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Brand: Brander Matthews
Let me begin by confessing my regret that I cannot overhear your first remark when you receive this sheaf of essays, many of which are devoted t..
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Brand: Maurus Jókai
It is nasty, dirty weather outside there on the puszta;1 the sky is cloudy, the earth muddy, the rain has been falling for two weeks incessantly..
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Brand: J. SHERIDAN LE FANU
ABOUT thirty years ago I was selected by two rich old maids to visit a property in that part of Lancashire which lies near the famous forest of Pendle..
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Brand: J. M. Barrie
Early this morning I opened a window in my schoolhouse in the glen of Quharity, awakened by the shivering of a starving sparrow against the frosted gl..
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Brand: Mór Jókai
We are in the depths of an underground cavern. It is bad enough to be underground, but here we are all enveloped in black as well: the ceiling is blac..
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Brand: Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
There stands about a mile and a half beyond Islington, unless it has come down with..
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Brand: Matthew Arnold
My foremost design in writing this Preface is to address a word of exhortation to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. In the essay which fo..
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Brand: Catherine Owen
Alexandre Dumas, père, after writing five hundred novels, says, "I wish to close my literary career with a..
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Brand: J. M. Barrie
The scene is a darkened room, which the curtain reveals so stealthily that if there was a mouse on the stage it is there still. Our object is to catch..
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Brand: Mor Jokai
At that time I was but ten years old, my brother Lorand sixteen; our dear mother was still young, and father, I w..
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Brand: Henry Milner Rideout
It was "about first-drink time," as the captain of the Tsuen-Chau, bound for Shanghai and Japan ports, observed t..
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Brand: J. M. Barrie
Three nice old ladies and a criminal, who is even nicer, are discussing the war over a cup of tea. The criminal, ..
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