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...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ton wagon umbrella, Presley recognised Hooven, one of Derrick’s tenants, a German, whom every one called “Bismarck,” an excitable little man with a pe... ... fashion, Presley was determined that his poem should be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, a... ...wearied him. He cared for none of these things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagina... ...ce of hops. “Hops ought to be a good thing,” Harran told him. “The crop in Germany and in New York has been a dead failure for the last three years, a... ...e, making just enough butter and cheese for the consumption of the ranch’s personnel. Old man Tree, his wife, and his daughter Hilma looked after the ... ...drills, each with its eight hoes, went clamouring past, like an advance of military, seeding the ten thousand acres of the great ranch; fecundating th... ...an, grimed with the soil he worked in, yet vividly remembering a period of military glory, exciting himself with recollections of Gravelotte and the K...

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Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...s reached: the mystery of the individual. Will England presently produce a military genius? or what will Mr. Belloc say the day after to-morrow? The m... ... who will.” It is surely as interesting that presently some founder of the World Republic, some obstinate opponent of militarism or legalism, or the m... ...nue to be a prelude. The prophetic type will steadfastly refuse to see the world as a museum; it will insist that here is a stage set for a drama that... ...nd. Long before Europe was familiar with the engaging person- ality of the German Crown Prince, he represented great air- ships sailing over England (... ... Brighton before 1910, which is still a dream, but he doubted if effective military aviation or aerial fighting would be possible before 1950, which i... ...he trenches of France and Flanders, and on the battlefields of Russia, the Germans have been spending and making the world spend the comfort, the luxu... ...here will be nothing strange in this idea of its completer detachment. Its personnel does to a large extent constitute a class apart. It 134 What Is ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...

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