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Around the World in 80 Days

By: Jules Verne

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The Research Magnificent

By: H. G. Wells

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

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Lord Ormont and His Aminta

By: George Meredith

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The New Machiavelli

By: H. G. Wells

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Tales and Fantasies

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

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Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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The Early Short Fiction

By: Edith Wharton

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The Reef

By: Edith Wharton

...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 Reef by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...d to come to her. She had brushed in this outline of her career with light rapid strokes, and in a tone of fatalism oddly untinged by bitterness. Darr... ...de Darrow long to fill her few free hours to the brim. She had the gift of rapid definition, and his questions as to the life she had led with the Far... ...ement. At the end of the next act she discovered with dismay that in their transit to the cafe she had lost the beautiful pictured programme he had bo... ...n?” When he rejoined Miss Viner, Darrow’s first care was to find out, by a rapid inspection of the house, whether Owen Leath’s seat had given him a vi... ... look at Owen, for fear of detecting the lad’s surprise at these senseless transitions. And through the confusion of his inward struggles and outward ... ...hings into a trunk and rushed—” “Mrs. Murrett?” “Why, yes. Sophy’s gone to India with Mrs. Murrett; they’re to meet at Brindisi,” Sophy’s sister said ...

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Beatrix

By: Honoré de Balzac

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...zac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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The Secret Places of the Heart

By: H. G. Wells

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Women in Love

By: D. H. Lawrence

... D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...rom the boat-house, a white figure ran out, frightening in its swift sharp transit, across the old landing- stage. It launched in a white arc through ... ...nikov, do let us go.’ ‘He’s only drunk one glass—only one glass,’ came the rapid, hushed voice of the young Russian. They all moved off to the door. T... ... small clasp. It was so utterly dark, and yet such a naked statement, that rapid vibrations ran through his blood and over his brain, he was no longer... ...ather obscene?’ he asked, disapproving. ‘I don’t know,’ murmured the other rapidly. ‘I have never defined the obscene. I think they are very good.’ Ge... ... 108 guard’s-van came up, and passed slowly, the guard staring out in his transition on the spectacle in the road. And, through the man in the closed... ...stasy of bliss in fore-knowledge that she knew. To him, the wonder of this transit was over- whelming. He was falling through a gulf of infinite dark-...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

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...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...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

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... Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to an obscure aspirant. To my Publishers, for the a...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Voulume Two

By: Alexandre Dumas

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...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

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Chance a Tale in Two Parts

By: Joseph Conrad

...ition. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania ... ...ce which crossed his naked, bony chest, and a pair of trousers. He blinked rapidly as if dazed by the faint light, while his patron, the old bandit, g... ...ase. He trotted out the sailor-brother in a pretty wide range of subjects: Indian and colonial affairs, matters of trade, talk of travels, of seaside ... ...ar legs in cycling stockings of little Fyne. He passed along the carriages rapidly towards the rear of the train, which presently pulled out and left ... ...erests than financial. I see you remember the crash ….” “I was away in the Indian Seas at the time,” I said. “But of course—” “Of course,” Marlow stru... ...eparably associated with the visual impression of Fyne. Where, why, how, a rapid striding rush could be brought in helpful relation to the good Fyne’s... ...ing her head and gazing wistfully across the street noisy with the endless transit of innumerable bargains, she said with intense gravity: “He has bee...

...Excerpt: I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintan...

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, ...

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