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...O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author XXII. About "After the Rain" A Abdication Crisis The love affair of... ...ine). Why such a diversion? Scholars suggest that Ur is actually Urfa in Turkey - about 30 kilometers away from Harran. It boasts a cave where Ab... ...s of antiquity, bar Athens (which only came into existence in the Neolithic period, about 3000 years later). Arab geographers propagated the sto... ... Fleming, Ian Ian Lancaster Fleming (1908-1964), the author of the James Bond 007 novels, was the grandson of a Scottish banker and the son of a C... ..., translated to 11 languages and with total sales of 18 million copies. James Bond novels are now being authored by a new generation of writers. ... ...itle as one of his favorite books. Many movie plots were loosely based on Fleming's novels and have grossed, in total, more than $1 billion. The 007... ...nishment altogether. Guillotine-like implements were used on delinquents from the nobility in Germany, Italy, Scotland and Persia long before the ...

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...ropped to her ruined knees. “Messieurs Dupin and Richard will not be happy about this.” “You could ride Pierrot,” suggested my cousin Francois, the ... ... assent and went to take care of the horse. “As for the rest of you, go on about your business.” I looked at the watch pinned to my blouse and rea... ... care for Cesare as usual. O.G.” I put the note in my skirt pocket and went about my usual routine with Cesare. I leaned against his warm flank as ... ...is company. He bowed over my gloved hand with a grace that would have made nobility look crass, and pressed his lips to my knuckles. He straighten... ..., which made paging through the books very convenient. I chose a couple of novels and a small volume of poems and paid for my selection. My purchas...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, th...

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...D by Willis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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... THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de fo... ...ess in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.” LON TINKLE in t... ... Library of Congress Catalog Card Number, which is 2006030830. ABOUT AUTOGRAPH EDITIONS Autograph Editions is committed to bringing rea... ...AL LINCOLN’S JOURNAL BOOKS BY PAUL ALEXANDER BARTLETT NOVELS VOICES FROM THE PAST: Sappho’s Journal ` Christ’s Journal ` Leon... .... -- 1st ed. p. cm. Summary: "A collection of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesb... ...NCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625 xiii PREFACE Steven Jame... ...death I praised you childishly. This is springtime, and I see no signs of nobility. Tired with all these, for restful death I cry— how like a p...

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... result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an orange by looking at it through a microscope? The answer is;... ...ope? The answer is; very little. But if you plant an orange seed and wonder about it. If you care for the seedling, and study its growth closely a... ...ut it. If you care for the seedling, and study its growth closely and wonder about it. If you watch it grow into a tree and wonder about it. If yo... ...sh Religion Pg 1767 Flies on the Wall Pg 1768 Ritual Sacrifice and Mystery Novels Pg 1774 The Undead and Dreams Pg 1775 The Undead, Astral Tra... ...meaning of the name Chernobyl comes from the Russians cherishing the supposed nobility of the atom, and cherishing their own Russian nobility. The e... ...the Russians had not fallen in love with their fucking Czar and their corrupt nobility; who taxed, killed, brutalized and degraded them for 1,000 fuc... ...ed huge, time-wasting enormous earthen mounds for their dead tribal kings and nobility. Just so their dead kings could get and preserve some kind o... ... You can see the modern equivalent of exclusive love in Harlequin Romance novels. Where the heroine falls in love only with the most handsome, ... ...ivilization on Humans 809 Do you ever see any heroines in these novels falling in Romantic Affairs with a male who is not perfect, who...

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...art -- The ghost of Capt. Kidd -- The screaming woman of Marblehead -- Stories about spectral crews -- A ghostly company that come up out of the sea o... ...heir Independence maintained by constant war with Montezuma -- Wonderful walls about their capital city -- A bloody battle with the Tlascalans -- Six ... ...- Suspicious death of Cortez's wife -- The white wings of peace -- Cortez sets about new conquests -- Fatal rebellion of Olid -- Cortes leads a land m... ... inspirational and mind-invigorating, that kills the miasmatic influence which novels exhale, and which gives nourishment to laudable ambition towards... ... sailor of the olden time was a curiosity. All remember him as depicted in the novels and romances of Dana and Marryatt and others; his bronzed visage... ...alty to their religion severely provoked Cortez, who, unable to appreciate the nobility of these sentiments, attributed their inclination to an obstin... ...he great temple, and had cut down nearly, six hundred of the flower of Mexican nobility. The indignation of Cortez, upon receipt of this information, ... ...dful hand-to-hand battle now took place. Two Mexicans, who were members of the nobility, anxious to destroy Cortez, even at the sacrifice of their own...

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...ht that in making my appearance before the public I should at once acquaint them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:--...

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... them with my titles and name. My card, as I leave it at the houses of the nobility, my friends, is as follows:— MAJOR GOLIAH O’GRADY GAHAGAN, H.E.I.C... ...: my brother madly claimed it; we fought, and the consequence was, that in about three min- utes he received a slash in the right side (cut 6), which ... ...b’s table at tiffin. I can’t conceive what mad- ness prompted him to fight about such a paltry bauble; he had much better have yielded it at once, whe... ... sit. The same madness fell on every man in the ship. The two mates fought about her at the Cape; the surgeon, a sober pi- ous Scotchman, from disappo... ...ial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwrecks, mutinies, engag...

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...to the public slowly, of course, at first, but afterwards with such accumulating popularity as to encourage the author to a second attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simple narrative on which Guy Mannering was originally founded; but to which, in the progress ...

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...ing popularity as to encourage the author to a sec- ond attempt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were com... ...mpt. He looked about for a name and a subject; and the manner in which the novels were composed cannot be better illustrated than by reciting the simp... ...y influence, in an important manner, the future prospects of the child now about to come into this busy and changeful world. I will not conceal from y... ...nt, which threatens to subject him to an unhallowed and unhappy temptation about the time 5 Sir Walter Scott when he shall attain the age of twenty-o... ...n is also applicable to one or two similar passages, in this and the other novels, introduced for the same rea- son.] But the truth is undeniable; the... ...?” “Professional! professional!—another forfeit,” exclaimed the tumultuary nobility. “Had not our royal predecessors,” continued the monarch, exalting... ... use of swords and pistols, and such honourable arms, were reserved by the nobility and gentry to themselves, and the disputes of the vulgar were deci...

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...o 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 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 frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and pr...

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...nd New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of... ... La Plata comes next in space, and prob ably in habitable capacity, having about eight ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, with abou... ...pter 1 The River and Its History THE M ISSISSIPPI IS WELL WORTH READING ABOUT. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways ... ...and ‘shook’ him as he phrased it. After his mother shook him, members of the nobility with whom he was acquainted used their influence to get him the ... ...s a penny to bless themselves withal. Such are the actual facts; and not all novels have for a base so telling a situation. Chapter 50 The Original J... ...fellows; making them sorrowfully feel how callow they were, how recent their nobility, and how humble their degree, by talking largely and vaporously ... .... T o get a first class stateroom, you’d got to prove sixteen quarterings of nobility and four hundred years of descent, or be personally acquainted w...

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...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five wo...

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...“Sans genie, je suis flambe!” VOLUMES, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or f... ...cterize him, I think, better than at least some of the volumes I have read about him, and supply, when they are properly understood, the most valuable... ...le because of the way in which the word “genius” is too commonly ban- died about. As a matter of fact, there is not so very much genius in the world; ... ...ause the pirates could not inter- fere with its profits) of any one of his novels. And to expen- sive fashions of composition and complicated accounts... ...n, in reviewing La T ouche’s Fragoletta, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and “ungraspable” looseness of construction and st... ...d more faith- ful in his study of meanness and vice than in his studies of nobility and virtue, the blame is due at least as much to his models as to ...

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...tion of a friend and to interest a number of friends with whom I was associated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet we reckoned ourselves people of the educated class and some of us talk and lecture and write with considerable confidence....

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...ated. We were all, we found, extremely uncertain in our outlook upon life, about our religious feelings and in our ideas of right and wrong. And yet w... ...be difficult to caricature one of those meetings; the lecturer floundering about with an air of exquisite illumination, the audience attentive with an... ...this book arose, I found it necessary to consider and state certain truths about the nature of knowledge, about the meaning of truth and the value of ... ...tors and actor managers are accus- tomed to impose upon essentially tragic novels and plays … You see how I stand in this matter, puzzled and confused... ...eveloped in the Japanese. These Samu- rai of mine were a sort of voluntary nobility who supplied the administrative and organizing forces that held my... ...cisely—provided he follows the Rule.” “I have heard the phrase, ‘voluntary nobility.’” “That was the idea of our Founders. They made a noble and privi... ... in him the sense of broad issues. Others again seem able to refresh their nobility of out- look in the atmosphere of an intense personal love. Some o...

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...Excerpt: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here stood the turnstile to which the street owed its na...

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...T-SAINT-JEAN, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gar- dens of the Paris... ...or, to preserve the ground-floor from damp, the arches of the cellars rose about two feet above the soil, and the house was entered up three outside s... ...e a female head and some time-eaten arabesques. Three windows, their sills about five feet from the ground, belonged to a small set of rooms looking o... ...er up her coffee, nicely sweetened with white sugar. And she loves reading novels, poor dear soul! Well, and I would rather see her wearing out her ey... .... I have prepared the way. “Our friends will wonder to see a family of old nobility allying itself to the Bontems; old Bontems was a red repub- lican ...

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...d freedom from excitement of every kind, and the fat lands of Bessin seemed to offer all these conditions of recovery. To Bayeux, a picturesque place about six miles from the sea, the patient therefore betook himself, and was received with the cordiality characteristic of relatives who lead very retired lives, and regard a new arrival as a godsend....

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...o offer all these conditions of recovery. To Bayeux, a pictur- esque place about six miles from the sea, the patient there- fore betook himself, and w... ... the France of an older day. First of all comes the family whose claims to nobility are regarded as incontestable, and of the highest antiquity in the... ...nce, the genius loci incarnate. There is something frigid and monu- mental about these ladies; they know exactly when to laugh and when to shake their... ...ention that Gaston had an elder brother; nor did Gaston himself say a word about him. But, at the same time, it is true that the brother was consumpti... ...e Alps, an Italian (to re- sume) made the following comment on some French novels which she had been reading. “I cannot see,” she remarked, “why these...

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...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, and down, along the vast perspective of the river, to the Louvre. There...

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...MALADY OF THE AGE ON A FINE EVENING in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from whic... ...by writing a book; but he learned, to his cost, to regard talent as he did nobility. Hav- ing tried the law, the notariat, and literature, without dis... ...istin- guishing himself in any way, his mind now turned to the magistracy. About this time his father died. His mother, who contented herself in her o... ...uses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he was about to fall back into the fatal irresolution of persons without will, whe... ...a romance in the rue Chanoinesse came to him. “She certainly has an air of nobility! Can she be concerned in some bank?” thought he. In our day nine h... ...society was com- posed of seven or eight families belonging to the highest nobility in France: d’Esgrignon, T roisville, Casteran, Nouatre, etc. At th... ...ncy, monsieur, my dear old father invents wonderful stories when I have no novels to read; he often puts me to sleep in that way. His voice lulls me, ...

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...a very definite purpose. It struck him at once that she was waiting for some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of interest: it was characteristic of her that she always roused speculation, that her simplest acts seemed the result of far-reaching intentions....

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...e one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bart, yet he could never see her without a faint movement of int... ...house is closed, and I don’t know a soul in town.” She glanced plaintively about the station. “It IS hotter than Mrs. V an Osburgh’s, after all. If yo... ...ed by art?—and the thick planting of her straight black lashes. Everything about her was at once vigorous and exquisite, at once strong and fine. He h... ... the fire, a vase of carnations filling the air with perfume, and the last novels and magazines lying uncut on a table beside the reading-lamp, she ha... ...as something to be done before she left the house: to be done with all the nobility she knew how to put into such gestures. She advanced to the group ... ...elf no more than some superfine hu- man merchandise. “I believe it does in novels; but I’m certain it don’t in real life. You know that as well as I d...

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...o promptly the one measure of the worth of a given subject, the ques- tion about it that, rightly answered, disposes of all oth- ers—is it valid, in a... ... his “moral” reference. All this is a long way round, however, for my word about my dim first move toward “The Portrait,” which was ex- actly my grasp... ...is it open to their destiny to be, at the most, that we should make an ado about it? The novel is of its very nature an “ado,” an ado about something,... ...rary, and in the way of printed volumes contained nothing but half a dozen novels in paper on a shelf in the apartment of one of the Miss Varians. Pra... ... don’t believe they’re very nice to girls; they’re not nice to them in the novels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the... ...ovels.” “I don’t know about the novels,” said Mr. Touchett. “I believe the novels have a great deal but I don’t suppose they’re very accurate. We once... ... and shall count on you for a few. The Interviewer wants some light on the nobility. My first impressions (of the people at large) are not rose-colour... ...just the place for me!” Miss Stackpole cried. “I must get a glimpse of the nobility.” “I can’t take you,” said Isabel; “but Lord Warburton’s coming he... ...ely made the matter better that there were other members of the Florentine nobility who never had been there at all. She went whenever she could; that...

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...o that no one without could watch him at his work. When Eve began to speak about the future, he looked un- easily at her, and cut her short at the fir... ...me, and David rec- ognized the man’s face at a review just as his time was about to expire. Kolb came to see David, and was smitten forth- with by the... ...ices; but the most part of the time he had nothing to do, and used to read novels in his den at the back of the workshop while he waited for an order ... ...manac of Liege, a ream (five hundred sheets) costing in the first instance about four francs; while the printed sheets sell at the rate of a halfpenny... ... who set up for a rival. Francis du Hautoy, living in the inmost circle of nobility in Angouleme, went so far as to think of marrying Francoise to old...

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... trumpet, he had leisure to take a glance at the exterior of the fortress. About thirty yards within the gateway rose a square tower, lofty enough to ... ...of those gray battlements; many a flight of arrows, too, had hit all round about the embrasures above, or the apertures below, where the helmet of a d... ...since my grandfather’s time, and old Stella, who goes sweeping and dusting about the chambers, and Girolamo, the cook, who has but an idle life of it.... ..., books, chiefly little volumes of a religious Character, and a few French novels; toys, tinware, old iron, cloth, rosaries of beads, crucifixes, cake... ...hold ties connecting them with wife and daughter. And here was an indolent nobility, with no high aims or opportunities, but cultivating a vicious way... ...nd counterfeit sugar plums. The populace look on with staid composure; the nobility and priesthood take little or no part in the matter; and, but for ...

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...round. ‘Now, sir, begging your pardon; we met last market day on this road about this time, and I zaid “Good night,” and you made reply “Good night, S... ...my eyes, and isn’t there?’ said Durbeyfield. ‘And here have I been knocking about, year after year, from pillar to post, as if I was no more than the c... ...more than the commonest feller in the parish....And how long hev this news about me been knowed, Pa’son Tringham?’ The clergyman explained that, as fa... ...n’t you warn me? Ladies know what to fend hands against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance o’ learni... .... The moment happened to be one at which her father’s sense of the antique nobility of his family was highest, and his sensitiveness to the smudge whi... ... highest, and his sensitiveness to the smudge which Tess had set upon that nobility most pronounced, for he had just returned from his weekly booze at... ...; and then, awakening from her reverie, flung it and all the crowd of floral nobility impatiently on the ground, in an ebullition of displeasure with he...

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... John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE I: ABOUT THIS TRANSLATION It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned... ...instructive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, appar- ently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course was only the First ... ...act that it has less spirit, less of what we generally understand by “go,” about it than the first, which would be only natural if the first were the ... ...s” as he afterwards called them, with a view to making a book of them. The novels were published in the summer of 1613, with a dedi- cation to the Con... ...ook completed that time twelvemonth. But more than poems, or pastorals, or novels, it was his dra- matic ambition that engrossed his thoughts. The sam... ...ntes was essentially sanguine. The portrait he draws in the preface to the novels, with the aquiline features, chestnut hair, smooth untroubled forehe... ...it would make no difference, because I being the king can easily give thee nobility without purchase or service ren- dered by thee, for when I make th... ...olk by birth, and even 216 Don Quixote by position; though the wealth and nobility they thought most of was having me for their daughter; and as they... ...them into effect by force. I am your vassal, but I am not your slave; your nobility neither has nor should have any right to dishonour or degrade my h...

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...n the world’s great storm of theyear 1914. AUTHOR’S NOTE OF THE THREE LONG NOVELS of mine which suffered an interruption, “The Rescue” was the one tha... ... twenty years. I laid it aside at the end of the summer of 1898 and it was about the end of the summer of 1918 that I took it up again with the firm d... ...hal age of 1000 numbers could not be kept wait- ing. Then “Lord Jim,” with about seventeen pages already written at odd times, put in his claim which ... ...tering shallows of the coast, lonely but not forbidding. There was nothing about it of a grim derelict. It had an air of expectant life. One after an-... ...st likely float at the next spring tides; d’Alcacer, a person of undoubted nobility though of inferior principles, was better than no company, in so f...