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Sunshine JaneWarner Anne Sunshine Jane CHAPTER I GENERAL IGNORANCE THERE was something pathetic in the serene unconsciousness of the little village as the stage came lumbering down the hillside, bearing its freight of portent. So many things were going to be changed forever after, – and no one kn...

Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective StoriesThomas W. Hanshew Cleek of Scotland Yard: Detective Stories PROLOGUE The Affair of the Man Who Vanished Mr. Maverick Narkom, Superintendent at Scotland Yard, flung aside the paper he was reading and wheeled round in his revolving desk-chair, all alert on t...

Ovington's BankWeyman Stanley John Ovington's Bank CHAPTER I It was market day at Aldersbury, the old county town of Aldshire, and the busiest hour of the day. The clock of St. Juliana's was on the point of striking three, and the streets below it were thronged. The gentry, indeed, were beginning...

La Pensée de l'HumanitéTolstoy Leo, graf La Pensée de l'Humanité / Dernière oeuvre de L. Tolstoï PRÉFACE DU TRADUCTEURL'ouvrage de Léon Tolstoï, dont nous présentons ici au lecteur européen la première traduction française, a une double portée. Il résume les pensées exprimées par les sages univer...

KatiaLeo Tolstoy Katia CHAPTER I WE were in mourning for our mother, who had died the preceding autumn, and we had spent all the winter alone in the country – Macha, Sonia and I.Macha was an old family friend, who had been our governess and had brought us all up, and my memories of her, like my l...

Arme LeuteFyodor Dostoyevsky Arme Leute VorbemerkungDer Band bringt die ersten Dichtungen Dostojewskis: den Briefroman der »Armen Leute« und die Petersburger Geschichte, wie Dostojewski sie ausdrücklich nannte, vom »Doppelgänger«. Die eine ist in der Reihenfolge der Werke Dostojewskis mit dem Jah...

Fathers and SonsIvan Sergeevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons INTRODUCTION In this masterly unromantic novel, Turgenev drew a character, Bazarov, who served to express what he taught us to call Nihilism, and made a movement into a man. In Russia itself the effect of the story was astonishing. The por...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Volume 1 of 2Charles Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1(of 2) CHAPTER I THE PICKWICKIANS The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the earlier history of the p...

Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There'Carleton B. Case Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There' THE MAN WHO “CAME BACK” ONE of the strangest of the many personal romances which the war has brought is the tale of a man w...

The Mantle, and Other StoriesGogol Nikolai Vasilevich The Mantle, and Other Stories PREFACE As a novel-writer and a dramatist, Gogol appears to me to deserve a minute study, and if the knowledge of Russian were more widely spread, he could not fail to obtain in Europe a reputation equal to that o...