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...-1 808-10 0 0 0 0 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...s Publication War and Peace – Book Six by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... like him, seeking and vacillating, who had not yet found in Freemasonry a straight and comprehensible path, but hoped to do so. In the third category... ...g respect for our holy order and is too preoccupied and satisfied with the outer man to desire spiritual improvement, I had no cause to doubt him, but... ... taking my arm, led me to a building to enter which we had to pass along a narrow plank. I stepped on it, but it bent and gave way and I began to clam... ... countess looked round at her daughter. Natasha was lying looking steadily straight before her at one of the mahogany sphinxes carved on the corners o... ...you? And he’s very nice, very, very nice. Only not quite my taste—he is so narrow, like the dining-room clock…. Don’t you understand? Narrow, you know...

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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....... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898..................................................

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Excerpt: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

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...s ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Unive... ... Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... as if the whole world had gone crazy.” Prince Andrew looked Anna Pavlovna straight in the face with a sarcastic smile. “‘Dieu me la donne, gare a qui... ...udless, northern, summer night. Pierre took an open cab intending to drive straight home. But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the imp... ... English naval officer, that he would drink a bottle of rum sitting on the outer ledge of the third floor window with his legs hang- ing out. “Go on, ... ...ierre concluded, and followed Anna Mikhaylovna. She hurriedly ascended the narrow dimly lit stone staircase, calling to Pierre, who was lagging behind... ...n over there.” He pointed with a smile to a turreted nunnery, and his eyes narrowed and gleamed. “That would be fine, gentlemen!” The officers laughed...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrin...

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