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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

... © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel S... ...l Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the... ...lf at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in Jerusalem? • Who is Frankenberg, the investigative journali... ...e Holocaust, the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in motion only so late in World War II? • Why did the Nazi SS work hand-in-glove with Zi... ...incongruent. This is what I told Bauer when I returned, empty-handed: “There was little to salvage. I think they were equipped with the same fine ... ...toed towards the open door that marked my niche, knocked, and entered. I remember little else, except the sound of a distant shot and the blurred ... ... in thought and then resumed her oration: “In 1935, Hitler and his minions made a series of surprising statements.” – Libby leafed through another... ... Seeing what must have been a horrified expression on my face, she busily flicked a series of metal switches next to her chair and the fans overhead ... ...apart. We attended the same high school and proceeded to graduate from the same Ivy League university. We even had essentially the same job: Josh wa...

...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the...

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20, 000 Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

...,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a public... ...by Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...a by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...of the marvellous, we can understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition. As to classing it in the list of fab... ...loon, a slight shock was felt on the hull of the Scotia, on her quarter, a little aft of the port-paddle. The Scotia had not struck, but she had been ... ...the floating island, and the unapproach- able sandbank, supported by minds little competent to form a judgment, was abandoned. And, indeed, unless thi... ...heory, plausible as it was, could not stand against inquiries made in both worlds. That a private gentleman should have such a machine at his command ...

...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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Secret of the Sands

By: Aren, Rai and E., Tavius

...y Robinson: www.jeremyrobinsononline.com No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission, e... ...r information address rai-tavius@secretofthesands.com Visit Rai Aren & Tavius E. on the World Wide Web at: www.secretofthesands.com ... ... your brain,” Mitch said. “But it’s my favorite hat! Besides, I think it makes me look a little like Indiana Jones,” she said smiling and cracking ... ... he had found numerous ancient tombs, and where he was now focusing his own efforts. Very little had been found in the ancient cellar he left Mitch a... ... prominently, it’s very unusual,” she said. Mitch nodded, “It’s usually accompanied by a series of hieroglyphs. And look at it, it has detailing in... ... were spinning with possibilities, with hope. Perhaps this would be their shot at the big leagues: important excavations, recognition, funding, and m... ...ound, imagining the most incredible finds in the history of archaeology, things the whole world would talk about. He would always play along and toge... ...ey ring and handed it to Bob. “It’s for this locker here,” he said as he walked over to a series of lockers at the Rai Aren & Tavius E. 34 back... ... stroked his thick mane. Odai had found the lion cub nine years ago in the bushes several leagues south down the river. Its mother had abandoned it ...

...For 12,000 years a dark and deadly secret has been hidden deep below the Great Sphinx of Giza. In present day Egypt, a frightening, yet awe-inspiring story unravels as archaeologists race against time to decipher an ancient truth? A deep probing mystery riddled with prophecy and danger, Secret of the Sands uses Egypt a...

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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of S... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gull... ...TRY OF SINGALING From one of the two most advanced countries of the world to the other. Singaling, just off the Malay Peninsula, tooled its ph... ...for the glass, wood, brick, and steel buildings which were the hub of the world's most prosperous nation. But what impressed me most was the cleanl... ...ut reducing the rich-poor gap. But such communistic ideas have as yet had little effect on this free enterpriset power. In contrast, Singaling has e... ...es. It struck me over the years of visiting the former Soviet Union that little old ladies were given jobs sweeping the streets with their long bro... ...l family values. We allow no other activities between 6 and 7 PM—no youth league sports, no TV, no concerts. “We have some other requiremen... ... —“I don‟t know about your system, but I have experienced the systems in Canada, Norway and the UK, and I‟ll take ours. I remember in Canada having... ...ho was an amateur here, playing professionally for Arsenal in the Premier League. And we have three actors who have left for professional careers abr...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ... ...human values really fascinates me. The most important discussions in this world are about values of one sort or another. My friends and I once share... ... eat ‗chop chop!‘‖ --―Wreck, you think that just because you took one little cruise through space you can tell us what to do. Remember I‘m stil... ...ety?‖ --―I hate to say it but I do. Being invited to speak around the world and teaching in major universities makes me feel that I am important... ...es because the earth is somewhat round. It is an oblate spheroid, being a little flatter on the top and bottom and wider at the Equator so we have to... ...ians who have abused their office for financial gain, some of these major league crooks are re-drawing their maps and taking the higher road. If ther... ...ame conclusion. For example, if we take the three numbers 2, 4 and 8 in a series and ask you to name the next number. You might say 16 or 10, Both w... ...‘s share—and you don‘t even have a welfare state—at least not in the same league with Denmark. But then Denmark didn‘t go to war against some Muslims... ...Wong Kim Ark case grants citizenship to the children of legal aliens, in a series of cases called the Slaughterhouse cases, the court noted that ‗th...

...ine and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even some wars. In the year 2020 Commander Lemuel Gulliver XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search ...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ...e aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talking to the world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem... ...e on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world. Even though he cared about family (what was left of it with both h... ...m ul cajigo isumnita. I sarem i wanhamnita." He threw in both names that the little guy went by and the telephone clicked off. He called again. "Yobos... ...ct ideas must not have existed in his head at all. In short, he "knew " very little and the scanty but pathetic information he received might, for wha... ...wang Sook's school, Sang Huin had asked the children to draw verbs next to a series of words they found from his handout. When this was finished, he w... ...and so eternal, with no sense of human time, that a human life and its brief series of short-lived motions on one obscure planet would be inconsequent... ...g the latter task from incompetence and the need to drive the boys to little league practice. Even until now there were no cards or special letters se...

...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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Jockeys and Jewels

By: Bev Pettersen

...s reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or a portion thereof, in any form. This book may not be resold or uploaded for distribution ... ...mud, blasted on his bugle, and the post parade began. Most fans sought refuge in the clubhouse, yet ten feet away two women in stylish raincoats als... ...rage as he fought to regain his composure. Any return to the bleak undercover world filled him with distaste, but it was obvious he’d accept this as... ...r head and shot Sandra a silent plea for patience. Sandra was outspoken, with little tolerance for fools. Yet Bill had promised Julie she'd be the jo... ...oo. The three or four hole would probably be best considering the forecast. A little rain... “I told you not to ride Princess alone!” Bill scuttled... ...m his head. Free from his stranglehold, she dropped her head and ripped out a series of jolting bucks. Kurt squeezed the rail in a sympathy grip, w... ...still functioning. Kurt had left police work and immersed himself in the race world. Connor, older but less emotionally scathed, had stayed with the... ...her left ear and twisted, forcing her head back down. His breath escaped in a series of grunts as he buckled the throatlatch then lashed a chain bene... ...e long side pocket of his apron. “Thought you Woodbine guys were strictly big league.” “I run all types, and she did come third tonight.” Kurt paus...

...ater track where his partner was last seen alive. Julie West, a dedicated but struggling jockey, pins her dreams of an elusive win on the new trainer in town, never suspecting she’s a person of interest—and not because of her riding skills.Kurt didn’t expect his contrary colt to flourish under Julie’s feminine touch nor for his own rusty heart to soften. However, his decei...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of th... ...it by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Dorrit Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University... ...by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...arrying his daughter, three or four years old, and a basket. ‘How goes the world this forenoon, gentlemen? My little one, you see, going round with me... ...ood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the ... ...ws. I have been carted out of Marseilles in the dead of night, and carried leagues away from it packed in straw. It has not been safe for me to go nea... ...ith disconcertment, as she sat breathing bitterness and scorn, and staring leagues away. Flora, how- ever, received the remark as if it had been of a ...

...uous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

...llow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Li...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...The World Set Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of t... ...ree by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ree by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ...lls of Brissago, beheld in Geneva at the other end of Switzer- land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States... ...Brissago, beheld in Geneva at the other end of Switzer- land a poor little League of (Allied) Nations (excluding the 5 H G Wells United States, Russi... ...b-tropical river val- leys would you have found the squatting lairs of his little herds, a male, a few females, a child or so. He knew no future then,...

Excerpt: The World Set Free by H. G. Wells.

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Little Dorrit Book One Poverty

By: Charles Dickens

...orrit Book One Poverty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is ... ...ty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Dorrit, Book One: Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State... ... Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...arrying his daughter, three or four years old, and a basket. ‘How goes the world this forenoon, gentlemen? My little one, you see, going round with me... ...ood, English by birth. I myself was born in Belgium. I am a citizen of the world.’ His theatrical air, as he stood with one arm on his hip within the ... ...ws. I have been carted out of Marseilles in the dead of night, and carried leagues away from it packed in straw. It has not been safe for me to go nea... ...ith disconcertment, as she sat breathing bitterness and scorn, and staring leagues away. Flora, how- ever, received the remark as if it had been of a ...

...uous attention than anyone else can have given them during its desultory publication, it is not unreasonable to ask that the weaving may be looked at in its completed state, and with the pattern finished....

...llow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch has another Dream 16. Nobody?s Weakness 17. Nobody?s Rival 18. Li...

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In the Fourth Year Anticipations of a World Peace

By: H. G. Wells

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...ions of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H... ...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...tronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...eace by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...s carried the world on beyond and replaced that phrase by the phrase, “The League of Nations,” a phrase sug- gesting plainly the organization of a suf... ...ent instrument by which war may be ended for ever. In 1913 talk of a World League of Nations would have seemed, to the extremest pitch, “Utopian.” T o... ...graphy, but be- cause I should be sorry to have the reader think that this little book pretends to state the case rather than a case for the League of... ... the powers of the League. But before I come to that I would like to say a little about the more gen- eral question of its nature and authority. What ...

...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

By: Daniel Defoe

...ntures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Def... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...oe by Daniel Defoe, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...sity to rambling which I gave an account of in my first setting out in the world to have been so predomi- nant in my thoughts, should be worn out, and... ...s, should be worn out, and I might, at sixty one years of age, have been a little inclined to stay at home, and have done venturing life and fortune a... ...ard persons of good judgment say that all the stir that people make in the world about ghosts and appa- ritions is owing to the strength of imaginatio... ...tent upon her words, and that I looked very earnestly at her, so that it a little disordered her, and she stopped. I asked her why she did not go on, ... ...no land that way in which the fire showed itself, no, not for five hundred leagues, for it appeared at WNW. Upon this, we concluded it must be some sh... ...nd he points to the hill just above my old house; and though we lay half a league off, he cries out, “W e see! we see! yes, we see much man there, and...

...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circu...

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The Chouans

By: Honoré de Balzac

... ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presc... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chouans by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Worm... ... Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ad left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up the little mountain of La Pelerine, half-way between Fougeres and Ernee, a smal... ...er a heavy stick of knotted oak, at the end of which hung a linen bag with little in it. Some wore, over the red cap, a coarse felt hat, with a broad ... ...m and miracle that were absolutely startling. His voice echoed through the world like the voice of a prophet, for none of his proclamations had, as ye... ...seen the tip-end of the nose of the young lady, and I’ll declare the whole world needn’t be ashamed to feel an itch, as I do, to revolve round that ca... ...let me convert you, only you,” she said, “we might live happily a thousand leagues away from all this.” “These men whom you seem to despise,” said the...

...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

...shed and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publi... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... .......................................... 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III:... ...s possible, in order that you may make what use of them you see fit, be it little or much. It may so happen that the public demand will give you no op... ...r even approximated by the utmost anxieties of man. Not the Bible, not the little book which, in past times, came next to the Bible in European diffus... ... said that, after all efforts to publish itself, still it remains, for the world of possible read- ers, “as good as manuscript”? Not to insist, howeve... ...ion a vast Jacob’s ladder towering upwards to the clouds, mile after mile, league after league; and myself running up and down this ladder, like any f... ...the case, (not at all unlikely , he affirmed,) that a federation, a solemn league and conspiracy, might take place amongst the infinite generations of...

...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

........... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ 16 CHAPTER II: INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD OF STRIFE ........................................... 42 CHAPTER III: INFANT LITERATURE.................................................................................... 105 CHAPTER IV: THE FEMALE INFIDEL ...............

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Life on the Mississippi

By: Mark Twain

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State ... ...bout 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the froz... ...le. Considering the Missouri its main branch, it is the longest river in the world—four thousand three hun dred miles. It seems safe to say that it i... ...idth steadily diminishes, until, at the ‘Passes,’ above the mouth, it is but little over half a mile. At the junction of the Ohio the Mississippi’s de... ...en better to paint a picture of it. The date 1542, standing by itself, means little or nothing to us; but when one groups a few neighboring historical... ...side the old sycamore snag, now.” * So that question was answered. Here were leagues of shore changing shape. My spirits were down in the mud again. T... ...he loneliness of this solemn, stupendous flood is impressive—and depressing. League after league, and still league after league, it pours its chocolat... ...with the forms of these shelter dykes, their arrangements so as to present a series of settling basins, etc., a description of which would only compli...

...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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The Pathfinder

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pathfinder by James Fenimore Cooper is a publicatio... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ... writer, since he has an interest in the individual in question that falls little short of reality. It is not an easy task, however, to introduce the ... ... must be the “end” that will “crown the work.” The Indian character has so little variety, that it has been my object to avoid dwelling on it too much... ...he more pow- erful and the largest. But there is no end to conceit in this world: for a fellow who never saw salt water often fancies he knows more th... ...an actually get that of the other.” “And yet we sailors, who run about the world so much, say there is but one nature, whether it be in the Chinaman o... ...large about it? Didn’t Jasper himself confess that it was only some twenty leagues from shore to shore?” “But, uncle,” interposed Mabel, “no land is t... ...bank of the lake? and aren’t there trees in thou- sands? and aren’t twenty leagues narrow enough of all con- science? Who the devil ever heard of the ...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...OBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publica... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...ckingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy-stron... ...imal in creation.” —Goldsmith, Nat. Hist. “If you should write a fable for little fishes, you would make them speak like great wales.” —Goldsmith to J... ...m Whale) should have been so entirely neglected, or should have excited so little curiosity among the numerous, and many of them competent observers, ... ...s they possibly can without falling in. And there they stand—miles of them—leagues. In- landers all, they come from lanes and alleys, streets and av- ... ...us chalices! Bestow them, ye who are now made parties to this indissoluble league. Ha! Starbuck! but the deed is done! Y on ratifying sun now waits to...

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The Last of the Mohicans, A Narrative of 1757

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...arrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James ... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...es Fenimore Cooper, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable D... ...sons, the birds, the beasts, 4 The Last of the Mohicans and the vegetable world. In this, perhaps, he does no more than any other energetic and imagi... ...t, the country which is the scene of the follow- ing tale has undergone as little change, since the historical events alluded to had place, as almost ... ...ise and energy of a people who have done so much in other places have done little here. The whole of that wilderness, in which the latter incidents of... ...tless islands, and imbedded in mountains, the “holy lake” extended a dozen leagues still fur- ther to the south. With the high plain that there interp... ...een mentioned that the distance between these two posts was less than five leagues. The rude path, which originally formed their line of communication... ...e of those unaccountable freaks which nature sometimes plays in the animal world, gave rise to a breed of horses which were once well known in America...

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Vanity Fair

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...BY William Makepeace Thackeray Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-fi... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Vanity Fair: Volume One (Chapters One through Twenty-five) by W... ...akepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Do... ...e paint off his cheeks before he sits down to dinner with his wife and the little Jack Puddings behind the canvas. The curtain will be up presently, ... ...ave given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. The famous little Becky Puppet has been pronounced to be un- commonly flexible in the ... ... her, she and her awful sister will never issue therefrom into this little world of history. But as we are to see a great deal of Amelia, there is no ... ...; the great gates were closed; the bell rang for the dancing les- son. The world is before the two young ladies; and so, fare- well to Chiswick Mall. ... ... bringing over to him Sir Pitt and his col- 92 V anity Fair – V olume One league for Queen’s Crawley, although Sir Pitt would have come over himself,...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...The War in the Air by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of t... ...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Documen... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...s book. It remains essentially right, a pam- phlet story—in support of the League to Enforce Peace. K. 4 The War in the Air THE WAR IN THE AIR CHAPTE... ... speak, when all London turned out to see a balloon go over, and now every little place in the country has its weekly-outings— uppings, rather. It’s b... ...Smallways was a green-grocer by trade and a gar- dener by disposition; his little wife Jessica saw to the shop, and Heaven had planned him for a peace... ... We left before the finish. We got disabled and unmanageable, and our col- leagues—consorts I mean—were too busy most of them to trouble about us, and...

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