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Amongst the books to which I am indebted for my material in my endeavour to draw various phases of life and character in England at the beginning of the century, I would particularly mention Ashton's Dawn of the Nineteenth Century; Gronow's Reminiscences; Fitzgerald's...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Descent of Man
During the successive reprints of the first edition of this work, published in 1871, I was able to introduce several important corrections; and now that more time has elapsed, I have endeavoured to profit by the fiery ordeal through which the book has passed, and have...

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Télécharger le livre :  Emerald
The four-year-old stallion Emerald, a big silver-grey racehorse of American build, woke up in his stall about midnight as usual. To the right and left of him, and across the passage, the other horses were chewing hay to a rhythm, lustily crunching it and snorting...

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Télécharger le livre :  Essays, First Series
THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel;...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Hand of Ethelberta
This somewhat frivolous narrative was produced as an interlude between stories of a more sober design, and it was given the sub-title of a comedy to indicate - though not quite accurately - the aim of the performance. A high degree of probability was not attempted in...

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Télécharger le livre :  In the Days of Chivalry
Autumn was upon the world - the warm and gorgeous autumn of the south - autumn that turned the leaves upon the trees to every hue of russet, scarlet, and gold, that transformed the dark solemn aisles of the trackless forests of Gascony into what might well have been...

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Télécharger le livre :  Emile Zola
Zola embodied his ideal inadequately, as every man who embodies an ideal must. His realism was his creed, which he tried to make his deed; but, before his fight was ended, and almost before he began to forebode it a losing fight, he began to feel and to say (for to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lady Caprice
To sit beside a river on a golden afternoon listening to its whispered melody, while the air about one is fragrant with summer, and heavy with the drone of unseen wings! - What ordinary mortal could wish for more? And yet, though conscious of this fair world about me,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Love-Songs of Childhood
There is one little dream of a beautiful drum

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Télécharger le livre :  Finished
You are, I know, a lover of old Allan Quatermain, one who understands and appreciates the views of life and the aspirations that underlie and inform his manifold adventures.

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Télécharger le livre :  Conscience
The short wintry days were beginning to lengthen, the sun rose earlier and staid up longer. Now and then a bluebird was heard twittering a welcome to the coming spring. As for the robins, they were as pert and busy as usual.The little streams were beginning to find...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nomad of Nine Lives
Uncle, why don't you write the story of your life? So says my nephew Tom to me when he comes in and finds me sitting in a brown study before a comfortable fire. I have finally granted his request, for I have spent many an hour in relating my thrilling adventures to him...

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Télécharger le livre :  Monsieur Lecoq
At about eleven o'clock in the evening of the 20th of February, 186 -, which chanced to be Shrove Sunday, a party of detectives left the police station near the old Barriere d'Italie to the direct south of Paris. Their mission was to explore the district extending on...

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Télécharger le livre :  Go Ahead Boys and Racing Motorboat
Every normal boy loves a motor-boat, but words fail to express his enthusiasm when that boat is also a racer. Behind the events recorded in this story are certain facts, so that the tale is largely true. The author will be glad if the account of life in the open, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Villa Rubein and Other Stories
Writing not long ago to my oldest literary friend, I expressed in a moment of heedless sentiment the wish that we might have again one of our talks of long-past days, over the purposes and methods of our art. And my friend, wiser than I, as he has always been, replied...

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Télécharger le livre :  Allan and the Holy Flower
I do not suppose that anyone who knows the name of Allan Quatermain would be likely to associate it with flowers, and especially with orchids. Yet as it happens it was once my lot to take part in an orchid hunt of so remarkable a character thatI think its details should...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Island Pharisees
Each man born into the world is born like Shelton in this book - to go a journey, and for the most part he is born on the high road. At first he sits there in the dust, with his little chubby hands reaching at nothing, and his little solemn eyes staring into space. As...

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Télécharger le livre :  Spain
I Am Ordered to Leave Vienna The Empress Moderates but Does Not Annul the Order Zavoiski at Munich My Stay at Augsburg Gasconnade at Louisburg The Cologne Newspaper My Arrival at Aix-la-Chapelle

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Télécharger le livre :  Jewel
Now you polish up those buckles real good, won't you, 'Zekiel? I will say for Fanshaw, you could most see your face in the harness always.

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Télécharger le livre :  Lady of Blossholme
Who that has ever seen them can forget the ruins of Blossholme Abbey, set upon their mount between the great waters of the tidal estuary to the north, the rich lands and grazing marshes that, backed with woods, border it east and south, and to the west by the rolling...

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