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...Preface: An affair which might be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume or large pamphlet. The smallness of the scale, and the singularity of the manners and events and many of the characters, considered, it is hoped that...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvan... ...tevenson PREFACE AN AFFAIR WHICH MIGHT be deemed worthy of a note of a few lines in any general history has been here expanded to the size of a volume... ... are called. These can only be attributed to the descendants of particular lines. Once granted, each name conveys at once the principality (whatever t... ...d a somewhat similar demand. CHAPTER III – THE SORROWS OF LAUPEPA, 1883 TO 1887 Y OU RIDE IN A GERMAN plantation and see no bush, no soul stirring; on... ... of action. The Hon. John E. Bush, a half-caste Hawaiian, sailed (December 1887) for Apia as minister-plenipotentiary, accompanied by a secre- tary of... ...ged again for a period of weeks into her original island-obscurity, Becker opened his guns. The policy was too cunning to seem dignified; it gave to c... ...les. The windows were out of reach; and there was only one door, which was opened at six in the morning and shut again at six at night. All day he had... ...t house, with carriages inside and a wonderful roof of glass”; to wit, the railway station. They were benighted on the train, and then went in “someth...

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...o other sound or mark of life, whether of man or beast, in all that quarter of the is- land. Winged by her own impetus and the dying breeze, the Casco... ...to speak to people is not all. And in the first stage of my relations with natives I was helped by two things. To begin with, I was the show-man of th... ...o learn, and helped me to understand, about the Tevas of Tahiti. The native was 12 In The South Seas no longer ashamed, his sense of kinship grew war... ... tells me they are to be reckoned by the dozen; and as the roads have been made long posterior to their erection, perhaps to their desertion, and must... ... roads lay desert, or were only visited by men in arms. It is for this very reason that it wears now so smiling an appearance: cleared, planted, built... ...tream. Presently a red star appeared, about the height and brightness of a danger signal, and with that my simile was changed; we seemed rather to ski... ...as a tiny skeleton. The race seems in a fair way to survive. From fifteen islands, whose rolls I had occasion to consult, I found a proportion of 59 b...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the ... ...s astonishing advent with a series of little blue-grey books, whose covers opened like window-shutters to reveal the dusty sun-glare and blaz- ing col... ... were found in the bedrooms of convalescents and in dentists’ parlours and railway trains than in gentlemen’s studies. I would rather have it dipped i... ...’” “I don’t see anything in that,” I said, though later my eyes were to be opened. One Sunday afternoon about that time I was sitting at my writing-de... ... the iridescent coal of the place. Nearer at hand was the broad stretch of railway, and half-invisible trains shunted—a steady puffing and rumbling, w... ...ish. I took the egg ashore and put it in a good place, well above the tide lines and in the sun, to give it all the chance I could, and pulled the can... ...ettling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string... ...ife (devoted, I understand, chiefly to the laying of parquet flooring), in 1887. Gottfried’s age is seven-and- twenty. He is, by virtue of his heritag...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, ... ...ion held by Prince Kropotkin*, who says: “Chichikov may buy dead souls, or railway shares, or he may collect funds for some charitable institution, or... ...86; Taras Bulba: Also St. John’s Eve and Other Stories, London, Vizetelly, 1887; Taras Bulba, trans. by B. C. Baskerville, London, Scott, 1907; The In... ...Isabel F. Hapgood, New York, Crowell, 1886; Dead Souls, London, Vizetelly, 1887; Dead Souls, London, Maxwell 1887; Medi- tations on the Divine Liturgy... ...and whenever he noticed that they were on the point of laughing he at once opened his mouth, and laughed with enthusiasm. Probably he was a man of gra... ... Two minutes later she returned with a lantern in her hand, the gates were opened, and a light glimmered in a second window. Entering the courtyard, t... ...ay be remarked that neither corridors nor rooms evinced any of that clean- liness and purity which marked the exterior of the build- 148 Dead Souls i... ...s lucky.” Presently the britchka turned into some less frequented streets, lines of wooden fencing of the kind which mark the outskirts of a town bega...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way, does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sylvie and Bruno Glass by Lewis Carroll, the Pennsylvania S... ...cupy the time, I got out the letter, which had caused me to take this sudden railway journey from my London home down to a strange fishing town on the... ...d!” the Warden repeated in astonishment. “Why, the new Government Bakery was opened only last week, and I gave orders to sell the bread at cost price ... ...ly that even Uggug, who had gone to sleep in his chair, left off snoring and opened one eye. The Professor pocketed his ther mometer in a moment, cla... ...ess they are really terrifying?” “Quite so,” the lady assented. “The regular Railway Ghosts—I mean the Ghosts of ordinary Railway literature— are ver... ...d man slowly rise to his feet, and hobble a few paces down the platform, the lines came to my lips: “From sackcloth couch the Monk arose, Wit... ... Welcoming our Fairy King, We sing, sing, sing.” He sang the first four lines briskly and merrily, making the hare bells chime in time with the m... ...ich came into my head (as I have already related in ‘The Theatre’ for April, 1887) quite suddenly, during a solitary walk: and such, again, have been ...

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ... that the mo- tive and end of any art whatever is to make a pattern; a pattern, it may be, of colours, of sounds, of changing atti- tudes, geometrical... ...not disturb the somewhat larger stride of the prose style; but one following another will produce an in- stant impression of poverty, flatness, and di... ...mingled.’** V. L. M. From these delicate and choice writers I turned with some curiosity to a player of the big drum – Macaulay. I had in hand the two... ...had a great effect upon my mind, and was the burthen of my re- flections for long, so profoundly, so touchingly generous did *First published in the B... ...ty of hand; and that ability, child- *First published in the Magazine of Art in 1883. 36 Robert Louis Stevenson ishly indulged, has led to the works ... ...u knew). My uncle lived when he was a boy in the neighbourhood of St. Bride’s; he has often told me of the avenue closed up and grown over with grass,...

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...Excerpt: A Scandal in Bohemia; TO SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to lov...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue ...

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...The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents A Scandal in Bohemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I . . ... ...nture of the Copper Beeches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 A Scandal in Bohemia 1 I T O SHERLOCK HOLMES she is always... ...iling had ceased to enter into my head. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a drunken looking groom, ill kempt and side whiskered, with... ...in a great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly at home. “He w... ...ned to in the morning. It was a poky, little, shabby genteel place, where four lines of dingy two storied brick houses looked out into a small railed ... ...ened. His brows were The Boscombe Valley Mystery 69 drawn into two hard black lines, while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter... ...nerally in good style. By degrees he made friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter of a local brewer, by whom he now has two ... ...ter our return to England my mother died — she was killed eight years ago in a railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his attempts to... ...ing in the consulting room. I dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descen...

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...on of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued in England. In the States, it has not been thought advisable to reproduce the whole; and the memoir appearing alone, shorn of that other matter which was at once its occasion and its justification, so large an account of a ma...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsy... ...e new friends, the fault will be alto- gether mine. R. L S. SARANAC, OCT., 1887. 4 Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin CHAPTER I. The Jenkins of Stowting – Fle... ...d to bless him, surely with some remorseful feeling; for when the will was opened, there was not found so much as the mention of his name. He was deep... ...e written,’ he says at thirteen, ‘a very long story in heroic measure, 300 lines, and another Scotch story and innumer- able bits of poetry’; and at t... ...ing near, but did not come across any of the parties. As we approached the railway, the barricades were no longer formed of palings, planks, or stones... ... 25 Robert Louis Stevenson denly the gates of the gardens of the Tuileries opened: we rushed forward, out gallopped an enormous number of cuir- assier... ..., the cause was already lost and the King had already abdicated when these lines were written. No sooner did the news reach Genoa, than there began ‘t... ...rom a warmer sun, he was obliged to go without a greatcoat, and learned on railway journeys to supply the place of one with wrappings of old newspaper...