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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no...

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Excerpt: The Professor by Charlotte Bronte.

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

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Excerpt: Nuttie?s Father by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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Excerpt: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte.

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Waverley or ?Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott.

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Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

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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 of his activities in this world se...

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Excerpt: Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott.

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Excerpt: Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear...

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