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Excerpt: A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ernest Dowson.

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...t Dowson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ernest Dowson is a publication of th... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A P... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ernest Dowson, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...of the programme. “By what means,” she continued, “can he have tamed these animals to such a point as to be certain of their affection for—” “What see... ...ht before had served him for shelter. A vague memory made him think of the animals of the desert; and in case they might come to drink at the spring, ... ... and in the distance saw her springing toward him after the habit of these animals, who cannot run on account of the extreme flexibility of the verteb... ...ave been eating some Arab or other, have you? That doesn’t matter. They’re animals just the same as you are; but don’t you take to eating Frenchmen, o...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; Down the Rabbit-Hole -- ALICE WAS BEGINNING to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversa...

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...Table of Contents: I. Down the Rabbit-Hole, 2 -- II. The Pool of Tears, 10 -- III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale, 18 -- IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill, 26 -- V. Advice from a Caterpillar, 35 -- VI. Pig and Pepper, 46 -- VII. A Mad Tea-Party, 57 ...

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Excerpt: The Real Thing by Henry James.

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Excerpt: The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: ?Truth is strange, Stranger than fiction.? I think it but right that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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...m Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tremendous Adventures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray i... ...ures of Major Gahagan by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. T... ...ficer destroyed, with his own hand, four of the largest and most ferocious animals, and the rest, awed by the indomitable majesty of British valour, s... ...ag- erie portal, left the whole bunch in the door, which I seized when the animals were overcome. Runty Goss then opened them one by one, our troops e... ...l- ephants! the finest street, indeed, I ever saw. Each of the mon- strous animals had a castle on its back, armed with Mauritanian archers and the ce... ...e seized; and I myself, cutting up with my scimitar a couple of the fallen animals, as a butcher would a calf, motioned to the men to take the pieces ...

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...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after all, the outcome of the purest a...

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...Excerpt: Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain age. That age, which for all men lies between twe...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was Sunday, and, according to his custom on that day, McTeague took his dinner at two in the afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and suga...

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...Contents: I. PUBLIC LIFE OF MR. TULRUMBLE - ONCE MAYOR OF MUDFOG II. FULL REPORT OF THE FIRST MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING III. FULL REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE MUDFOG ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF EVERYTHING IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CO...

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...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...te University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A S... .... A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, F... ..., the sub- ject of learned researches comparable to those of Cuvier on the animals discovered in the chalk pits of Montmartre. These petty enterprises... ...ot by the bridle and gave that gut- tural cry, “Ket, ket!” to tell the two animals to collect their energy; on which, though evidently stiff, they pul... ...ways punished for disregarding them. There is one in particular, which the animals themselves obey without discussion, and invariably; it is that whic... ...beside his driver, a young man in a blouse, who called out: “Pull!” to his animals, and the vehicle, drawn by four horses brought at Roye, mounted the...