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...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline 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 odyss...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a sin... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ... Bartlett’s writing has been praised by many leading authors, reviewers, and critics, among them: JAMES MICHENER, novelist: “I am much taken wit... ...and drawings have been exhibited in more than 40 one-man shows in leading museums in the U.S. and Mexico. Archives of his work and literary correspo... ...at sea, her mast broken, her tangled sail and rigging dragging. Will the war never end? P Fog, as grey as a shepherd’s cloak, ruffled the bay for ... ...aring around me like the recent storm. I couldn’t speak. I felt that the war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lin... ...e duped. The central group in my Anghiari mural is the struggle for a military flag: I painted life-size horses, life-size men, life-size hatred... ...ndred or more guests: Cardinal Mercier, De Brosse, Ambassador to Holland, military, priests, courtiers, beautiful women. I sat opposite Francis and ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant ...

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...NIC CONVERSATION.................................................................................................................... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE .........................................................................................

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...n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of ... ... sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...ble cause—the modern Achilles, who gained so many victories in the Florida War?” “I bear that name,” said the Major, “and those titles, trusting at ... ...situation is new in romance. I feel sure it has not been attempted before. Military celebrities have been disguised and set at lowly occupations for d... ...e. By the above compari son between his age and Ambulinia’s, we guess the war worn veteran to be twenty two; and the other facts stand thus: he had g... ...ifferences to the learned for settlement; he had achieved a vast fame as a military chieftain, the Achilles of the Florida campaigns, and then had got... ...a treasure and the most perfect thing of its kind that the storehouses and museums of literature could show. He did not dare to say no to the dread po...

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...to relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest possible. I have already b...

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...t stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to... ... contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest possible. I have al ready betrayed, as an accepted habit, and ... ...erson who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and in terpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in e... ...ries have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this... ...der their objects practically filial, just as an English husband who in his military years had “run” everything in his regiment could make econ omy bl... ...te—a beautiful personal presence, that of a prince in very truth, a ruler, war rior, patron, lighting up brave architecture and diffusing the sense o... .... Assingham, though finally quite without illusions, as she said, about the military character, was always mistress of a spell to old soldiers; and as ... ... the bondage of ugliness he was in a position to measure—in this museum of museums, a palace of art which was to show for compact as a Greek temple wa... ...h snuff taking ironies as might belong to rococo chamberlains moving among china lap dogs. Every evening after dinner Charlotte Stant played to him; s...