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Excerpt: The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham.

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

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... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...ific woodlands -- Adventures in the New World -- The first white man that ever set foot on the American continent -- Killing of Thorwald by natives --... ...y in which infants are attended by their fathers -- A gold and silver monument set over the body of a King -- Its dazzling beauty -- The lion hunters ... ...ortez inflamed with passion -- A meeting in camp -- A self-constituted council set up -- An alliance with the Totonacs -- Scenes in the chief city of ... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ... fact that in one of his land journeys he had discovered a channel along North Somerset, and had great hopes that it might be the entrance to the open...

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...Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfar.. Snakelex is a first class demon on assignment to a small country town in Australia. Spiritual warfare will be battled out between good and evil. Snakelex must use every dirty trick in the book...

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...ll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy... ...g, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. This is a work of fiction. Names, cha... ...tion: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. In the beginning, ... ...nings way back in the eighteen hundreds. Apparently, two escaped convicts set up camp for the night and after having consumed a little too much rum,... ... as it embarrassed the boss, who frowned on such stupidity. Once Snakelex set foot on solid ground, the beady-eyed demon looked back and made a rude... .... A parent has no problems trying to drag junior away from the television set, as reception is so poor, most have given it up. Adults rely on the ra... ...rk for the world than to work for God. It is easier to read magazines and novels than to read God’s word. It is easier to donate time or money to on... ...re, through to World War Two. The demon even threw in Mrs Worthington of Somerset farm in Britain, who was incited to start a family feud over chick...

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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 caused a mild sens...

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... H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...tate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The World Set Free by H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells] We are all things that make a... ...ction 5 FREDERICK BARNET’S WANDER JAHRE is one of those autobio- graphical novels that were popular throughout the third and fourth decades of the twe... ...uneasy complaint that was presently an innumerable multitude of books. The novels more particularly of the nine- teenth century, if one excludes the m... ...ation. Religion was the privilege of the pulpit…. It was not only from the novels that religion was omitted. It was ignored by the newspapers; it was ...

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...Excerpt: Part 1. One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have things out with her father that very evening. She had trembled on the verge of such a resolution before,...

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Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...Excerpt: Deceived in Friendship and Betrayed in Love.? Letter the First From Isabel to Laura How often, in answer to my repeated intreaties that you would give my Daughter a regular detail of the Misfortunes and Adventures of your Life, have y...

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...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...pute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knocker, and the fan-light, were all as clean and bright, as indefatigab...

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...t Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacture in the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere. He wore it, he said, at the battle of Vinegar Hill, when his club pigtail saved his head from being taken off,--but tha...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with tho...

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...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

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...LOVE AND LIFE An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume By CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love and Life by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...g her lost husband. Venus spurned her at first, and then made her a slave, set- ting her first to sort a huge heap of every kind of grain in a single ... ...d breeding. Harriet (pronounced Hawyot), the next in age, had a small well-set head, a pretty neck, and fine dark eyes, but the small-pox had made hav... ...ar, what matters it what an old scarecrow like me puts on?” Old maidenhood set in much earlier in those days than at present; the sisters acquiesced, ... ...t track, so rough that the four horses came to a walk. Aurelia had read no novels but Telemaque and Le Grand Cyrus, so her imagination was not terrifi... ...e westward was closed in by a stately edifice which she did not know to be Somerset House; and from another window on the east side of the house she s...

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...Excerpt: If you remember, madame, the pleasure your conversation gave to a traveler by recalling Paris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days th...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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