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

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Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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...y, but either nine or eleven. She didn?t tell me to say she was glad to see you, because she doesn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don?t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate.? ...

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

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

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Excerpt: A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad.

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Excerpt: Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling.

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Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of s...

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