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The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present PowerJohn S. C. Abbott The Empire of Austria; Its Rise and Present Power PREFACE The studies of the author of this work, for the last ten years, in writing the "History of Napoleon Bonaparte," and "The French Revolution of 1789," have necessarily made h...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12.Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. / Volume 12, No. 349, Supplement to Volume 12 PREFACE The present sheet completes the TWELFTH VOLUME OF THE MIRROR. This circumstance alo...

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 ...

Le comte de MoretPREMIER VOLUMECHAPITRE Ier. L'HOTELLERIE DE LA BARBE PEINTE CHAPITRE II. CE QUI ADVINT DE LA PROPOSITION FAITE PAR L'INCONNU A MAITRE ÉTIENNE LATIL CHAPITRE III. OU LE LECTEUR COMMENCE A S'EXPLIQUER LA HAINE QUE LE GENTILHOMME BOSSU PORTAIT AU COMTE DE MORET, ET CE QU'IL EN ADVIN...

Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, TolstoyIvan Panin Lectures on Russian Literature: Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy PREFACE The translations given in this volume, with the exception of the storm-scene from Tolstoy in the First Lecture, are my own.The reader will please b...

The House of the Whispering PinesAnna Katharine Green The House of the Whispering Pines BOOK ONE SMOKE I THE HESITATING STEP To have reared a towering schemeOf happiness, and to behold it razed,Were nothing: all men hope, and see their hopesFrustrate, and grieve awhile, and hope anew;But— A Blot ...

Aline et Valcour, tome 2marquis de Sade Aline et Valcour, tome 2 / ou le roman philosophique TOME II. TROISIÈME PARTIE Écrit à la Bastille un an avant la Révolution de FranceORNÉ DE SEIZE GRAVURES1795Nam veluti pueris absinthia tetra medentes, Cum dare conantur prius oras pocula circum Contingunt...

Anna Karenina, 1. BandAnna Karenina, 1. Band Erster Teil „Die Rache ist mein, ich will vergelten.“1 Alle glücklichen Familien sind einander ähnlich; jede unglückliche Familie ist auf ihre Weise unglücklich. —Im Hause der Oblonskiy herrschte allgemeine Verwirrung. Die Dame des Hauses hatte in Erfa...

Where Love is There God is AlsoTolstoy Leo, graf Where Love is There God is Also In the city lived the shoemaker, Martuin Avdyeitch. He lived in a basement, in a little room with one window. The window looked out on the street. Through the window he used to watch the people passing by; although o...

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...