a sensitive writer that provides insight into the period he wrote about that shames our modern-day prejudices and simplifications about the thoughts and mores of people two centuries ago. Reading this book is edifying as it is humbling. It is a gem of American literature. The illustrations are exciting and evocative and add an important dimension to the story. You will never forget having read this book. It is a book to share. Why on earth Amazon.com rate it for reading age of 4-8 is incomprehensible.
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Polly of the Hospital Staff
Emma C. Dowd 试读
This book was a sweet story of a little girl who brought happiness to others. Her kindness, empathy and loyalty were a natural part of her person. A book of worth reading, uplifting & heartwarming.
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The Purchase Price
Emerson Hough 试读
With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front where at the end of the dock on which they stood lay the good ship Mount Vernon river packet the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a shoulder.
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The Sagebrusher A Story of the West
Emerson Hough 试读
Sim, said Wid Gardner, as he cast a frowning glance around him, "take it one way with another, and I expect this is a leetle the dirtiest place in the Two-Forks Valley." The man accosted did no more than turn a mild blue eye toward the speaker and resume his whittling. He smiled faintly, with a sort of apology, as the other went on. "I'll say more'n that, Sim. It's the blamedest, dirtiest hole in the whole state of Montany-yes, or in the whole wide world. Lookit " He swept a hand around, indicating the interior of the single-room log cabin in which they sat.
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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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Loveliness A Story
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 试读
It is a story about a dog.His owner has a deep feeling with the dog,but it is lost.
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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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Oh, Money! Money!
Eleanor H.Porter 试读
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars. He was a tall, spare man, with a fringe of reddish-brown hair encircling a bald spot. His blue eyes, fixed just now in a steady gaze upon a row of ponderous law books across the room, were friendly and benevolent in direct contradiction to the bulldog, never-let-go fighting qualities of the square jaw below the firm, rather thin lips. The lawyer, a youthfully alert man of sixty years, trimly gray as to garb, hair, and mustache, sat idly watching him, yet with eyes that looked so intently that they seemed to listen. For fully five minutes the two men had been pulling at their cigars in silence when the millionaire spoke. "Ned, what am I going to do with my money?" Into the lawyer's listening eyes flashed, for a moment, the keenly scrutinizing glance usually reserved for the witness on the other side. Then quietly came the answer. "Spend it yourself, I hope-for some years to come, Stanley."
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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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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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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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Outdoor Sports and Games
Claude Harris Miller 试读
If we live a natural open-air life we shall have but little need of doctors or medicine. Many of our grandmothers' notions on how to keep well have changed in recent years. Old-fashioned remedies made from roots and herbs have been almost completely replaced by better habits of life and common-sense ideas.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)"
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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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The Perils of Pauline
Charles Goddard 试读
Short excerpt: These things had been in his mind since the motor industry started. He had lived with them wrestled with them during his meals and taken them to his dreams at night. Now they formed a rhythm and he heard them in his brain just before the fainting spells...
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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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Three Ghost Stories
Charles Dickens 试读
Three Ghost Stories is a collection of three stories that are Gothic classics. Included are: The Signal Man, The Haunted House, The Trial for Murder.
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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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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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Found at Blazing Star
Bret Harte 试读
The rain had only ceased with the gray streaks of morning at Blazing Star, and the settlement awoke to a moral sense of cleanliness, and the finding of forgotten knives, tin cups, and smaller camp utensils, where the heavy showers had washed away the debris and dust heaps before the cabin doors. Indeed, it was recorded in Blazing Star that a fortunate early riser had once picked up on the highway a solid chunk of gold quartz which the rain had freed from its incumbering soil, and washed into immediate and glittering popularity. Possibly this may have been the reason why early risers in that locality, during the rainy season, adopted a thoughtful habit of body, and seldom lifted their eyes to the rifted or india-ink washed skies above them. "Cass" Beard had risen early that morning, but not with a view to discovery. A leak in his cabin roof, -quite consistent with his careless, improvident habits, -had roused him at 4 A. M., with a flooded "bunk" and wet blankets. The chips from his wood pile refused to kindle a fire to dry his bed-clothes, and he had recourse to a more provident neighbor's to supply the deficiency. This was nearly opposite. Mr. Cassius crossed the highway, and stopped suddenly. Something glittered in the nearest red pool before him. Gold, surely But, wonderful to relate, not an irregular, shapeless fragment of crude ore, fresh from Nature's crucible, but a bit of jeweler's handicraft in the form of a plain gold ring. Looking at it more attentively, he saw that it bore the inscription, "May to Cass."
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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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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.