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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Excerpt: The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Seraphita by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

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Excerpt: The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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Excerpt: The Tragedy of Pudd?nhead Wilson by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Excerpt: The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. 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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Excerpt: The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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Excerpt: Septimius Felton; or, The Elixir of Life by Nathanial Hawthorne.

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