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Oliver Twist. Volume 3 of 3CHAPTER XXXVII. CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEWCHAPTER XXXVIII. INTRODUCES SOME RESPECTABLE CHARACTERS WITH WHOM THE READER IS ALREADY ACQUAINTED, AND SHOWS HOW MONKS AND THE JEW LAID THEIR WORTHY ...

Jedyna powieść Oscara Wilde'a, zaliczana do klasyki powieści gotyckich. Mimo wstępnego ocenzurowania przez redakcję magazynu literackiego, w którym się ukazała, wywołała oburzenie i ściągnęła na autora oskarżenia o obrazę moralności publicznej. Rok później Wilde opublikował znacznie poszerzo...

Red FoxCharles G. D. Roberts Red Fox / The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind Prefatory Note In the following story I have tried to trace the career of a fox of the backwoods districts of Eastern Canada. The hero of the stor...

Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870Various Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870 MAN AND WIVES A TRAVESTY.By MOSE SKINNER.CHAPTER SECONDLOVEThe Hon. MICHAEL LADLE and ARCHIBALD BLINKSOP were interrupted in their conversation by BELINDA, who sent off the former under pretence...

The Magic of OzL. Frank Baum The Magic of Oz I Dedicate this Book to the Children of our Soldiers, the Americans and their Allies, with unmeasured Pride and Affection. L. F. B.TO MY READERSCuriously enough, in the events which have taken place in the last few years in our “great outside world,” w...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 THE MIRROROFLITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION.Cheese Wring (To the Editor of the Mirror.)In presenting...

Newton ForsterFrederick Marryat Newton Forster Prefatory Note Newton Forster, or the Merchant Service, first appeared in the Metropolitan Magazine, 1832. It is one of the novels which specially suggests a comparison between Marryat and Smollett, both authors having described acts of impressment w...

Osceola the Seminole: or, The Red Fawn of the Flower LandPrefaceChapter One. The Flowery LandChapter Two. The Indigo PlantationChapter Three. The Two JakesChapter Four. The HommockChapter Five. Yellow JakeChapter Six. The AlligatorChapter Seven. The Turtle-CrawlChapter Eight. The King VulturesCha...

The Mahogany TreeWilliam Makepeace Thackeray The Mahogany Tree The Mahogany Tree"Some years since" said Thackeray in a public speech, "when I was younger, and used to frequent jolly assemblies, I wrote a Bacchanalian song to be chanted after dinner;" and a contemporary record has preserved a note...

The Voodoo Gold TrailWalter Walden The Voodoo Gold Trail CHAPTER I WE GET INTERESTING NEWS It was on a tropic sea, and night, that I heard a little scrap of a tale that had in it that which was destined to preserve my life. The waning moon had not yet risen; the stars were all out, the Milky Way ...