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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...rge of any kind. Any person 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. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...cited more accurately and dozens Bostoned more smoothly. Every cell of her body was alive—thin wrists, quince-blossom skin, inge- nue eyes, black hair... ...hair. The other girls in her dormitory marveled at the slight- ness of her body when they saw her in sheer negligee, or darting out wet from a shower-... ...thness of the satin back of his waist- coat, seem almost to creep into his body, find in him strength, find in the courage and kindness of her man a ... ...ast night? Some squeezing, heh, kid?” By diligent consultation of American fiction she dis- covered that this was the only virile and amusing manner i... ... of forgiveness. She could not remember any fasci- natingly wicked hero of fiction who chewed tobacco. She asserted that it proved him to be a man of ... ...ual life it passed forty years ago. Carol’s small town thinks not in hoss- swapping but in cheap motor cars, telephones, ready- made clothes, silos, a...

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...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but wh...

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...rge of any kind. Any person 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 Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wel... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...again, came down again perhaps thirty yards away, and rolled over with its body wriggling and its sting stabbing out and back in its last agony. He em... ... its sting was three inches long. The abdomen was blown clean off from its body, but he estimated the length of the creature from head to sting as eig... ...nt, and it stung him through the boot as he struck at it again and cut its body in half. He was first dead of the two…. The most dramatic of the fifty... ...” “We’re not in the Middle Ages,” said Redwood. “I know.” “As Cossar says, swapping wisdom—that’s the true scien- tific method.” “In most cases, certa...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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