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Jane, Stewardess of the Air LinesWheeler Ruthe S. Jane, Stewardess of the Air Lines Chapter One Graduation Night Jane Cameron looked breathlessly around the room where seventeen senior nurses of the Good Samaritan hospital at University City sat primly awaiting their diplomas. It was graduation n...

Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Wilde Oscar Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. Women are made to be loved, not to be understood. It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. M...

Ma confessionTolstoy Leo, graf Ma confession PRÉFACELa vive admiration que l'on manifeste à Paris pour les ouvrages de Tolstoï, la sympathie avec laquelle on accueille chaque nouveau volume de ses œuvres, et l'intérêt qu'on porte à son individualité, m'ont donné l'idée de traduire ce petit volume...

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Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire WoodsFour in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods TOTHE CHIEF, COUNCILLORS ANDFELLOWS OF SHERWOODFORESTCHAPTER I INTRODUCES NELSON TILFORD, AND WITNESSES HIS ARRIVAL AT CAMP CHICORA “That’s Chicora over there...

Talbot's AnglesAmy E. Blanchard Talbot's Angles CHAPTER I THE END OF A DAY The sun was very low in the west and the evening colors were staining the creek whose quiet waters ran between flat lands to be carried out to the river further on, which, in its turn, found the broader bay. The arms of on...

The Garden of DreamsMadison J. Cawein The Garden of Dreams TO My Brothers Not while I live may I forgetThat garden which my spirit trod!Where dreams were flowers, wild and wet,And beautiful as God. Not while I breathe, awake adream,Shall live again for me those hours,When, in its mystery and glea...

Die HarzreiseHeinrich Heine Die Harzreise Schwarze Röcke, seidne Strümpfe,Weiße höfliche Manschetten,Sanfte Reden, Embrassieren –Ach, wenn sie nur Herzen hätten! Herzen in der Brust, und Liebe,Warme Liebe in dem Herzen –Ach, mich tötet ihr GesingeVon erlognen Liebesschmerzen. Auf die Berge will i...

Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison LifeOscar Wilde Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life PUBLISHERS' NOTEThe circumstance which called forth this letter is a woeful one for Christian England. Martin, the Reading warder, is found guilty of feeding the hungry, nursing ...

Cobwebs from a Library CornerBangs John Kendrick Cobwebs from a Library Corner TOSISTER ANNEBOOKISH A PESSIMISTIC VIEW A little bit of Thackeray,A little bit of Scott,A modicum of Dickens justTo tangle up the plot,A paraphrase of Marryat,Another from Dumas —You ask me for a novel, sir,And I say, ...