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...roduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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...onrad A PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer-... ... PENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer-... ...sity. 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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ... Joseph Conrad Pues el delito mayor Del hombre es haber nacito Calderon To Edward Lancelot Sanderson AUTHOR’S NOTE: “An Outcast of the Islands” is my ... ...ing of darkness. I let my spirit float supine over that chaos. A phrase of Edward Garnett’s is, as a matter of fact, responsible for this book. The fi... ...of them owed him money, but he never pressed anybody. Not he. Willems, the prince of good fellows, they called him. And now they will rejoice, no doub... ...e parts where no white man ruled, and to be of an oppressed race, but of a princely family. And truly enough he had all the gifts of an exiled prince....

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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... Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not ...

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...Contents PURGATORY................................................................... 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO I...

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...nts INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................7 AIDS TO THE STUDY OF THE DIVINE COMEDY .......................................................... 14 HELL .............................................................................. 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltair...

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