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Book: Moon Face — And Other Stories
By Jack London
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John Claverhouse was a moon-faced man. You know the kind, cheek-bones
wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the
perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the
circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like a
dough-ball upon
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Book: The Mutiny Of The Elsinore
By Jack London
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From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a
bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier- end
precisely on time. At nine o'clock the tug was to have taken me down the
bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat
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Book: Mysteries Of — Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe
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At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-,
I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in
company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or
book-closet, au troisieme, No. 33, Rue Dunot, Faubourg St. Germain. For
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Book: The Mysterious Affair At Styles
By Agatha Christie
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The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided. Nevertheless, in view of the world-wide notoriety which attended it, I have been asked, both by my friend Poirot and the family themselves, to write an account of the
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Book: The Mysterious Island
By Jules Verne
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"Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!" "For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast!" "There! the last sack is empty!" "Does the balloon rise?" "No!" "I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It
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Book: Myths and Legends of the Sioux
By Mrs. Marie L. McLaughlin
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In publishing these "Myths of the Sioux," I deem it proper to state
that I am of one-fourth Sioux blood . . . My grandmother, Ha-za-ho-ta-win, was a full-blood of the Medawakanton
Band of the Sioux Tribe of Indians. My father . . .
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Book: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth
By Sojourner Truth ( dictated to Olive Gilbert )
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The Subject of this biography, SOJOURNER TRUTH, as she now calls herself
— but whose name, originally, was Isabella — was born, as near
as she can now calculate, between the years 1797 and 1800. She was the
daughter of James and Betsey, slaves of one Colonel Ardinburgh, Hurley,
Ulster County, New York.
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Book: New Arabian Nights — A Collection Of Short Tales
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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During his residence in London, the accomplished Prince Florizel of
Bohemia gained the affection of all classes by the seduction of his
manner and by a well-considered generosity. He was a remarkable man even
by what was known of him; and that was but a small part of what he
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Book: The Night Born — And Other Stories
By Jack London
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It was in the old Alta-Inyo Club -- a warm night for San Francisco --
and through the open windows, hushed and far, came the brawl of the
streets. The talk had led on from the Graft Prosecution and the latest
signs that the town was to be run wide open, down through all
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Book: Oliver Twist — Or, The Parish Boy's Progress
By Charles Dickens
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Treats Of The Place Where Oliver Twist Was Born And Of The Circumstances
Attending His Birth. Among other public buildings in a certain town,
which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning,
and to which I will
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Book: An Old Fashioned Girl
By Louisa May Alcott
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"Well, I call that mean! I supposed I'd got to go; but you said you'd go, too. Catch me bothering about your friends another time!
No, sir! " And Tom rose from the sofa with an air of indignant
resolution, the impressive effect of which was somewhat damaged
by a tousled head, and the hunched appearance of his garments
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Book: Options A Collection Of Stories
By O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter )
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When The Rose of Dixie magazine was started by a stock company in Toombs City, Georgia, there was never but one candidate for its chief editorial position in the minds of its owners. Col. Aquila Telfair was the man for the place. By all the rights of learning, family, reputation, and
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Book: The Orange Fairy Book
By Andrew Lang, Editor
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Once upon a time,
at the town of Senna on the banks of the Zambesi, was born a child. He was not like other children, for he was very tall and strong; over his shoulder he carried a big sack, and in his hand an iron hammer. He could also speak like a grown man, but usually he was very silent.
One day his mother said to him: 'My child, by what name shall we know
you?' And he answered: 'Call all the head men of Senna here to the river's bank
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Book: The Patchwork Girl of Oz
By L. Frank Baum
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"Where's the butter, Unc Nunkie?" asked Ojo.
Unc looked out of the window and stroked his
long beard. Then he turned to the Munchkin boy and
shook his head. "Isn't," said he.
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Book: Persuasion
By Jane Austen
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Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who,
for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Baronetage; there
he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one;
there his faculties were roused into admiration and respect, by
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Book: The Phantom Rickshaw — And Other Ghost Stories
By Rudyard Kipling
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May no ill dreams disturb my rest, Nor Powers of Darkness me molest. -Evening Hymn. One of the few advantages that India has over England is a great Knowability. After five years' service a man is directly
or indirectly
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Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray
By Oscar Wilde
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"How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June. — If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that — for that I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"
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Book: Plato's The Republic
By Plato, Translated By Benjamin Jowett
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The Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception
of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer
approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the Sophist;
the Politicus or Statesman is more ideal; the form and institutions
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Book: Pride And Prejudice
By Jane Austen
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession
of a large fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known
the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a
neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds
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Book: Machiavelli's — The Prince
By Nicolo Machiavelli, Translated By W. K. Marriot
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Nicolo Machiavelli Was Born At Florence On 3rd May 1469. He Was The
Second Son Of Bernardo Di Nicolo Machiavelli, A Lawyer Of Some Repute,
And Of Bartolommea Di Stefano Nelli, His Wife. Both Parents Were Members
Of The Old Florentine Nobility.
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Book: Prince Otto — A Romance
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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You shall seek in vain upon the map of Europe for the bygone state of
Grunewald. An independent principality, an infinitesimal member of the
German Empire, she played, for several centuries, her part in the discord
of Europe; and, at last, in the ripeness of time and at the spiriting of
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Book: The Prince And The Pauper
By Mark Twain ( Samuel Langhorne Clemens )
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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second
quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the
name of Canty, who did not want him. On the same day another English
child was born to a rich family of the name of Tudor, who did want him.
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Book: A Princess Of Mars
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
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I am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred,
possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men,
nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty. I appear today as I did forty years and
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Book: The Red Fairy Book
By Andrew Lang, Editor
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Once upon a time,
there lived in the village of Montignies-sur-Roc a little cow-boy, without either father or mother. His real name was
Michael, but he was always called the Star Gazer, because when he drove
his cows over the commons to seek for pasture, he went along with his
head in the air, gaping at nothing.
As he had a white skin, blue eyes, and hair that curled all over his
head, the village girls used to cry after him, `Well, Star Gazer, what
are you doing?' and Michael would answer, `Oh, nothing,' and go on his
way without even turning to look at them
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Book: The Red Fairy Book
By Andrew Lang, Editor
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Once upon a time,
there lived in the village of Montignies-sur-Roc a little cow-boy, without either father or mother. His real name was
Michael, but he was always called the Star Gazer, because when he drove
his cows over the commons to seek for pasture, he went along with his
head in the air, gaping at nothing.
As he had a white skin, blue eyes, and hair that curled all over his
head, the village girls used to cry after him, `Well, Star Gazer, what
are you doing?' and Michael would answer, `Oh, nothing,' and go on his
way without even turning to look at them
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Book: The Red House Mystery
By A.A. Milne
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Antony couldn't help feeling a thrill of excitement as he followed Cayley's example, and put his face close up to the glass. For the first time he wondered if there really had been a revolver shot in this mysterious room. It had all seemed so absurd and melodramatic from the other side of the door. But if there had been one shot, why should there not be two more? - at the careless fools who were pressing their noses against the panes, and asking for it
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Book: The Return Of Sherlock Holmes — A Collection Of Holmes Adventures
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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It was in the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and
the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald
Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. The public
has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the
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Book: The Return Of Tarzan
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
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"Magnifique!" ejaculated the Countess de Coude, beneath her breath.
"Eh?" questioned the count, turning toward his young wife. "What is it
that is magnificent?" and the count bent his eyes in various directions
in quest of the object of her admiration.
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Book: Riders Of The Purple Sage
By Zane Grey
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A sharp clip-crop of iron-shod hoofs deadened and died away, and clouds
of yellow dust drifted from under the cottonwoods out over the sage.
Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled
eyes. A rider had just left her and it was his message that held her
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Book: Roads Of Destiny And Other Stories
By O. Henry ( William Sidney Porter )
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I go to seek on many roads What is to be. True heart and strong, with
love to light -- Will they not bear me in the fight To order, shun or
wield or mould My Destiny? The song was over. The words were David's;
the air, one of the
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