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A City Schoolgirl and Her FriendsBaldwin May A City Schoolgirl and Her Friends CHAPTER I. HARD FACTS 'These are the facts, Miss Wharton; hard facts no doubt, but you wished for the truth, and indeed I could not have hidden it from you even if I had wished to do so.' So said a keen but kindly face...

Tuomo sedän tupaHarriet Beecher Stowe Tuomo sedän tupa Esipuhe Nuori lukijani! Varmaankin olet kuullut puhuttavan neekereistä Pohjois-Amerikan Yhdysvalloissa. Neekerit ovat, kuten tiedät, kotoisin Afrikasta, mutta kun Amerikassa tarvittiin työvoimia, tuotiin heitä sinne joukottain suurilla laivoi...

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...

The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the UnseenDoyle Arthur Conan The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen I THE BROWN HAND Every one knows that Sir Dominick Holden, the famous Indian surgeon, made me his heir, and that his death changed ...

Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917Trotsky Leon Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 PREFACE The world has not known us Russian revolutionists. The world has sympathized with us; the world abroad has given aid ...

A Top-Floor IdylVan Schaick George A Top-Floor Idyl CHAPTER I THE NIGHT ALARM I smiled at my friend Gordon, the distinguished painter, lifting up my glass and taking a sip of the table d'hôte claret, which the Widow Camus supplies with her famed sixty-five cent repast. It is, I must acknowledge, ...

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 ...

CarmenProsper Mérimée Carmen CHAPTER I I had always suspected the geographical authorities did not know what they were talking about when they located the battlefield of Munda in the county of the Bastuli-Poeni, close to the modern Monda, some two leagues north of Marbella.According to my own sur...

Demonien ruhtinatarNikolai Vasilevich Gogol Demonien ruhtinatar / Kertomus ESIPUHE Nikolai Vasiljevuitsh Gogol on saanut osakseen mainetta ja ihailua Venäjän kirjallisuuden realistisen suunnan varsinaisena uranuurtajana, venäläisen draaman luojana, ja maansa kirjallisuuden kenties suurimpana ja t...

Polly and Her Friends AbroadRoy Lillian Elizabeth Polly and Her Friends Abroad CHAPTER I – THE ALEXANDERS Eleanor Maynard left her friend, Polly Brewster, in the stateroom, cutting the stems of the gorgeous American Beauty roses, and arranging them anew in the tall glass of fresh water. As she wa...