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1Author:  Astor, John JacobRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Journey in Other Worlds  
 Published:  1994 
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2Author:  Barr, Amelia E.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Remember the Alamo  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: In A. D. sixteen hundred and ninety-two, a few Franciscan monks began to build a city. The site chosen was a lovely wilderness hundreds of miles away from civilization on every side, and surrounded by savage and warlike tribes. But the spot was as beautiful as the garden of God. It was shielded by picturesque mountains, watered by two rivers, carpeted with flowers innumerable, shaded by noble trees joyful with the notes of a multitude of singing birds. To breathe the balmy atmosphere was to be conscious of some rarer and finer life, and the beauty of the sunny skies—marvellous at dawn and eve with tints of saffron and amethyst and opal—was like a dream of heaven.
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3Author:  Bierce, AmbroseRequires cookie*
 Title:  Can Such Things Be  
 Published:  1994 
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4Author:  Brann, William CowperRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1.  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: FOR more than six-and-thirty centuries the brand of the courtesan has rested on the brow of Potiphar's wife. The religious world persists in regarding her as an abandoned woman who wickedly strove to lead an immaculate he-virgin astray. The crime of which she stands accused is so unspeakably awful that even after the lapse of ages we cannot refer to the miserable creature without a moan. Compared with her infamous conduct old Lot's dalliance with his young daughters and David's ravishment of Uriah's wife appear but venial faults, or even shine as spotless virtues.
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5Author:  Burnett, Frances HodgsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Lady of Quality  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: ON a wintry morning at the close of 1685, the sun shining faint and red through a light fog, there was a great noise of baying dogs, loud voices, and trampling of horses in the courtyard at Wildairs Hall. Sir Jeoffry, being about to go forth a-hunting, and being a man with a choleric temper and big loud voice, and given to oaths and noise even when in good humor, his riding forth with his friends at any time was attended with boisterous commotion. This morning it was more so than usual, for he had guests with him who had come to his house the day before and had supped late and drunk deeply, whereby the day found them, some with headaches, some with a nausea at their stomachs, and some only in an evil humor which made them curse at their horses when they were restless, and break into loud surly laughs when a coarse joke was made. There were many such jokes, Sir Jeoffry and his boon companions being renowned throughout the county for the freedom of their conversation as well as for the scandal of their pastimes, and this day it was well indeed, as their loud-voiced, oath-besprinkled jests rang out on the cold air, that there were no ladies about to ride forth with them.
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6Author:  Cook, Frederick A.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Giant Indians of Tierra Del Fuego  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: Grayscale image of a man astride a horse
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7Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis  
 Published:  1994 
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8Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Her First Appearance  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: It was at the end of the first act of the first night of "The Sultana," and every member of the Lester Comic Opera Company, from Lester himself down to the wardrobe woman's son, who would have had to work if his mother lost her place, was sick with anxiety.
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9Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The King's Jackal  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: The private terrace of the Hotel Grand Bretagne, at Tangier, was shaded by a great awning of red and green and yellow, and strewn with colored mats, and plants in pots, and wicker chairs. It reached out from the Kings apartments into the Garden of Palms, and was hidden by them on two sides, and showed from the third the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the great shadow of Gibraltar in the distance.
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10Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Lion and the Unicorn  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: PRENTISS had a long lease on the house, and because it stood in Jermyn Street the upper floors were, as a matter of course, turned into lodgings for single gentlemen; and because Prentiss was a Florist to the Queen, he placed a lion and unicorn over his flower-shop, just in front of the middle window on the first floor. By stretching a little, each of them could see into the window just beyond him, and could hear all that was said inside; and such things as they saw and heard during the reign of Captain Carrington, who moved in at the same time they did! By day the table in the centre of the room was covered with maps, and the Captain sat with a box of pins, with different-colored flags wrapped around them, and amused himself by sticking them in the maps and measuring the spaces in between, swearing meanwhile to himself. It was a selfish amusement, but it appeared to be the Captain's only intellectual pursuit, for at night, the maps were rolled up, and a green cloth was spread across the table, and there was much company and popping of soda-bottles, and little heaps of gold and silver were moved this way and that across the cloth. The smoke drifted out of the open windows, and the laughter of the Captain's guests rang out loudly in the empty street, so that the policeman halted and raised his eyes reprovingly to the lighted windows, and cabmen drew up beneath them and lay in wait, dozing on their folded arms, for the Captain's guests to depart. The Lion and the Unicorn were rather ashamed of the scandal of it, and they were glad when, one day, the Captain went away with his tin boxes and gun-cases piled high on a four-wheeler.
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11Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Princess Aline  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: Front cover Spine
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12Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Reporter Who Made Himself King  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: The Old Time Journalist will tell you that the best reporter is the one who works his way up. He holds that the only way to start is as a printer's devil or as an office boy, to learn in time to set type, to graduate from a compositor into a stenographer, and as a stenographer take down speeches at public meetings, and so finally grow into a real reporter, with a fire badge on your left suspender, and a speaking acquaintance with all the greatest men in the city, not even excepting Police Captains.
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13Author:  Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Soldiers of Fortune  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: “IT is so good of you to come early,” said Mrs. Porter, as Alice Langham entered the drawing-room. “I want to ask a favor of you. I'm sure you won't mind. I would ask one of the débutantes, except that they're always so cross if one puts them next to men they don't know and who can't help them, and so I thought I'd just ask you, you're so good-natured. You don't mind, do you?”
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14Author:  Dixon, ThomasRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Foolish Virgin  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: Mary Adams, you're a fool!"
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15Author:  Doyle, Arthur ConanRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Stark Munro Letters  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: He paced up and down in his jerky, quick-stepping fashion. See page 4. A man standing and with a cane pointing at three mugs placed on the room. Seated at a table are two men watching pensively.
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16Author:  Eliot, GeorgeRequires cookie*
 Title:  Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)  
 Published:  1994 
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17Author:  Ferber, EdnaRequires cookie*
 Title:  Buttered Side Down  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: Any one who has ever written for the magazines (nobody could devise a more sweeping opening; it includes the iceman who does a humorous article on the subject of his troubles, and the neglected wife next door, who journalizes) knows that a story the scene of which is not New York is merely junk. Take Fifth Avenue as a framework, pad it out to five thousand words, and there you have the ideal short story.
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18Author:  Jewett, Sarah OrneRequires cookie*
 Title:  In Dark New England Days  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: THE last of the neighbors was going home; officious Mrs. Peter Downs had lingered late and sought for additional housework with which to prolong her stay. She had talked incessantly, and buzzed like a busy bee as she helped to put away the best crockery after the funeral supper, while the sisters Betsey and Hannah Knowles grew every moment more forbidding and unwilling to speak. They lighted a solitary small oil lamp at last as if for Sunday evening idleness, and put it on the side table in the kitchen.
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19Author:  Leroux, GastonRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Phantom of the Opera  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade.
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20Author:  Montgomery, L. M.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Anne of Avonlea  
 Published:  1994 
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 Description: A tall, slim girl, “half-past sixteen,” with serious gray eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on the broad red sandstone doorstep of a Prince Edward Island farmhouse one ripe afternoon in August, firmly resolved to construe so many lines of Virgil.
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