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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...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... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ... experienced fact.” JAMES PURDY, novelist: “An important writer... I find great pleasure in his work. Really beautiful and distinguished.” ALICE S.... ...erception and sensitivity.” FRANK TANNENBAUM, historian: “...written with great sensibility” Worchester Telegram: “Between realism and poetry...bri... ...fire as we cooked the mutton meat. I don’t like mutton meat. I don’t like smoky fires. Papa sings badly. My dog got sick. I suppose all that was v... ...n in Bewick, when we were on a summer’s tour. How vividly I remember that smoky inn—the crowd, the torches. In Chester, my lines once more escaped m... ...ble. I can not express my thanks for food when men are hungry. When whole communities are hungry, when death stalks our nation. If I am fortunate I ...

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... Deviations: Covenant Elissa Malcohn Second Edition This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the prod... ...s is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any... ...of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblanc... ...ssa Malcohn. All rights reserved. This e-book edition has been prepared by the author for a limited, free-distribution offer to the reading public.... ...anly and carry them into Basc. She would present them and the satchel, with great respect, to Ulik's widow. She would recount Ulik's death, speaking... ...a deity—and if Ulik had passed into the next world, he now possessed powers greater than those of his own life. She should rejoice. How did one rej... ...e. We are here for you as well." "My demons are spent." He looked up at the smoky ceiling. "For now." Zai gave his shoulders a last squeeze and let ... ...taught its laws to the young. But the hunters were the life-givers of their communities, entrusted with the most serious of responsibilities. They a... ...oning Yata meat among the populace. In return they tithed their paired Yata communities, erected shrines and collected testaments to immortalize tho...

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...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ... around the fire 1910 CANK COMMITTEE had subsided. Northrop Clarey '07, of Great Barrington made the opening address. "Fellow students: members of the... ...nical improve- ment; but the spiritual element had begun to wane. His last great work was his Sistiue Madonna. After this, none of his works may be ca... ...cient and Modem Self-defense." "Grinds," "The Removal of Clark Hall," and "Smoky Moke, Pittsburg's only Representative," who afford- ed a charming sym... ...ve any material bene- fit from a college, in order to en- rich the ooljcgo communities. The soliciting of subscriptions for the " Purple Cow " periodi... ..." which maintains that all Iffws are an outgrowth of the conditions in the communities whose code they compose, depend- ing upon the form of governmen...

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Excerpt: Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...ontemplating those airy abstrac- tions and lofty visions of which alone he greatly cared to sing, to the neglect and detriment of the merely external ... ...phazard as it is, however, Shelley’s punctuation, so far as it goes, is of great value as an index to his metrical, or at times, it may be, to his rhe... ...orning rise, Whilst still no land to greet the wanderer spread Its shadowy mountains on the sunbright sea, Where the loud roarings of the tempest-wave... ...r benevolence in the imaginations of men, which, arising from the enslaved communities of the East, then first began to overwhelm the western nations ... ...LL. HELL. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Hell is a city much like London— A populous and a smoky city; There are all sorts of people undone, And there is little or no...

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