vendor If I Were King - Justin Huntly McCarthy In the dark main room of the Fircone Tavern the warm June air seemed to have lost all its delicacy, like a degraded angel. It was sodden through and through, as with the lees of wine; it was stained and...

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vendor The Happy Adventures - Lydia Miller Middleton Dear, dear! said Grannie, "woes cluster, as my mother used to say." "Let us hope that this is the last woe, and that now the luck will turn," said Aunt Mary. Mollie did not say anything. She had smiled the...

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vendor The Story Of A Bad Boy - Thomas Bailey Aldrich This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself. Lest the title should mislead the...

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vendor The Daredevil - Maria Thompson Daviess Was there ever a woman who did not very greatly desire for herself, at long moments, the doublet and hose of a man, perhaps also his sword, as well as his attitude in the viewing of life? I think not....

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vendor A Yankee in the Trenches - R. Derby Holmes I have tried as an American in writing this book to give the public a complete view of the trenches and life on the Western Front as it appeared to me, and also my impression of conditions and men as...

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vendor The Outlet - Andy Adams At the close of the civil war the need for a market for the surplus cattle of Texas was as urgent as it was general. There had been numerous experiments in seeking an outlet, and there is authority for the...

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vendor The Duel and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov It was eight o'clock in the morning - the time when the officers, the local officials, and the visitors usually took their morning dip in the sea after the hot, stifling night, and then went into the pavilion to drink...

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vendor Keeping Fit All the Way - Walter Camp The number of men who "keep fit" in this country has been surprisingly few, while the number of those who have made good resolutions about keeping fit is astoni-shingly large. Reflection upon this fact has convinced the writer that the...

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vendor The Life of King Henry the Fifth - William Shakespeare CHORUS. O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest...

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vendor A Happy Boy - Bjornstjerne Bjornson "A Happy Boy" was written in 1859 and 1860. It is, in my estimation, Bjornson's best story of peasant life. In it the author has succeeded in drawing the characters with remarkable distinctness, while his profound psychological insight, his perfec......

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vendor Great Astronomers - R. S. Ball It has been my object in these pages to present the life of each astronomer in such detail as to enable the reader to realise in some degree the man's character and surroundings; and I have endeavoured to indicate as...

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vendor The Ascent of the Soul - Amory H. Bradford Subjects which a few years ago were regarded as the exclusive property of cultured thinkers, are now common themes of thought and conversation. Psychology has been popularized. Materialistic doctrines are at a discount even in this age of physical......

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vendor Isobel - James Oliver Curwood At Point Fullerton, one thousand miles straight north of civilization, Sergeant William MacVeigh wrote with the stub end of a pencil between his fingers the last words of his semi-annual report to the Commissioner of the Royal Northwest Mounted Po......

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vendor Castles in the Air - Baroness Emmuska Orczy My name is Ratichon - Hector Ratichon, at your service, and I make so bold as to say that not even my worst enemy would think of minimizing the value of my services to the State. For twenty years now...

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vendor Making the Most of Life - J. R. Miller According to our Lord's teaching, we can make the most of our life by losing it. He says that losing the life for his sake is saving it. There is a lower self that must be trampled down and trampled...

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