Burlesques
  • By William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

THE ANNOUNCEMENT.On the 1st of January, 1838, I was the master of a lovely shop in the neighborhood of Oxford Market; of a wife, Mrs. Cox; of a business, both in the shaving and...

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The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 2
  • By Charles Dudley Warner
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

PARIS IN MAY—FRENCH GIRLS—THE EMPEROR AT LONGCHAMPSIt was the first of May when we came up from Italy. The spring grew on us as we advanced north; vegetation seemed...

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Meditations
  • By Emperor Of Rome Marcus Aurelius
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

INTRODUCTIONMARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a noble family which claimed descent from Numa,...

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The Bell-ringer Of Angel's
  • By Bret Harte
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

CHAPTER I.Where the North Fork of the Stanislaus River begins to lose its youthful grace, vigor, and agility, and broadens more maturely into the plain, there is a little...

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The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
  • By Charles Dudley Warner
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

INTRODUCTORY LETTERMY DEAR MR. FIELDS,—I did promise to write an Introduction to these charming papers but an Introduction,—what is it?—a sort of pilaster, put...

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Under The Greenwood Tree, Or, The Mellstock Quire; A Rural Painting Of The Dutch School
  • By Thomas Hardy
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

PREFACEThis story of the Mellstock Quire and its old established west-gallery musicians, with some supplementary descriptions of similar officials in Two on a Tower, A Few Crusted...

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The Story Of A Mine
  • By Bret Harte
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

CHAPTER IWHO SOUGHT ITIt was a steep trail leading over the Monterey Coast Range. Concho was very tired, Concho was very dusty, Concho was very much disgusted. To Concho's...

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Poems By Emily Dickinson, Series Two
  • By Emily Dickinson
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

PREFACEThe eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a...

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The Complete Writings Of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 4
  • By Charles Dudley Warner
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

BEING A BOYOne of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that...

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Zanoni
  • By Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
  • Publisher: CAIMAN

INTRODUCTION.One of the peculiarities of Bulwer was his passion for occult studies. They had a charm for him early in life, and he pursued them with the earnestness which...

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