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The Follies of a Day

Thomas Holcroft

Readers are divided into two Classes; the one will allow an Author much more than he merits, and the other much less; but the principal Excellencies of The Follies of a Day are so known to be another’..

The Gibson Book - Vol. II

Charles Dana Gibson

The Gibson Book: A Collection of Published Works of Charles Dana Gibson. Vol. IICONTENTS:A WIDOW AND HER FRIENDSTHE SOCIAL LADDERTHE WEAKER SEXEVERYDAY PEOPLEOUR NEIGHBORS(In certain versions of this ..

Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates

E. Keble Chatterton

Daring Deeds of Famous PiratesTrue stories of the stirring adventures, bravery and resource of pirates, filibusters & buccaneers.International law and the growth of navies have practically put an ..

Runaway

Alfred Coppel

The trip out was almost too uneventful. We found a clear channel through the Belt and came through without a change of course. In those days no one had ever heard of deflectors, and a free passage thr..

Animat

Basil Wells

Jay Forsix turned puzzled eyes on the little knot of survivors beside the ship. His fair-skinned face was square, like his powerful short body, and there was red hair sprouting from beneath the gray p..

Elementary Botany

George Francis Atkinson

This deals with the life processes of plants, as absorption, transpiration, conduction, photosynthesis, nutrition, assimilation, digestion, respiration, growth, and irritability. Since protoplasm is f..

The Princess Casamassima - A Novel

Henry James

Mrs Bowerbank, in a leisurely, roundabout way, wandered off to her sister, Mrs Chipperfield, whom she had come into that part of the world to see, and the whole history of the dropsical tendencies of ..

The Star Beast

Damon Knight

Captain Tooker and the medical officer, Dr. Evans, met them at the door of the dead man's stateroom. Tooker was boiling over. "Do you call yourselves Security agents?" he shouted. "Three of you, to pr..