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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Little Tour in France by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State ... ...is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in be... ...ateaux, terraces with gray balustrades, moss-grown walls draped in scarlet Virginia-creeper. You turn into the town again beside a great military barr... ...he sun, and has that aspect of cheerful leisure which belongs to all white towns that reflect, them- selves in shining waters. It is the water-front o... ...mboise either from Blois or from Tours; it is about half-way between these towns. The great point is to go, especially if you have put it off repeated... ...gateway that is still impos- ing, and in which a clambering vine and a red Virginia- creeper were suspended to the rusty walls of brick stone. The mos... ...ple of very ancient towers, brownish-yellow in hue, and mantled in scarlet Virginia-creeper. One of these towers, reputed to be of Saracenic origin, i...

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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: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...Prologue: [Anselmo and Luigi] ANSELMO. What think you,--lies there any truth in the tale The King will wed again? LUIGI. Why not, Anselmo? A king is no less lonely than a collier When his wife dies, And his young daughter there, For all her being a princess, is no less A motherless child, and cries he...

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...The Lamp and the Bell A Drama In Five Acts By Edna St. Vincent Millay Written on the occasion of the Fift... ...ATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama in Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a publication of the Pennsyl- va... ...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... ... Nurse to Beatrice and Bianca Giulietta, servant to Bianca Virginia Archibold ’17 “Little Snow-White” ... ... fruits and flowers exposed for sale in little stalls and wagons, crowd of townspeople moving about, talking, laughing, buying. Group of children play... ...NGER. Ay, Majesty. [Beatrice stands very still a moment, then turns to the towns- people.] BEA BEA BEA BEA BEA. [Earnestly and rapidly,] You people, d... ...! Lead me away. [The two guards lead out the Queen. Nobody else moves. The townspeople cower and stare. The two little pages that bore her train as sh...

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...Preface: In writing this ponderous tome, the author?s desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals in such a form and style that the young may make acquaintance with them of their own accord. ...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, es...

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...e BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publi... ...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. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Well... ...retain the residuum. They remained essentially sovereign states. New York, Virginia, Massachusetts, for example, remained legally independent. The pra... ...Peru, Brazil are all of them also in America. Or else we have to call them Virginians, Californians, New Englanders, and so forth. Their legal and nom... ...n a posi- tion to commence day and night continuous attacks upon the Rhine towns. Not hour-long raids such as London knows, but week-long raids. Then ... ...sketched out in this war. We shall get big land ironclads which will smash towns. We shall get air offensives—let the experi- enced London reader thin... ...oing on hour after hour, day after day—that will really burn out and wreck towns, that will drive people mad by the thousand. We shall get a very comp...

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...Excerpt: That homely proverb, used on so many occasions in England, viz. ?That what is bred in the bone will not go out of the flesh,? was never more verified than in the story of my Life. Any one would think that after thirty-five years? affliction, and a variety of unhappy circu...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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...Excerpt: One confidential evening, not three months ago, Lionel Wallace told me this story of the Door in the Wall. And at the time I thought that so far as he was concerned it was a true story. He told it me with such a direct simplicity of conviction that I could not do otherwise than believe in him. But in the morning, in m...

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... H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Door in the Wall and other stories by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Door in the Wall and other stories by H. G. Wells, the Penn... ...breath of hot wind blew now with its rising and gathering strength, and in Virginia, and Brazil, and down the St. Lawrence val- ley, it shone intermit... ...s strength, showed with pitiless brilliance the wide and populous country; towns and villages with their pagodas and trees, roads, wide cultivated fie... ...y, day by day, from great Bogota to the still vaster world beyond, through towns and villages, forest and desert places, the rush- ing river day by da...