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The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas

...lexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...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 Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...had not less influence upon his Eminence than the others. Of the important cities given up by Henry IV to the Hu- guenots as places of safety, there o... ...e, which had derived a new importance from the ruin of the other Calvinist cities, was, then, the focus of dissensions and ambition. Moreover, its por... ...At ten o’clock in the evening, it is well known, the streets in provincial towns are very little frequented. Athos nevertheless was visibly anxious to...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...ia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pu... ...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...on, in any way. A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-129... ...se to belong to private parties, instead of gracing and dignifying herself with the honor of possessing and pro- tecting it. Frankfort is one of the s... ...nd in order to commemorate the epi- sode, Charlemagne commanded a city to be built there, which he named Frankfort—the ford of the Franks. None of the... ...is no matter—the older the woman the stronger she is, ap- parently. On the farm a woman’s duties are not defined—she does a little of everything; but ... ...The view, look- ing sheer down into the broad valley, eastward, from this great elevation—almost a perpendicular mile—was very quaint and curious. Cou...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge 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 Sta... ...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... ...tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...r valleys about the warm, temper- ate zone of the earth there were already towns and temples, a score of thousand years ago. They flourished unrecorde... ... kind of clairvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its high roads and the inns beside them, its... ...airvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its high roads and the inns beside them, its gar- dens ... ...ut of the crowding tragedies of that year of disas- ter, away from burning cities and starving multitudes, brac- ing and tranquillising and hidden, it...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

...es Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...sylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge 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 Sta... ...ge 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... ... Classics Series , Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ... and all that time, there was peace in Britain. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised, travelled, and learnt a grea... ...ken and unguarded wall of Severus, in swarms. They plundered the rich est towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and mor... ...heir vassals, the people; to respect the liberties of London and all other cities and boroughs; to protect foreign merchants who came to England; to i... ...lds were sent to proclaim with bra zen trumpets through all the principal cities of Europe, that, on a certain day, the Kings of France and England, ...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

...Contents CHAPTER I ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS......................................................... 7 CHAPTER II ANCIENT ENGLAND UNDER THE EARLY SAXONS .................................. 18 CHAPTER III ENGLAND UNDER THE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED..................

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Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... by Robert Louis Stevenson Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis St... ...ith a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...is Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kin... ...ent file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or ... ...file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her ... ...Pennsylvania State Univer- sity, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced a... ...old upon the hillside and set the air shak- ing in the leafy glens. I have heard people passing by night in sleeping cities; some of them sang; one, I... ...urs and drums, and the singing of old French psalms, their bands sometimes affronted daylight, marched before walled cities, and dispersed the general... ...e still recall the days of the great persecution, and the graves of local martyrs are still piously regarded. But in towns and among the so-called bet...

...Excerpt: The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world -- all, too, travelers with a donkey: and the best that we f...

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The Two Brothers Tranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

By: Honoré de Balzac

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Sons of the Soil

By: Honoré de Balzac

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

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The Village Rector

By: Honoré de Balzac

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North America Volume One

By: Anthony Trollope

...thony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...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... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ...ssion of ports and sea-board; had they held in their hands vast commercial cities and great agricultural districts; had they owned ships and been mast... ...n he can do at Boston. I confess that in this respect I think that but few towns are at present more fortunately circum- stanced than the capital of t... ... capital of the Bay State, as Massachu- setts is called, and that very few towns make a better use of their advantages. Boston has a right to be proud... ...cowardly, and were afraid to send our own regiments through one of our own cities.” This alluded to a demand that had been made on the Government that...

...?RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: MAINE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, AND VERMONT ............................................................................ 34 CHAPTER IV: LOWER CANADA ...............................................................................................................

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

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............................................................................................................................ 27 Chapter 1.2.II. Petition in Hieroglyphs. ...................................................................................................................... 30 Chapter 1.2.III. Questionable. ...........................................................

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An Englishman Looks at the World Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks Upon Contemporary Matters

By: H. G. Wells

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzi...

...................110 THE PHILOSOPHER?S PUBLIC LIBRARY............................................................................ 126 ABOUT CHESTERTON AND BELLOC.................................................................................... 129 ABOUT SIR THOMAS MORE ................................................................................................... 135 ...

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The Enormous Room

By: E. E. Cummings

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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A Woman of Thirty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...len Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...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... ... charge 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 Sta... ...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. A Woman of Thirty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, t... ...c Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...e Forest of Fontainebleau, and marked out as to its southern limits by the towns of Moret, Montereau, and Nemours. It is a dreary country; little knol... ...ed to account for them and the peasants and dwellers in the little country towns thought no more of the invalid lady. 68 A Woman of Thirty So the Mar... ...egoism masquerading as affection, which double the agony of death in great cities. She was twenty-six years old. At that age, with plenty of romantic ...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...ohn Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...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... ...tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication p... ..., unfold- ing scenes of soldiers in spiked helmets marching into Bel- gian cities full of little milk carts drawn by dogs and old women in peasant cos... ...in the training camp and watched the jolly soldiers in khaki marching into towns, pursuing terrified Huns across po- tato fields, saving Belgian mil... ... and goats’ beards and deep-set eyes, little squat figures of warriors and townsmen in square hats with swords between their bent knees, naked limbs t... ...de … . If there weren’t so many old people … . All the boys go away to the cities … . I hate old people; they’re so dirty and slow. We mustn’t waste o...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

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...on. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its threads with a more continuous attention than anyone else can have given them dur...

...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 Governmen...

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