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Rainbow Valley
Lucy Maud Montgomery 试读
Shirley is in bed and Jem and Walter and the twins are down in their beloved Rainbow Valley, said Anne. "They just came home this afternoon, you know, and they could hardly wait until supper was over before rushing down to the valley. They love it above every spot on earth. Even the maple grove doesn't rival it in their affections."
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Queen Hortense A Life Picture of the Napoleonic Era
L. (Luise) MühlbachMrs. Chapman Coleman 试读
Louise Muhlbach was the pen name of Clara Mundt (1814-1873), an Austrian writer best known for her works of historical fiction. Among her famous works are: Napoleon and Blucher (1845), Joseph II. and His Court (1858), Henry VIII and His Court (1865), The Empress Josephine (1867), Frederick the Great and His Family (1867), Berlin and Sans- Souci or Frederick the Great and His Friends (1867), The Merchant of Berlin (1867), Old Fritz and the New Era (1867), Marie Antoinette and Her Son (1867), Andreas Hofer (1868), Prince Eugene and His Times (1869), The Daughter of an Empress (1869), and A Conspiracy of the Carbonari (1896).
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National Epics
Kate Milner RabbHarrison Fisher 试读
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Familiar Letters on Chemistry
Justus Liebig 试读
Until very recently it was supposed that the physical qualities of bodies, i.e. hardness, colour, density, transparency, and still more their chemical properties, must depend upon the nature of their elements, or upon their composition. It was tacitly received as a principle, that two bodies containing the same elements in the same proportion, must of necessity possess the same properties. We could not imagine an exact identity of composition giving rise to two bodies entirely different in their sensible appearance and chemical relations.
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A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery
Juliet Corson 试读
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Jackanapes, Daddy Darwins Dovecot and Other Stories
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 试读
Illustrated children's book first published in 1879 by the prolific author of children's stories. Her tales, which have hardly been excelled in sympathetic insight into childlife, still enjoy undiminished popularity.
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Madam Crowls Ghost and the Dead Sexton
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 试读
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Raggedy Ann Stories
Johnny Gruelle 试读
Since Raggedy Ann first appeared in print in 1918, she has charmed millions of readers with her always warm and optimistic outlook and calm approach to difficulties. Now she returns to delight a new generation in this carefully produced reissue, which restores the book to its original appearance. All the original stories are here, as Raggedy Ann comes to Marcella's nursery and quickly becomes the leader of the dolls. After learning a lesson from a naughty raid on the pantry, Raggedy Ann's adventures show her striving to be good -- and succeeding. She and the other dolls rescue Fido, the family dog, from the dogcatcher. When, in one adventure, Raggedy Ann has to have her stuffing replaced, she gets her famous "I LOVE YOU" candy heart. Raggedy Ann also goes up in a kite, teaches two new dolls to be tolerant, and shares the excitement of a baby brother for Marcella, among several other tales.
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Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky
John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott 试读
Daniel Boone was gentle, kindly, modest, peace-loving, absolutely fearless, strong as a bear and active as a panther his life was lived in danger, almost perpetual hardship and exposure yet he died in his bed at almost 90 years of age. This outstanding American's story is one that will inspire any young person today.
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Val dArno
John Ruskin 试读
Returning to our door at Pisa, we shall find these general questions as to the distribution of ornament much confused with others as to its time and style. We are at once, for instance, brought to a pause as to the degree in which the ornamentation was once carried out in the doors themselves. Their surfaces were, however, I doubt not, once recipients of the most elaborate...
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Paradise Regained
John Milton 试读
Following the fall of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden in Milton's "Paradise Lost," Milton turns his attention to the temptation of Jesus in the wilderness by Satan in "Paradise Regained." In this work, a sequel to "Paradise Lost," Satan tests Jesus in a similar way to Eve in the Garden of Eden. However, Jesus is not seduced by the promises of Satan and passes his test. "Paradise Regained" is a poetic and intriguing tale that follows along in the spirit of Milton's masterpiece "Paradise Lost."
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Saints Progress
John Galsworthy 试读
John Galsworthy OM ( 14 August 1867 - 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932. -wikipedia
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Jack Haydons Quest
John FinnemoreJohn Jellicoe 试读
Jack was on fire to be off to Brindisi and see what was wrong.He made short work of his packing, and within an hour he wasdriving to Longhampton to catch the London express. He caught itwith scarcely two minutes to spare, and was soon whirling towardsthe great city. A short distance from Longhampton, he caught aglimpse of Rushmere School in the distance on its hill, and thestrip of heath country running up to the foot of the slope. Thisbrought to mind his adventure, which remained as mysterious anaffair as ever. The police had been most active, stations had beenwatched, inquiries had been made in every direction, but all to noresult. The Thugs had vanished and left no trace behind. But thethought of his encounter on the heath soon faded from Jack's mind.It was crushed out by the pressing question of the moment. What wasthe matter at Brindisi? Why had Risley cabled and not his father?Had something happened to his father? Jack felt wretchedly uneasy,for he and his father were bound together by no ordinary ties ofaffection.In the first place, he had, as far as he knew, no other livingrelation. His mother had been dead for many years, and his fatherwas the only close friend that Jack knew. Then the elder Haydon hadalways been a great hero in his son's eyes. His profession ofmining engineer had carried him into many wild corners of theworld, and the store of marvellous tales which he would pour forthfor the boy's delight had made Jack's holidays a time of intensepleasure. Mr. Haydon had always made a point, if it was possible,of keeping himself free for such times, and he and Jack had spentthe weeks joyously, until the day for return to school had become aBlack Monday indeed in the boy's eyes.
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Palamon and Arcite
John Dryden 试读
While Arcite lives in bliss, the story turns Where hopeless Palamon in prison mourns. For six long years immured, the captive knight Had dragged his chains, and scarcely seen the light: Lost liberty and love at once he bore.
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Idle Ideas in 1905
Jerome K. Jerome 试读
Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927) was an English author, best known for the humourous travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). In 1877, he decided to try his hand at acting, under the stage name Harold Crichton. He joined a repertory troupe who tried to produce plays on a shoestring budget, often drawing on the meager resources of the actors themselves to purchase costumes and props. He tried to become a journalist, writing essays, satires and short stories, but most of these were rejected. Over the next few years he was a school teacher, a packer, and a solicitor's clerk. Finally, in 1885, he had some success with On the Stage-and Off, a humourous book, the publication of which opened the door for more plays and essays.
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T. Haviland Hicks Senior
J. Raymond Elderdice 试读
Big Butch Brewster captain and full-back of the Bannister College football squad his behemoth bulk swathed in heavy blankets and crowded into a narrow bunk shifted his vast tonnage restlessly.
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Echoes of the War
James Matthew Barrie 试读
Three nice old ladies and a criminal, who is even nicer, are discussing the war over a cup of tea. The criminal, who is the hostess, calls it a dish of tea, which shows that she comes from Caledonia but that is not her crime. They are all London charwomen, but three of them, including the hostess, are what are called professionally 'charwomen and' or simply 'ands.' An 'and' is also a caretaker when required her name is entered as such in ink in a registry book, financial transactions take place across a counter between her and the registrar, and altogether she is of a very different social status from one who, like Mrs. Haggerty, is a charwoman but nothing else. Mrs. Haggerty, though present, is not at the party by invitation having seen Mrs. Dowey buying the winkles, she followed her downstairs, so has shuffled into the play and sat down in it against our wish. We would remove her by force, or at least print her name in small letters, were it not that she takes offence very readily and says that nobody respects her. So, as you have slipped in, you sit there, Mrs. Haggerty but keep quiet.
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Quality Street A Comedy
James Matthew Barrie 试读
A comedy play. The scene is the blue and white room in the house of Misses Susan and Phoebe Throssel in Quality Street and in this little country town there is a satisfaction about living in Quality Street which even religion cannot give. Through the bowed window at the back we have a glimpse of the street. It is pleasantly broad and grass-grown, and is linked to the outer world by one demure shop, whose door rings a bell every time it opens and shuts. Thus by merely peeping, every one in Quality Street can know at once who has been buying a Whimsy cake, and usually why. This bell is the most familiar sound of Quality Street. Now and again ladies pass in their pattens, a maid perhaps protecting them with an umbrella, for flakes of snow are falling discreetly. Gentlemen in the street are an event but, see, just as we raise the curtain, there goes the recruiting sergeant to remind us that we are in the period of the Napoleonic wars. If he were to look in at the window of the blue and white room all the ladies there assembled would draw themselves up they know him for a rude fellow who smiles at the approach of maiden ladies and continues to smile after they have passed. However, he lowers his head to-day so that they shall not see him, his present design being converse with the Misses Throssel's maid . . .
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Young Barbarians
Ian Maclaren 试读
Muirtown Seminary was an imposing building[1] of the classical order, facing the north meadow and commanding from its upper windows a fine view of the river Tay running rapidly and cleanly upon its gravel bed. Behind the front building was the paved court where the boys played casual games in the breaks of five minutes between the hours of study, and this court had an entrance from a narrow back street along which, in snow time, a detachment of the enemy from the other schools might steal any hour and take us by disastrous surprise.
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Umboo, the Elephant
Howard Roger Garis 试读
"Oh, my But it's hot It is just too hot for anything " cried Chako, one of the monkeys in the circus cage. "It is hotter under this tent than ever it was in the jungle Whew " and he hung by his tail and swung to and fro from a wooden bar. "In the jungle we could find a pool of water where we could keep cool," said another monkey, who was poking around the floor of the cage, hoping he could find a peanut. But there were only shells. "I wish I could go back to the jungle," he chattered. "What did you come away from the jungle for, if you don't like it in this circus " asked Woo-Uff, the big yellow lion, who lay on his back in his cage, his legs stuck up in the air, for he was cooler that way. "Why did you come from the jungle, Chako "
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Facing the World
Horatio Alger 试读
Here's a letter for you, Harry, said George Howard. "I was passing the hotel on my way home from school when Abner Potts called out to me from the piazza, and asked me to bring it." The speaker was a bright, round-faced boy of ten. The boy whom he addressed was five or six years older. Only a week previous he had lost his father, and as the family consisted only of these two, he was left, so far as near relatives were concerned, alone in the world.
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Jacks Ward
Horatio Alger 试读
The Horatio Alger myth has worked itself deeply into American culture. Even those who have never read one of his stories and many who could not identify him have come to believe that honest, industrious adolescents can easily rise from poverty to respectability. That conviction has reinforced notions of capitalism and the Protestant work ethic. It has also strengthened a sense ...
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Pamela Giraud
Honoré de Balzac 试读
A Play in Five Acts set during the Napoleonic plots under Louis XVIII. (1815-1824). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories, novels and essays) and 48 unfinished works. His stories are an attempt to comprehend and depict the realities of life in contemporary bourgeois France. They are placed in a variety of settings, with characters reappearing in multiple stories.
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Unconscious Comedians
Honoré de Balzac 试读
One morning as he ate his breakfast and cursed his fate, he picked up a newspaper savagely. The following lines, ending an article, struck Gazonal as if the mysterious voice which speaks to gamblers before they win had sounded in his ear: "Our celebrated landscape painter, Leon de Lora, lately returned from Italy, will exhibit several pictures at the Salon; thus the exhibition promises, as we see, to be most brilliant."
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Dame Care
Hermann Sudermann 试读
1891. Sudermann, one of the leading writers of the German naturalist movement, achieved popularity through his psychological novel Dame Care. The book begins: Just when Meyerhofer's estate was to be sold by auction, his third son Paul was born. That was a hard time indeed. Frau Elsbeth, with her haggard face and melancholy smile, lay in her big four-post bed, with the cradle of the newborn child near her, and listened to every noise that reached her in her sad sickroom from the yard and house. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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I and My Chimney
Herman Melville 试读
I and my chimney, two grey-headed old smokers, reside in the country. We are, I may say, old settlers here; particularly my old chimney, which settles more and more every day.
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East Lynne
Henry Wood 试读
In an easy-chair of the spacious and handsome library of his town-house, sat William, Earl of Mount Severn. His hair was gray, the smoothness of his expansive brow was defaced by premature wrinkles, and his once attractive face bore the pale, unmistakable look of dissipation.
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Fair Margaret
Henry Rider Haggard 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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Nada the Lily
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
For I will call you by the name that for fifty years has been honoured by every tribe between Zambesi and Cape Agulbas,--I greet you!Sompseu, my father, I have written a book that tells of men and matters of which you know the most of any who still look upon the light; therefore, I set your name within that book and, such as it is, I offer it to you.
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Queen Shebas Ring
Henry Rider Haggard 试读
The discovery of a ring, given to the Queen of Sheba by King Solomon himself, launches this tale of romance and adventure from master storyteller H. Rider Haggard, the author of King Solomon's Mines. Action is surprisingly brisk, characters are generally likeable, and the ending is not surprising but still satisfying.
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Quaint Courtships
Henry Mills Alden 试读
Originally published in 1906, this book is one of the Harper's Novelettes series of short stories and prose.
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Handbook of the Trees of New England
Henry M. (Henry Mason) BrooksLorin Low Dame 试读
"There is no lack of good manuals of botany in this country. There still seems place for an adequately illustrated book of convenient size for field use. The larger manuals, moreover, cover extensive regions and sometimes fail by reason of their universality to give a definite idea of plants as they grow within more limited areas. New England marks a meeting place of the Canadian and Alleghanian floras. Many southern plants, long after they have abandoned more elevated situations northward, continue to advance up the valleys of the Connecticut and Merrimac rivers, in which they ultimately disappear entirely or else reappear in the valley of the St. Lawrence while many northern plants pushing southward maintain a more or less precarious existence upon the mountain summits or in the cold swamps of New England, and sometimes follow along the mountain ridges to the middle or southern states."
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Madame De Mauves
Henry James 试读
"Introduce me to Madame de Mauves," he answered, "and Saint-Germain will quite satisfy me." All he had learned was the lady's name and residence. Longmore's further enquiries were arrested by the arrival of a young lady with a bandbox but he went away with the promise of a note of introduction, to be immediately dispatched to him at Saint-Germain. He then waited a week, but the note never came. . . .
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Pandora
Henry James 试读
Work by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.
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Vane of the Timberlands
Harold Bindloss 试读
A light breeze scented with the smell of the firs was blowing down the inlet and the tiny ripples it chased across the water splashed musically against the bows of the canoe. They met her end-on sparkling in the warm sunset light gurgled about her sides and trailed away astern in two divergent lines as the paddles flashed and fell.
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Damn! A Book of Calumny
Henry Louis Mencken 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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Balcony Stories
Grace E. King1st World Library1stworld Library 试读
Collection of stories by the American author of Louisiana stories, history, and biography, who was a leader in historical and literary activities.
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Vain Fortune
George Moore 试读
Hubert Price, a struggling young playwright with one moderate success under his belt, is bequeathed a legacy by his uncle. His focus on repeating his theatrical success, and his love for the beautiful Julia, blinds him to the tragic, obsessive …
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A Columbus of Space
Garrett Putman Serviss 试读
We simply listened in silence for what could we say The facts were more eloquent than any words, and called for no commentary. Here we "were," out in the middle of space and "there" was the earth, hanging on nothing, like a summer cloud. At least we knew where we were if we didn't quite understand how we had got there. . . .
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Gala-days
Gail Hamilton 试读
Once there was a great noise in our house,—a thumping and battering and grating. It was my own self dragging my big trunk down from the garret. I did it myself because I wanted it done. If I had said, "Halicarnassus, will you fetch my trunk down?" he would have asked me what trunk? and what did I want of it? and would not the other one be better? and couldn't I wait till after dinner?—and so the trunk would probably have had a three-days journey from garret to basement.
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Jack Archer
George Alfred Henty 试读
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The first day of term cannot be considered a cheerful occasion. As the boys arrive on the previous evening, they have so much to tell each other, are so full of what they have been doing, that the chatter and laughter are as great as upon the night preceding the breaking-up. In the morning, however, all this is changed. As they take their places at their desks and open their books, a dull, heavy feeling takes possession of the boys, and the full consciousness that they are at the beginning of another half year's work weighs heavily on their minds. It is true enough that the half year will have its play, too, its matches, with their rivalry and excitement. But at present it is the long routine of lessons which is most prominent in the minds of the lads who are sitting on the long benches of the King's School, Canterbury.
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Nan of Music Mountain
Frank H 试读
Frank Hamilton Spearman (1859-1937) was an American author. He was known for his books in the Western fiction genre and especially for his fiction and non-fiction works on the topic of railroads. Although he wrote prolifically about railroads, his actual career was that of a bank president in McCook, Nebraska and did not work for a railroad. Spearman was also a devout Roman Catholic convert and held political views best described as protolibertarian, both of which beliefs are also reflected in his novels. His Western novel Whispering Smith (1906) was made into a movie on three separate occasions, in 1915, 1927 and 1947. His works include: The Nerve of Foley and Other Railroad Stories (1900), Held for Others: Being Stories of Railroad Life (1901), Doctor Bryson (1902), The Daughter of a Magnate (1903), The Strategy of Great Railroads (1904), The Close of the Day (1904), Robert Kimberly (1911), The Mountain Divide (1912), Merrilie Dawes (1913), Nan of Music Mountain (1916), Laramie Holds the Range (1921), The Marriage Verdict (1923), Selwood of Sleepy Cat (1925), Flambeau Jim (1927), Spanish Lover (1930) and Hell's Desert (1933).
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Racketty-Packetty House
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
From the writer of The Secret Garden and A Little Princess comes the story of how Queen Crosspatch and her band of fairies help to save the Racketty-Packetty House. With classic illustrations by Harrison Cady, "Racketty-Packetty House" is Frances Hodgson Burnett's whimsical tale of wonder with a positive message that will enchant and delight young readers.
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T. Tembarom
Frances Hodgson Burnett 试读
Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was an English- American playwright and author. She was best known for her children's stories, in particular The Secret Garden (1911) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1886). Her first story was published in Godey's Lady's Book in 1868. Her main writing talent was combining realistic detail of workingclass life with a romantic plot. Her first novel was published in 1877 That Lass o' Lowrie's was a story of Lancashire life. After moving to Washington, D.C., Burnett wrote the novels Haworth's (1879), Louisiana (1880), A Fair Barbarian (1881), and Through One Administration (1883), as well as a play, Esmeralda (1881), written with William Gillette. Her later works include Sara Crewe, or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's (1888) - later rewritten as A Little Princess (1905) and A Lady of Quality (1896) - considered one of the best of her plays. The Lost Prince was published in 1915, and The Head of the House of Coombe was published in Canada in 1922. During World War I, Burnett put her beliefs about what happens after death into writing with her novella The White People (1917).
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Observations By Mr. Dooley
Finley Peter Dunne 试读
Large format paper back for easy reading. Satirical observations of a fictional, honest, Irish-American street philosopher……
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Gaslight Sonatas
Fannie Hurst 试读
In the early 1920s, Fannie Hurst's enormous popularity made her the highest-paid writer in America. She conquered the literary scene at the same time the silent movie industry began to emerge as a tremendously profitable and popular form of entertainment. Abe C. Ravitz parallels Hurst's growing acclaim with the evolution of silent films, from which she borrowed ideas and techniques that furthered her career. Ravitz notes that Hurst was amazingly adept at anticipating what the public wanted. Sensing that the national interest was shifting from rural to urban subjects, Hurst set her immigrant tales and her "woiking goil" tales in urban America. In her early stories, she tried to bridge the gap between Old World and New World citizens, each somewhat fearful and suspicious of the other. She wrote of love and ethnicity--bringing the Jewish Mother to prominence--of race relations and prejudice, of the woman alone in her quest for selfhood. Ravitz argues, in fact, that her socially oriented tales and her portraits of women in the city clearly identify her as a forerunner of contemporary feminism.
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A Comedy of Masks A Nove
Ernest Christopher Dowson 试读
Me in the old days with his confounded cavalry bluster I rather think I will look him up: and I'll dine with him three times a week if he likes. Meanwhile, it's time for me to go and meet old Rainham, and take him round to Brodo- nowski's. What a ripping sunset " And he strolled light-heartedly through Grosvenor Square, the smoke of his cigarette fading away behind him. CHAPTER IV. When Rainham pushed back the door of the dim little restaurant in Turk Street, Soho, he stood a moment, blinking his eyes a little in the sudden change from the bright summer sunshine, before he assured himself that his friend had not yet arrived. Half a dozen men were sitting about smoking or discussing various drinks.
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J. Cole
Emma Gellibrand 试读
As I turned the handle of the heavy iron gate, I looked down at the front kitchen window. A man stood in the kitchen, and he looked up and saw me--such a horrible-looking ruffian, too. Fear lent wings to my feet, and I flew up the road. The watchman was just entering the park from the opposite end he saw me, and sounded his whistle the policeman turned and ran towards me. I was too exhausted to speak, and he caught me, just as, having gasped Thieves at 50 (the number of our house), I fell forward in a dead swoon.
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La debacle
Emile Zola 试读
La Débâcle est un roman d’Émile Zola publié en 1892, le dix-neuvième volume de la série les Rougon-Macquart, dont il constitue la conclusion historique. Pendant la guerre de 1870, deux soldats se lient d'amitié ; Jean Macquart, incarnation des solides valeurs rurales, et Maurice Levasseur, intellectuel qui rêve d'un cataclysme où s'anéantirait le monde corrompu - et le lecteur va les suivre jusqu'à ce que la Commune les sépare et dramatiquement les voie s'affronter. Mais si Zola choisit, bien au-delà de leur opposition symbolique, de les mêler à d'innombrables autres figures, c'est qu'il veut écrire le roman des masses et nous montrer une nation tout entière meurtrie par l'Histoire. Il juxtapose donc des scènes de combat et de vie civile, montre sans fard toutes les souffrances des corps, et jour après jour déroule sous nos yeux la douloureuse chronique qui va conduire à l'humiliation de Sedan. La Débâcle que Zola fait paraître en 1892, avant de clore Les Rougon-Macquart par un ultime roman, est le seul de ses livres dont le sujet soit un événement historique, le seul aussi qui soit consacré à la guerre. En abordant la crise la plus grave de l'histoire récente de la France, il adopte pour la dernière fois une vision tragique, mais nous donne à comprendre que sans doute la défaite fut un mal nécessaire. Après quoi Le Docteur Pascal pourra interpréter la totalité de la fresque romanesque comme une célébration de la vie.
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Nancy Stair A Novel
Elinor Macartney Lane 试读
Nancy Stair is a Biographical book. Nancy as a poet; the heart of the matter with him being to commend her English verses, as well as those in " gude braid Scot". With these accounts to be secured so easily it may seem presumptuous, as well as superfluous, for me to undertake a third. I state at the outset, therefore, that it is beyond my ambition and my abilities to add a word to stories told so well. Nor do I purpose to mention either the work on the bum or Nancy's song-making, save when necessary for clearness. For me, however, the life of Nancy Stair has a far deeper significance than that set forth by either of these gifted authors. My knowledge of her was naturally of the most intimate; I watched her grow from a wonderful child into a wonderful woman; and saw her, with a man's education, none but men for friends, and no counselings save from her own heart, solve most wisely for the race the problem put to every woman of gift; and with sweetest reasoning and no bitter renouncings enter the kingdom of great womanhood.
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Halcyone
Elinor Glyn 试读
This early work by Elinor Glyn was originally published in 1911 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Halcyone' is a novel about a young heroine and her romantic life. She was the youngest daughter of a civil engineer, Douglas Southerland, and his wife Elinor Saunders. Elinor Glyn began her writing career in 1900 and was a pioneer of the risque and romantic fiction genre. She went on to write many popular books such as 'Beyond the Rocks' (1906), 'Love's Blindness' (1926), and 'It' (1927), in which she coined the term 'It', meaning the animal magnetism that some individuals possess.
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Painted Windows
Elia Wilkinson Peattie 试读
"Painted Windows" is a series of remembrances (some most certainly autobiographical in nature) from the point of view of a young girl growing up, covering all aspects of her life, from family and love, to friendship and travel and remorse. Its author, Elia Wilkinson Peattie, was born and raised in poverty in southwestern Michigan and went on to become one of the first female reporters for the "Chicago Tribune." From her introduction to this work: "Will you come with me into the chamber of memory and lift your eyes to the painted windows where the figures and scenes of childhood appear Perhaps by looking with kindly eyes at those from out my past, long wished-for visions of your own youth will appear to heal the wounds from which you suffer, and to quiet your stormy and restless heart."
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Taken Alive
Edward Payson Roe 试读
Two or three years ago the editor of "Lippincott's Magazine" asked me, with many others, to take part in the very interesting "experience meeting" begun in the pages of that enterprising periodical. I gave my consent without much thought of the effort involved, but as time passed, felt slight inclination to comply with the request. There seemed little to say of interest to the general public, and I was distinctly conscious of a certain sense of awkwardness in writing about myself at all. The question, Why should I always confronted me. When this request was again repeated early in the current year, I resolved at least to keep my promise. This is done with less reluctance now, for the reason that floating through the press I meet with paragraphs concerning myself that are incorrect, and often absurdly untrue. These literary and personal notes, together with many questioning letters, indicate a certain amount of public interest, and I have concluded that it may be well to give the facts to those who care to know them.
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Half Portions
Edna Ferber 试读
Edna Ferber was an early 20th century American author and playwright. Ferber worked for several newspapers. She covered the 1920 Republican and Democratic national conventions for the United Press Association. Her novels often featured a strong female protagonist and often had a secondary character who faced some form of discrimination. In 1925 her novel So Big won a Pulitzer Prize. Stories in this collection include The maternal feminine, April 25th, as usual, Old lady Mandle, You've got to be selfish, Long distance, Un Morso Doo Pang, One hundred per cent, Farmer in the Del, and The dancing girls.