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...Upton Sinclair, born in 1878 was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author. He wrote over 90 books in many genres. Best known for his muckraking novel, /the-jungle-by-upton-sinclair/ The Jungle</a href>, Sinclair also wrote adventure fiction. Many of these works were written under the pseudonym, Ensign Clark Fitch, U.S.N. A Prison...

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...A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and others A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...ers A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others is a publication of the P... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Man of Business by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others, the Pennsylvania State U... ...s black dyed hair, playing with the tassels at his waist—” “ ’Tis a bit of genre for anybody who knows what the pretty little morning room, hung with ...

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...The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in London by The Bodley Head, and in Chicago by Stone & Kimball. (The Prologue and six of the stories had previously appeared in the National Observer, the jou...

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...EVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn S... ......................................................................... 205 BY MRS. SHELLEY. ............................................................. ......................................................... 220 ORIGINAL POETRY BY VICTOR AND CAZIRE ......................................................... ...n de l’existence d’un Dieu, que l’on dit neanmoins si necessaire a tout le genre humain? Mais trouvons-nous de l’harmonie entre les opinions theologiq... ...des etres intelligens; de ne chercher dans ses oeuvres que le bien-etre du genre humain: comment concilier ces vues et ces dispositions avec l’ignoran...

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...08 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magician by Somerset Maugham , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...ersity is an equal opportunity university. 3 Maugham The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A FRA A ... ...which that scene gave him. It might have been a picture by some master of genre. It seemed hardly by chance that the colours arranged them selves in...

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...Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography—and his massive volume Essais...

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...it les amis autistes 5.4.7. Ce qu'on devrait apprendre aux autistes au sujet de la sexualité et del'amour 5.4.8. La difficulté de s'identifier à un genre 5.4.9. Pourquoi l'autiste fait une excellente proie sexuelle 5.4.10. Autisme et couple 5.4.11. Le sentiment d’appartenance 5.5. Politesse neurotypique et politesse autiste 5.5.1. Plaidoyer pour l’enseignement de la...

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... are repositories of thought and culture and all have had palpable repercussions. Their enduring quality is manifested in repeated references to them by present-day Central Asians in their own historical, literary, and even political writings. Indeed, this use of Monuments provided an additional reason for undertaking this collection. In a time when Central Asia's importan...

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...The Central Asian authors have responded to the restrictions on history writing by reporting accurate history and relaying messages of the past in the guise of literature. The field of literature has its own strictures. Thus, Central Asians have tried to ensure that their output is both the real history ...

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...CENTRAL ASIAN MONUMENTS Edited by H. B. Paksoy ________________________________________ Table of Contents • H. B. Paksoy Introduction • H. B. Paksoy Sun Is Also Fire: Ibadinov's Kuyas Ham Alav • Peter B. Golden (Rutgers) Codex Comanicus • Richard...

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... central focus of the present work. The attacks and attempts to save the Alpamysh dastan may be divided into two "phases" -- the first is represented by the Central Asians' own efforts to record the dastan on paper and publish it widely in response to Russian occupation and ensuing Russification campaigns, Christian proselytization, "language reform," boundary revision and...

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...Another representative sample of this early phase of the "movement" is A Manual on the Turanians and PanTuranianism33 (published by the British Admiralty, during the First World War) a work based on Vambery's Turkenvolk34 and compiled by Sir Denison Ross.35 Even Alexander Kerensky, in Paris exile after the Bolshevik Revolution, was utilizing the same "...

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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements i Preface iii Chapter One ALPAMYSH and the Turkic Dastan Genre 1 Chapter Two Attempts to Destroy and Save Alpamysh, Phase I 18 Chapter Three The Alpamysh Dastan 50 Translation of Divay's 1901 Alpamysh 57 Commentary 98 Chapter Four Attempts to Destroy and Save Alpamysh, Phase II 120...

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...PASSOS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...sity is an equal opportunity university. 3 John Dos Passos THREE SOLDIERS BY JOHN DOS PASSOS 1921 1921 1921 1921 1921 “Les contemporains qui souffren... ...hisper to the other: “Qu’il a l’air interessant.” “Farouche, n’est-ce pas? Genre revolutionnaire,” answered the other cousin, tittering. Then he notic...

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..., tribal or confederation names, not ethnonyms. Those appellations were mistakenly or deliberately turned into "ethnic"or "political" classifications by early explorers or intelligence agents arriving in those lands ahead of the Russian armies and bureaucrats....

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...ral Asia were not the Shamanistic or Buddhist Turks. It was the Zoroastrian Persians.22 Within 100 years of the death of the Prophet Muhammad, i.e. by 750, the Muslim Arabs had expanded their political state far beyond the Arab lands. Consequently, the Muslim community of believers, umma, began to encompass ethnicities beyond the Arabs themselves. The first non-Arabs to ...

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...ESSAYS ON CENTRAL ASIA by H.B. Paksoy ________________________________________ TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Nationality or Religion? Views of Central Asian Islam [127Kb] AACAR Bulletin (of the Association for the Advancement of Central As...

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...Stagnate as a 'creepy caterpillar' or transform into a 'beauteous butterfly'-this path-breaking book of a rare genre suggests-is the seminal choice before mankind, and every one of us. In this setting, the book raises some fundamental questions: What is man's rightful place in the cosmos and his manifest destiny on earth? Why are we s...

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...gs are as they are. Whether we are simply the secular and stray descendants of a tiny cell of primordial protoplasm, or an arbitrary product guided by no objective value, or the special creation of an All-Wise and All-Merciful God and with a manifest mission that has somehow gone terribly awry, what the human presence has wrought on earth has come to a boil. We do not ...

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...THE WIFE and other stories by ANTON TCHEKHOV Translated by CONSTANCE GARNETT A Penn State Electronic C... ...n State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. ... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ... Ryabovsky, a very handsome, fair young man of five-and-twenty who painted genre pieces, animal stud- ies, and landscapes, was successful at exhibitio... ...ovsky was prepar- ing for the exhibition, something striking, a mixture of genre and landscape, in the style of Polyenov, about which every one who ha...

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...tury world literature. T.S.Eliot ,ArchbaldMacleish and Seshendra Sharma are trinity of world poetry and Poetics. His sense of dedication to the genre of art he chooses to express himself and the determination to reach the depths of subject he undertakes to explore place him in the galaxy of world poets / world intellectuals. Seshendra’seBooks :http://kinige.com/...

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...ainfully conscious of it. Every person in the house felt that there was so sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys....

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART ONE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLI... ...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part One by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part One by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...’d show her to Vronsky—a marvel, exquisite, in the strict Oriental style, “genre of the slave Rebecca, don’t you know.” He’d had a row, too, with Berk...

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...Humans have been killing animals for millennia and now scientists acknowledge that we are living in a mass extinction of life caused by humanity. Added to this is an animal holocaust in which increasing numbers of people endlessly demand animals to eat, wear, kill for sport, experiment on, and more. In almost anyone's definition this is a man-made disaster...

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...tain for animal rights on the streets. 4.10 Blogger 109 - use your creative writing skills for animals. 4.11 Philosopher 112 - philosophers do it by reasoning. 4.12 Paramotor Flyer 116 - look down on your opponents to see what they are up to. 4.13 Personal Activist 119 - includes the single most effective thing you can do for animals. 4.14 Author – Playwright 122 ...

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... that it was out of the question for the wedding to take place before Lent, just five weeks off, since not half the trousseau could possibly be ready by that time. But she could not but agree with Levin that to fix it for after Lent would be putting it off too late, as an old aunt of Prince Shtcherbatsky?s was seriously ill and might die, and then the mourning would delay ...

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...ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy Translated by Constance Garnett PART FIVE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...NN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Anna Karenina – Part Five by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Anna Karenina – Part Five by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ime which style of painting to select—religious, historical, realistic, or genre paint- ing—he set to work to paint. He appreciated all kinds, and cou...

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...word, oh poet/ the word as rocket to hit/ the hearts made of stone”. HereNow is such a rocket." Dr Patrick Lodge Ireand/ Walles When a writing by a non-English native author is of the caliber that is exceptional in its exquisite versatility, an editor faces a challenging task: To maintain the integrity of textual complexity while situating the mechanical aspects of ...

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...And thus the significance of any exercise aimed at improving our understanding of the involved issues cannot be overemphasized. Possibly in a new non-fiction genre, this thought-provoking work delves into this least explored aspect of the Islamic ethos. Besides dissecting the anatomy of Islam, steeped in the Quran it depicts the psyche of the Musalmans, shaped by the ...

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... destiny. As can be seen, he was an uncanny man manager and mob manipulator extraordinary. His exemplary personal courage in battle enabled him lead by example, and this single character of his played no mean a part in the battles his faithful fought to raise the standard of Islam in the nations of the world. Though he grew up in an environment of sentimentality, he imbib...