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...Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Under the Deodars by R... ...ronic Classics Series Publication Under the Deodars by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...Boy, who was in the habit of riding all across Simla in the Rains, to call on Mrs. Hauksbee. That lady laughed. ‘For my sins, the Aide at Tyrconnel la... ... I didn’t laugh.’ ‘Lucy, I don’t believe you.’ ‘Ask Captain Sangar; he was on the other side. 6 Under the Deodars Well, as I was saying, The Mussuck ... ... about it. S-s- ss! That woman’s voice always reminds me of an Underground train coming into Earl’s Court with the brakes on. Now listen. It is really... ...th of these men on the long white line of the Narkarra Road. There were no strangers in Kashima, or they might have thought that captivity within the ... ...rly morning reach Kalka at twelve Umballa at seven down, straight by night train, to Bombay, and then the steamer of the 21st for Rome. That’s my idea... ...e and, in the end, he went away swearing to himself, quite like a man in a novel. He looked more objec- tionable than ever. I laughed. I love that wom...

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... OOK FIVE: 1 OOK FIVE: 1 OOK FIVE: 1806-0 806-0 806-0 806-0 806-07 7 7 7 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book F... ...c Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Docume... ...t supply them. Pierre was obliged to wait. Without undressing, he lay down on the leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big feet in their ov... ...eather sofa in front of a round table, put his big feet in their overboots on the table, and began to reflect. “Will you have the portmanteaus brought... ...n it turned uselessly in the same place. His servant handed him a half-cut novel, in the form of let- ters, by Madame de Souza. He began reading about... ...id of honor and her mother, and several other less noteworthy persons. The novelty Anna Pavlovna was setting before her guests that evening was Boris ... ... and troublesome to himself. In Kiev Pierre found some people he knew, and strangers hastened to make his acquaintance and joyfully welcomed the rich ... ...eror were an everyday matter to him. Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk batt...

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...is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his own productions ?except for the story God sees the Truth, but Waits, which seeks a place in the first class (religious art), and A Prisoner in the Caucasus, which belongs to the second (universal art).? In the first of these the subject (a favourite one with Tolstoy) is the forgiveness of injuries. The se...

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...Contents PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LIT...

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...Contents NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM ..........................................................4 LIGEIA ........................................................................................................169 MORELLA................................

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Li...

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...GREAT EXPECTATIONS by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by ... ...onic Classics Series Publication Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...Pip, and came to be called Pip. I give Pirrip as my father’ s family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister – Mrs. Joe Gargery, who mar... ... were unreasonably derived from their tombstones. The shape of the letters on my father’s, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, ... ...tle of port wine.” Every Christmas Day he presented himself, as a profound novelty, with exactly the same words, and carrying the two bottles like dum... ...at, don’t you? If you’re not tired, Mr. Pip – though I know it’s tiring to strangers – will you tip him one more? You can’t think how it pleases him.”... ...I could reach her within a minute or two. Then, I be- gan to go out as for training and practice: sometimes alone, sometimes with Herbert. I was often... ...tradiction and indeci- sion to which I suppose very few hurried people are strangers. Still, the reference to Provis by name, mastered everything. I r... ...h the rum-and-milk and biscuits, and were going out for the walk with that train- 415 Charles Dickens ing preparation on us, I was considerably surpr...