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... (1915) (1915) (1915) A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...chool, and Benham, after some self-examination, professed an atheisti- cal republicanism rather in the manner of Shelley. This brought him into open c... ...e manner of Shelley. This brought him into open conflict with Roddles, the History Master. Roddles had discovered these theological controver- sies in... ... very clearly. His struggle with fear was the very beginning of his soul’s history. It continued to the end. He had hardly decided to lead the noble l... ...y had to be united in spite of all the rotten little dukes and princes and republics, just as Germany had to be united in spite of its scores of kingd... ... in North Italy with his mother, and escaped from the glowing lassitude of Venice for some days of climbing in the Eastern Alps. In January, in an out...

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Excerpt: The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two.

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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Excerpt: The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris.

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Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

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