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BalzacEdgar Saltus Balzac CHAPTER I. THE VAGARIES OF GENIUS “Great minds are bravely eccentric; they scorn the beaten track.” – Goldsmith.In the city of Tours, in whose gabled streets there lingers still some memory of la belle Impéria, Honoré de Balzac was born on the 20th of May, 1799.His child...

Flying the Coast Skyways. Jack Ralston's Swift PatrolFlying the Coast Skyways Jack Ralston's Swift Patrol CHAPTER I By Airline to Atlanta “Big smoke dead ahead, partner!”“I’ve been expecting to hear you announce that fact, Per – I mean Wally!”“Kinder guess naow it mout be Birmingham, eh, what, Bo...

The Casual Ward: Academic and Other OddmentsA. D. Godley The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments Nearly all the flights in this book have been first taken in the Cornhill Magazine, the Oxford Magazine, or the Saturday Review. They are reproduced by the kind permission of the Editors of these...

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. Volume 2 of 2CHAPTER I. The Story of the Goblins who stole a SextonCHAPTER II. How the Pickwickians made and cultivated the Acquaintance of a couple of Nice Young Men belonging to one of the Liberal Professions; how they Disported themselves on the Ice;...

The Expedition of Humphry ClinkerTo Mr HENRY DAVIS, Bookseller, in LondonTo the Revd. Mr JONATHAN DUSTWICH, at—THE EXPEDITION OF HUMPHRY CLINKERTo Dr LEWIS To Mrs GWYLLIM, house-keeper at Brambleton-hall To Sir WATKIN PHILLIPS, Bart. of Jesus college, Oxon To Mrs JERMYN at her house in Gloucester...

The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two RosesStevenson Robert Louis The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses Critic on the Hearth: No one but myself knows what I have suffered, nor what my books have gained, by your unsleeping watchfulness and admirable pertinacity. And now here is a volume that goes ...

A Secret Inheritance. Volume 1 of 3Farjeon B. L. Benjamin Leopold A Secret Inheritance (Volume 1 of 3) BOOK THE FIRST. THE RECORD OF GABRIEL CAREW VOL. I.CHAPTER I My earliest distinct remembrances are of a mean and common home in London, in which I lived with my parents and a servant named Fortr...

CleopatraJacob Abbott Cleopatra PREFACE Of all the beautiful women of history, none has left us such convincing proofs of her charms as Cleopatra, for the tide of Rome's destiny, and, therefore, that of the world, turned aside because of her beauty. Julius Caesar, whose legions trampled the conqu...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 13, No. 357, February 21, 1829 WARWICK CASTLE.WARWICK CASTLE The history of a fabric, so intimately connected with some of the most impo...

Der lebende Leichnam. Drama in sechs Akten (zwölf Bildern)Leo N. Tolstoi Der lebende Leichnam Drama in sechs Akten (zwölf Bildern) Personen: Erster Akt Erstes Bild Die Handlung spielt in Moskau, in Protasows Wohnung. Die Szene stellt ein kleines Speisezimmer vorErster AuftrittAnna Pawlowna, eine ...