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A Christmas Carol [Secure eReader]
by Charles Dickens
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Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon 'Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as... more info>>
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A Princess of Mars [Secure eReader]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The first book Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote, A Princess of Mars, was originally published in the pulps in 1912 as Under the Moons of Mars. The Barsoom series is second only to the Tarzan series in fame. In this, the first book of the Barsoom series, John Carter describes his recent background as a clean-limbed fighting man of the Civil War. An attack by Indians in the American West drives John Carter to seek refuge in a mysterious cave which somehow aids in transporting him to Bar... more info>>
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A Story Between Two Notes [Secure eReader]
by Joseph Conrad
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And he answers her: "I believe you are the only one now alive who remembers me as a child. I have heard of you from time to time, but I wonder what sort of person you are now. Perhaps if I did know I wouldn't dare put pen to paper. But I don't know. I only remember that we were great chums. In fact, I chummed with you even more than with your brothers. But I am like the pigeon that went away in the fable of the Two Pigeons. If I once start to tell you I would want you to feel... more info>>
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A Woman of No Importance [Secure eReader]
by Oscar Wilde
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The Persons of the Play Lord Illingworth Sir John Pontefract Lord Alfred Rufford Mr. Kelvil, M.P. The Ven. Archdeacon Daubeny, D.D. Gerald Arbuthnot Farquhar, Butler Francis, Footman Lady Hunstanton Lady Caroline Pontefract Lady Stutfield Mrs. Allonby Miss Hester Worsley Alice, Maid Mrs. Arbuthnot The Scenes of the Play ACT I. The Terrace at Hunstanton Chase. ACT II. The Drawing-room at Hunstanton Chase. ACT III. The Hall at Hunstanton Chase. ACT IV. Sitting-room in Mrs.... more info>>
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Agnes Grey [Secure eReader]
by Anne Brontė
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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fic... more info>>
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Alice Adams [Secure eReader]
by Booth Tarkington
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Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction The patient, an old-fashioned man, thought the nurse made a mistake in keeping both of the windows open, and her sprightly disregard of his protests added something to his hatred of her. Every evening he told her that anybody with ordinary gumption ought to realize that night air was bad for the human frame. "The human frame won't stand everything, Miss Perry," he warned her, resentfully. "Even a child, if it had just ordinary gumption... more info>>
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American Notes [Secure eReader]
by Rudyard Kipling
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In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: "Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, 'the man who came from nowhere,' as he says himself, and who a year ago was consciously nothing in the literary world." Six months previous to this Mr. Kipling, then but twenty-four years old, had arrived in England from India to find that fame had preceded him.... more info>>
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Around the World in Eighty Days [Secure eReader]
by Jules Vernes
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Around the World in Eighty Days is one of Jules Verne's most beloved adventure tales. It is 1872, and the opening of the trans-India railway, along with other advances in steam transportation, make it possible to traverse the globe in only eighty days. Or so Mr. Phileas Fogg contends. Fogg, an English gentleman, wagers his entire fortune on being able to complete this journey in the time allotted, and departs that very night with his man-servant Passepartout. They are swiftly fo... more info>>
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At the Earth's Core [Secure eReader]
by Edgar Rice Burroughs
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The first book in the Pellucidar series, At the Earth's Core describes how David Innes, the son of a wealthy mine owner, and Perry, an inventor, travel in a "mechanical subterranean prospector" to a land in the center of the earth, peopled by savage half-naked men, savage half-naked women, and a multitude of inimical creatures. A typical Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure tale, At the Earth's Core is a pleasure to read. Pellucidar, the sequel, is also available from Peanut Press... more info>>
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Captivity and Restoration [Secure eReader]
by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
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The sovereignty and goodness of GOD, together with the faithfulness of his promises displayed, being a narrative of the captivity and restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, commended by her, to all that desires to know the Lord's doings to, and dealings with her. Especially to her dear children and relations. The second Addition [sic] Corrected and amended. Written by her own hand for her private use, and now made public at the earnest desire of some friends, and for the benefit of the... more info>>
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Charlotte Brontė's Notes on the Pseudonyms Used by Herself: and Her Sisters, Emily and Anne Brontė [Secure eReader]
by Charlotte Brontė
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It has been thought that all the works published under the names of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell were, in reality, the production of one person. This mistake I endeavoured to rectify by a few words of disclaimer prefixed to the third edition of Jane Eyre. These, too, it appears, failed to gain general credence, and now, on the occasion of a reprint of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, I am advised distinctly to state how the case really stands. Indeed, I feel myself that it is ... more info>>
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Clocks [Secure eReader]
by Jerome K. Jerome
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There are two kinds of clocks. There is the clock that is always wrong, and that knows it is wrong, and glories in it; and there is the clock that is always right -- except when you rely upon it, and then it is more wrong than you would think a clock could be in a civilized country. I remember a clock of this latter type, that we had in the house when I was a boy, routing us all up at three o'clock one winter's morning. We had finished breakfast at ten minutes to four, and I got t... more info>>
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Dark Lady of the Sonnets [Secure eReader]
by George Bernard Shaw
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I had better explain why, in this little piece d'occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespeare, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton, because when the case in Mary's favor (or against her, if you please to consider that the Dark Lady was no better than she ought to have been) was complete, a port... more info>>
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Dreams [Secure eReader]
by Jerome K. Jerome
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The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me. I was not surprised; indeed, my acquaintanceship with theater harpies would prevent my feeling any surprise at such a demand, even in my waking moments; but I was, I must honestly confess, considerably annoyed. It was not the payment of the cloak-room fee that I so much minded -- I offer... more info>>
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Emma McChesney & Co. [Secure eReader]
by Edna Ferber
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The door marked "MRS. MCCHESNEY" was closed. T. A. Buck, president of the Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company, coming gaily down the hall, stopped before it, dismayed, as one who, with a spicy bit of news at his tongue's end, is met with rebuff before the first syllable is voiced. That closed door meant: "Busy. Keep out." "She'll be reading a letter," T. A. Buck told himself grimly. Then he turned the knob and entered his partner's office. Mrs. Emma McChesney was reading a letter.... more info>>
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Evergreens [Secure eReader]
by Jerome K. Jerome
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They look so dull and dowdy in the spring weather, when the snow drops and the crocuses are putting on their dainty frocks of white and mauve and yellow, and the baby-buds from every branch are peeping with bright eyes out on the world, and stretching forth soft little leaves toward the coming gladness of their lives. They stand apart, so cold and hard amid the stirring hope and joy that are throbbing all around them. And in the deep full summer-time, when all the rest of nature do... more info>>
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Father Sergius [Secure eReader]
by Leo Tolstoy
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In Petersburg in the eighteen-forties a surprising event occurred. An officer of the Cuirassier Life Guards, a handsome prince who everyone predicted would become aide-de-camp to the Emperor Nicholas I and have a brilliant career, left the service, broke off his engagement to a beautiful maid of honour, a favourite of the Empress's, gave his small estate to his sister, and retired to a monastery to become a monk. This event appeared extraordinary and inexplicable to those who did no... more info>>
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Glinda of Oz [Secure eReader]
by L. Frank Baum
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Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, sat in the grand court of her palace, surrounded by her maids of honor -- a hundred of the most beautiful girls of the Fairyland of Oz. The palace court was built of rare marbles, exquisitely polished. Fountains tinkled musically here and there; the vast colonnade, open to the south, allowed the maidens, as they raised their heads from their embroideries, to gaze upon a vista of rose-hued fields and groves of trees bearing fruits or laden with sweet-... more info>>
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Good Indian [Secure eReader]
by B. M. Bower
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It was somewhere in the seventies when old Peaceful Hart woke to a realization that gold-hunting and lumbago do not take kindly to one another, and the fact that his pipe and dim-eyed meditation appealed to him more keenly than did his prospector's pick and shovel and pan seemed to imply that he was growing old. He was a silent man, by occupation and by nature, so he said nothing about it; but, like the wild things of prairie and wood, instinctively began preparing for the winter of ... more info>>
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Greenmantle [Secure eReader]
by John Buchan
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I had just finished breakfast and was filling my pipe when I got Bullivant's telegram. It was at Furling, the big country house in Hampshire where I had come to convalesce after Loos, and Sandy, who was in the same case, was hunting for the marmalade. I flung him the flimsy with the blue strip pasted down on it, and he whistled. 'Hullo, Dick, you've got the battalion. Or maybe it's a staff billet. You'll be a blighted brass-hat, coming it heavy over the hard-working regimental off... more info>>
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Henry Clay's Remarks Before the House and Senate: of the United States of America [Secure eReader]
by Anthony J. Adam
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Part 1--Henry Clay, "On the Expunging Resolutions," U.S. Senate,--16 January 1837 WHAT patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this Expunging resolution? What new honor or fresh laurels will it win for our common country? Is the power of the Senate so vast that it ought to be circumscribed, and that of the President so restricted that it ought to be extended? What power has the Senate? None, separately. It can only act jointly with the other House, or jointly with the Executiv... more info>>
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Hunting Sketches [Secure eReader]
by Anthony Trollope
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It seems to be odd, at first sight, that there should be any such men as these; but their name and number is legion. If we were to deduct from the hunting-crowd farmers, and others who hunt because hunting is brought to their door, of the remainder we should find that the "men who don't like it" have the preponderance. It is pretty much the same, I think, with all amusements. How many men go to balls, to races, to the theatre, how many women to concerts and races, simply because it i... more info>>
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In the Cage [Secure eReader]
by Henry James
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It had occurred to her early that in her position -- that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie -- she should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That made it an emotion the more lively -- though singularly rare and always, even then, with opportunity still very much smothered -- to see any one come in whom she knew outside, as she called it, any one who could add anything to the meanness of h... more info>>
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Life in the Iron-Mills [Secure eReader]
by Rebecca Harding Davis
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Is this the end? O Life, as futile, then, as frail! What hope of answer or redress?" A cloudy day: do you know what that is in a town of iron-works? The sky sank down before dawn, muddy, flat, immovable. The air is thick, clammy with the breath of crowded human beings. It stifles me. I open the window, and, looking out, can scarcely see through the rain the grocer's shop opposite, where a crowd of drunken Irishmen are puffing Lynchburg tobacco in their pipes. I can detect the scen... more info>>
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Little Britain [Secure eReader]
by Washington Irving
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What I write is most true...I have a whole booke of cases lying by me which if I should sette foorth, some grave auntients (within the hearing of Bow bell) would be out of charity with me. NASHE. IN the centre of the great city of London lies a small neighborhood, consisting of a cluster of narrow streets and courts, of very venerable and debilitated houses, which goes by the name of LITTLE BRITAIN. Christ Church School and St. Bartholomew's Hospital bound it on the west; Smithf... more info>>
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