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Produced by David WidgerTHEIR PILGRIMAGEBy Charles Dudley WarnerI FORTRESS MONROEWhen Irene looked out of her stateroom window early in the morning ofthe twentieth of March there was a softness and luminous quality inthe horizon clouds that prophesied spring The steamboat which had leftBaltimore and an arctic temperatu... | 2 |
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Produced by Emma Dudding Dagny John Bickers David WidgerTHE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSENBy Rudolph Erich RaspePublished in 1895INTRODUCTIONIt is a curious fact that of that class of literature to whichMunchausen belongs that namely of _Voyages Imaginaires_ the threegreat types should have all been created ... | 44 |
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Produced by Charles Franks and the Online DistributedProofreading Team HTML version by Al HainesHappy HawkinsbyRobert Alexander WasonTOMY OLD PALCONTENTS I THE DIAMOND DOT II CONVINCING A COOK III UNDER FIRE IV PROFESSIONAL DUTY V JUST MONODYA MAN VI THE RACE VII MENTAL TREATME... | 0 |
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Produced by David WidgerTHE EMPEROR CompleteBy Georg EbersTranslated by Clara BellPREFACEIt is now fourteen years since I planned the story related in thesevolumes the outcome of a series of lectures which I had occasion todeliver on the period of the Roman dominion in Egypt But the pleasuresof inventive composition we... | 4 |
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Produced by Freethought ArchivesGOOD SENSE WITHOUT GODORFREETHOUGHTS OPPOSED TO SUPERNATURAL IDEASBy Baron DholbachFreethinkers Library SeriesLondon W Stewart CoA Translation Of Baron Dholbachs Le Bon SensTranscribers note this etext is based on an undated English translationof Le Bon Sens published c 1900 The name of... | 3 |
Produced by Dagny and John Bickers THE RESOURCES OF QUINOLA A COMEDY IN A PROLOGUE AND FIVE ACTS BY HONORE DE BALZAC First Presented at the Theatre de lOdeon Paris March 19 1842 AUTHORS PREFACEHad... | 13 |
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Produced by Judith BossJames PethelByMAX BEERBOHMI was shocked this morning when I saw in my newspaper a paragraphannouncing his sudden death I do not say that the shock was verydisagreeable One reads a newspaper for the sake of news Had I nevermet James Pethel belike I should never have heard of him and myknowledge... | 13 |
Produced by David WidgerTHE PARISIANSBy Edward BulwerLyttonPREFATORY NOTE BY THE AUTHORS SONThe Parisians and Kenelm Chillingly were begun about the same timeand had their common origin in the same central idea That idea firstfound fantastic expression in The Coming Race and the three bookstaken together constitute a s... | 0 |
Produced by James RuskA TERRIBLE TEMPTATIONA STORY OF TODAYBy Charles ReadeCHAPTER ITHE morningroom of a large house in Portman Square LondonA gentleman in the prime of life stood with his elbow on the broadmantelpiece and made himself agreeable to a young lady seated alittle way off playing at workTo the ear he was on... | 0 |
Produced by John Bickers and Dagny THE CELIBATES BY HONORE DE BALZAC INTRODUCTION_Les Celibataires_ the longest number of the original _ComedieHumaine_ under a single title next to _Illusions perdues_ is no... | 50 |
Produced by John Bickers and DagnyPARISIANS IN THE COUNTRYTHE ILLUSTRIOUS GAUDISSARTAND THE MUSE OF THE DEPARTMENTBy Honore De BalzacINTRODUCTIONI have sometimes wondered whether it was accident or intention whichmade Balzac so frequently combine early and late work in the samevolume The question is certainly insoluble... | 13 |
Produced by William Thierenspiii TRAVELS IN ARABIACOMPREHENDINGAN ACCOUNT OF THOSE TERRITORIES IN HEDJAZ WHICH THE MOHAMMEDANSREGARDAS SACREDBY THE LATEJOHN LEWIS BURCKHARDTPUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTINGTHE DISCOVERY OF THE INTERIOR OF AFRICALONDON HENRY COLBURN NEW BURLINGTON STREET 1829pv PR... | 0 |
Produced by Robert Fite Tom Allen David Moynihan Charles Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading TeamTranscribers Note Lengthy footnotes or those consisting of morethan one paragraph have been numbered and relocated to the end of thechapter in which they occur They are marked by 1 2 etcCOUNT FRONTENACANDNEW FRANC... | 9 |
Produced by Charles Aldarondo Keren Vergon Thomas Berger and theOnline Distributed Proofreading TeamTHE DRAMATIC WORKSOFGERHART HAUPTMANNAuthorized EditionEdited By LUDWIG LEWISOHNAssistant Professor in The Ohio State UniversityVOLUME TWO SOCIAL DRAMAS1913CONTENTSINTRODUCTION_By the Editor_DRAYMAN HENSCHEL Fuhrmann Hen... | 6 |
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