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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If, got on board the vessel...

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...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...rs for some inexplicable reason the name of one of the principal cities of France; beneath these windows a wooden balcony extended the entire length o... ...e has been taken to Fenestrelles, to Pignerol, or to the Sainte-Marguerite islands. Some fine morning he will return to take command of your vessel.” ... ...risking his life by trying to swim a distance of three miles to one of the islands — Daume, Rattonneau, or Lemaire; should a hardy sailer, an experien... ...eared. He must now get his bearings. Ratonneau and Pomegue are the nearest islands of all those that surround the Chateau d’If, but Ratonneau and Pome... ...ted port.” Alexandre Dumas 259 “What do you mean?” “Monte Cristo although uninhabited, yet serves occasionally as a refuge for the smugglers and pira... ... “Hush!” said the captain; “it is a fire.” “But you told me the island was uninhabited?” “l said there were no fixed habitations on it, but I said als...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...now that I may be not only those I have named, but all the Twelve Peers of France and even all the Nine Worthies, since my achievements surpass all th... ...gue with the knights- errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no fa... ...govern it as much and as well as anyone in the world who has ever governed islands.” To which Don Quixote replied, “Thou must take notice, brother San... ...rother Sancho, that this adventure and those like it are not adventures of islands, but of cross-roads, in which nothing is got except a broken head o... ...nd cruelty of his lady had driven to some desperate course; but as in that uninhabited and rugged spot there was no one to be seen of whom he could in... ...eyes. We promised her to do this at the moment of departure, for as it was uninhabited we ran no risk in releasing them at that place. Our prayers wer...

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... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ... 54 The Town Ho’s Story(As told at the Golden Inn.) . . . . . . . . 237 55 Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 56 Of... ..., And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” Waller’s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or ... ...ect millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instinct through that waste And trackless region... ...d incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, wit... ...De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, and... ...stinately clung to the hemp, as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosti... ...merous populous cities and most thriving vil lages; through long, dismal, uninhabited swamps, and affluent, cultivated fields, unrivalled for fertility...

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...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...And on his back a grove of pikes appears.” —Waller’ s Battle of the Summer Islands. “By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Common- wealth o... ...ct millions peopling every wave: Gather’d in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through that waste And trackless re- g... ...d incommunicable. The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, wit... ...e Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France, at his own personal expense, fit out whaling ships from Dunkirk, an... ...stinately clung to the hemp, as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roost... ...merous populous cities and most thriving villages; through long, dis- mal, uninhabited swamps, and affluent, cultivated fields, unri- valled for ferti...

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...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

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...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

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... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...-boats; explain how the first modern humans managed to migrate to the Pacific islands and Australia 75,000 years ago. Using the bones and skins of t... ...acherous currents, and westerly storms that make this entire coast feared and uninhabited by man. If shipwrecked, there is no hope of survival beca... ...ges down the throats of his subjects. When Napoleon single-handedly revamped France’s legal system; he threatened the old status quo of all Europe. ... ...ession. All of the first attempts of colonization were situated on the outer islands of North America, not on the continent itself and all the first... ...nent of America. They timidly established footholds and toeholds on the outer islands first before they ever set foot on the American continent. Yo... ... make Thanksgiving; the coldest day of the year. And go out into the deepest uninhabited forest, where the snow is deepest… in the hopes of finding...

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...on Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...me after his liberation, to leave the ves- sel clandestinely at one of the islands, but was brought back ignominiously, and again shut up. Being set a... ... up in the lawless ports of the Spanish Main, and among the savages of the islands. Like galley-slaves, they are only to be governed by scourges and c... ...f cruelty like this are not unusual on the part of sea captains landing at islands comparatively un- known. Even at the Pomotu group, but a day’s sail... ...reat deal of cocoa-nut oil is also obtained in various places. Some of the uninhabited islands are covered with dense groves; and the ungathered nuts ... ...ed valley, and thus crosses the island in that direction. 99 Melville The uninhabited interior, being almost impenetrable from the densely-wooded gle... ...he Julia was off. The beach was quite near, and in this quarter altogether uninhabited; so down we ran, and, at cable’s length, saw little Jule glidin...

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...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ... wished to go to sleep. These were wandering musi- cians, from neighboring islands, and their songs were mostly new to us. They repeated the ones we ... ...ld, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We never remember the s... ...kept by Leonardo da Vinci during the years 1516 to 1519 while he lived in France as the guest of King Francis I; there, he lived in the small residen... ...s of the château; it often seems to me that I have been here before! With Francesco, Salai and Giovanni busy in the adjoining studio, I try to belie... ...em deter- mined to flourish. Where the Loire widens, meadows of water form islands. Yesterday or the day before, Francesco and I spent most of a morn... ...other turn, and there was Ariel; I heard the wind blow hollowly across an uninhabited island... “Safely in harbor is the king’s ship; in the deep no...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. -- Start in Life I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen, who settled first at Hull. He got a good estate by merchandise, and leaving off his trade, lived afterwards at York, from whence he...

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...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which ...

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...The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA... ...S S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...es it im possible accurately to describe. He travelled in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, in Denmark, Sweden, and Russia. He went even to In... ...m the countries along the Danube and the Rhine, and you that come from the islands of the sea. It is not for me to follow you, because mine is the lor... ...cerecloths of Le Nain; many wore the blouses and the caps of the rabble in France, and many the dingy , smoke grimed weeds of English poor. And they s... ...in need of repair; and it had the deso late look of a place that has been uninhabited. The garden that surrounded it had been allowed to run wild, an... ...through many till they came back into the hall. They had all a deso late, uninhabited air. Their sombreness was increased by the oak with which they ...

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...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there tw...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am... ...n Elizabeth, as much as if it was that of the King and Queen of the Cannibal Islands. All costume off a man is pitiful or grotesque. It is only the se... ...er the shadow of his head at morning and evening, whether he was in Italy or France, and it was particularly conspicuous when the grass was moist with... ... a mile from any road, but so much the nearer to the pond, and had long been uninhabited: — “And here a poet builded, In the completed years, 128 Wal... ...f the Ganges. With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and,... ...s find some “Symmes’ Hole” by which to get at the inside at last. England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

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...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

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...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ...ES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—SAN DIEGO . . . . ... ...y, Nov. 4th. At day break saw land upon our larboard quarter. There were two islands, of different size but of the same shape; rather high, beginnin... ... and in a few hours we sank them in the northeast. These were the Falkland Islands. We had run between them and the main land of Patagonia. At suns... ...reathing of whales. It was on the night that we passed between the Falkland Islands and Staten Land. We had the watch from twelve to four, and coming... ...e the land upon our arrival. This is the largest point on the coast, and is uninhabited headland, stretching out into the Pacific, and has the rep... ...ve served his time in the smuggling trade between Germany and the coasts of France and England. Thus he accounted for his knowledge of the French la... ...ge part of her cargo, she stretches over to Catalina, or other of the large uninhabited islands which lie off the coast, in a trip from port to port,...

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...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

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...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ... on the wandering foam: I and you! THE ROSE 37 I am haunted by numberless islands, and many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and So... ...d him who sold tillage, and house, and goods, And sought through lands and islands numberless years, Until he found, with laughter and with tears, A w... ...E WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS 245 The First. American colonies, Ireland, France and India Harried, and Burke’s great melody against it. The Second. ... ... things remain in God. Before their eyes a house That from childhood stood Uninhabited, ruinous, Suddenly lit up From door to top: All things remain i... ...themes? First that sea rider Oisin led by the nose Through three enchanted islands, allegorical dreams, Vain gaiety, vain battle, vain repose, Themes ...