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...n by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...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... ...Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylva... ...great political party in this county anxious either for com- munism or for revolution. But, putting all that aside for the present, do you think that ... ...haps be doubted. Lady Mabel herself would not have remained. She had quite related the du- ties of life, had had her little romance,—and had acknowl- ... ...ing that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or frontiers. But he invented a pseudo-p... ... said you came to see me, you know. Have you met Miss Boncassen yet?’ ‘The American beauty? No. Is she here?’ ‘Yes; and she particularly wants to be ... ...th an understanding that he was not to see Lady Mary again till the Easter holidays. He was then to pay a visit to Matching, and to enter it, it may b...

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in ...

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... PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ... for nearly a hundred years after his death, partly owing to the immediate revolution and rebellion, and partly to the licentious taste encouraged in ... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco... ...lead in abatement of Pope’s pretensions,” that an old maiden aunt, equally related,” (that is, standing in the same relation to himself and to the poe... ...f the income, that he had to earn it by a moderate but continued exertion. Holidays, in a national establishment so great as the India House, and in o... ...ught himself capable of appearing before the public as an author. His book related simply to the subjects of his profes- sional experience as a hortic...

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... Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy acce... ...orks of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylva... ...Two Poets to prolong the time of parental rule, making him work at case on holidays, telling him that he must learn to earn his own living, so as to r... ...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash... ...druggist’s son, in Mme. de Bargeton’s house was nothing less than a little revolution. Who was responsible for it? Lamartine and Victor Hugo, Casimir ... ...d inspired Mme. de Bargeton with a taste for music and reading. During the Revolution one Abbe Niollant, the Abbe Roze’s best pupil, found a hiding-pl... ...uld authorize. Mme. de Bargeton undertook to procure this fa- vor; she was related to the Marquise d’Espard, who was a 55 Balzac Blamont-Chauvry befo...

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...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylva... ...lso have been a party against Sir Willoughby, composed of the two or three revolutionists, tired of the yoke, which are to be found in England when th... ...gentleman’s expense, the tale seemed fictitious to Laetitia until Crossjay related how that he had stood to salute on the road to the railway, and tak... ...pleased that the lead should be withdrawn from him, he turned to Clara and related one of the after-dinner anecdotes of Dr. Corney; and another, with ... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...ITIA: WITH YOUNG CROSSJAY UNDER A COVERLET YOUNG CROSSJAY was a glutton at holidays and never thought of home till it was dark. The close of the day s...

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...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... .... I have seen no grandee of V ersailles that has the noble bearing of this American envoy and his suite. They have the refinement of the Old W orld, w... ... stop to HIS lancing for the future). I hastened to Cabrera’s quarter, and related to him some of my adventures during the day. “But, General,” said h... ...hey were anxious to place at the disposal of a champion so renowned. It is related that the Duchess Regent of Kartoffelberg offered him her hand, and ... ...ble study of novels—ever since the day when, lying on sunny slopes of half-holidays, the fair 313 Burlesques chivalrous figures and beautiful shapes ... ...ng, making friends, and play- ing tricks from morning to night, during the holidays. Indeed, it 368 Thackeray was from young Mac that we first heard ...

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...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of B...

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...from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2000 The Pennsylva... ...youth of missionary parents, earned enough money to pay his expenses at an American college. Equipped with this small sum and the earnestness that the... ...he distinction of translation into more languages, I think, than any other American book; and I suppose that he has as large a per- sonal acquaintance... ...ere in then very long. I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artif... ...tion to the immediate family there sometimes were relatives, or others not related to the family, who slept in the same room. On more than one occasio... ...lgium. The next day after we landed happened to be one of those numberless holidays which the people of those coun- tries are in the habit of observin...