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Publisher
Ward, Lock & Co.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825. He collected his recent works in January 1826 in Poèmes antiques et modernes. Three months later he published the first important...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"This is the exciting story of Ree Kingdom and John Jerome, two courageous lads who start out from their Connecticut homes in 1790 on a perilous trip through the forests to live with the Indians in the Ohio River Valley, and trade with them. The journey is packed with unusual adventures, and not a little danger. When they finally reach the chosen territory, the veteran frontiersman, Tom Fish, helps them to find suitable location for a cabin near a...
Author
Publisher
Bradbury, Evans, and Co.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
To have entered, more fully than I have done, into the events and fighting prior to the Retreat from Cabul, would have proved unsuitable for the purpose of my story, and for these events I must refer the reader to history or the newspapers of the time.
An officer of the Queen's 44th Regiment escaped death in the Khyber Pass in the mode narrated in its place, by wrapping the regimental colour round him; and strange and varied as the adventures of...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
It was such a fine hot Midsummer day at Hollowdell station, that the porter had grown tired of teasing the truck-driver’s dog, and fallen fast asleep—an example which the dog had tried to follow, but could not, because there was only one shady spot within the station-gates, and that had been taken possession of by the porter; so the poor dog had tried first one place, and then another, but they were all so hot and stifling, and the flies kept...
Author
Publisher
Ward, Lock & Co.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825. He collected his recent works in January 1826 in Poèmes antiques et modernes. Three months later he published the first important...
Author
Publisher
Dana Estes & Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
IF your mother is willing, I will take you for a walk with me,” said Señor Vasquez, smiling indulgently at his twin son and daughter. Anitia clapped her hands in delight as she ran after Antonio in search of their mother. They found her in the despensa, the store-house of many delicious dainties, as she was busy giving out the supplies for the holiday supper that evening. She followed them into the patio, however, and gave them the desired permission....
Author
Publisher
Charles Scribner's Sons
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The story of Monarch is founded on material gathered from many sources as well as from personal experience, and the Bear is of necessity a composite. The great Grizzly Monarch, still pacing his prison floor at the Golden Gate Park, is the central fact of the tale [...] The aim of the story is to picture the life of a Grizzly with the added glamour of a remarkable Bear personality. The intention is to convey the known truth. But the fact that liberties...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'THEN you are here!' said a stern, gruff voice, addressing a pale, sickly-looking youth, whose frame trembled and whose lip quivered as he approached one who sat at the side of a low pine table;—it was his master, a man of about forty, of athletic form, and of power sufficient to crush the feeble youth.
'Well,' he continued, 'if you are sure that you gave it to him, go to bed; but mind you, whisper-breathe not the secret to a living soul, on peril...
Author
Publisher
Whitman Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
King Arthur, who held sway in Camelot with his Knights of the Round Table, was supposedly a king of Britain hundreds of years ago. Most of the stories about him are probably not historically true, but there was perhaps a real king named Arthur, or with a name very much like Arthur, who ruled somewhere in the island of Britain about the sixth century. This book, originally published in 1918, is a fictional story set in his royal court.
Author
Publisher
Cupples & Leon Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'I do wish you'd wear a sunbonnet, Betty,' said Mrs. Arnold, glancing up from her ironing board as Betty Gordon came into the kitchen. 'You're getting old enough now to think a little about your complexion.'
Betty's brown eyes laughed over the rim of the glass of water she had drawn at the sink.
'I can't stand a sunbonnet,' she declared vehemently, returning the glass to the nickel holder under the shelf. 'I know just how a horse feels with blinders...
Author
Publisher
Ward, Lock & Co.
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Prolonging successive leaves from the army, he settled in Paris with his young English bride Lydia Bunbury, whom he married in Pau in 1825. He collected his recent works in January 1826 in Poèmes antiques et modernes. Three months later he published the first important...
Author
Publisher
J.B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Foreword:
It has taken Americans to build the Panama Canal, and it took the Americans to build California. These are two great feats of which we Americans of the United States may well be proud: the building of that canal, in the strange tropics 2000 miles away across the water, and the up-rearing of a mighty State, under equally strange conditions, 2000 miles away across plains and mountains.
On the Isthmus men of many nationalities combined like...
97) Hetty Wesley
Author
Publisher
Harper and Brothers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?"
At Surat, by a window of his private office in the East India Company's factory, a middle-aged man stared out upon the broad river and the wharves below. Business in the factory had ceased for the day: clerks and porters had gone about their own affairs, and had left the great building strangely cool and empty and...
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In May, 1624, the Dutch packet New Netherlands sailed up the Hudson River to the head of navigation, bringing a company of eighteen families under the leadership of Adrian Joris. The immigrants landed at a little trading post called Beaverwick kept by one Tice Oesterhout, a pioneer hunter, married to a Mohawk Squaw.
Author
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The crows had come back. With the fashionables of Maine they had gone south for the winter, but now on the third day of March the advance guard of the solemn, black army soared in sight.
They were cawing over the green pine woods of North Marsden, they were cawing over the black spruces of South Marsden, and in Middle Marsden, where the sun had melted the snow on a few exposed knolls
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