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21Author:  Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950Requires cookie*
 Title:  Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: LIEUTENANT ALBERT WERPER had only the prestige of the name he had dishonored to thank for his narrow escape from being cashiered. At first he had been humbly thankful, too, that they had sent him to this Godforsaken Congo post instead of court-martialing him, as he had so justly deserved; but now six months of the monotony, the frightful isolation and the loneliness had wrought a change. The young man brooded continually over his fate. His days were filled with morbid self-pity, which eventually engendered in his weak and vacillating mind a hatred for those who had sent him here—for the very men he had at first inwardly thanked for saving him from the ignominy of degradation.
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22Author:  Burnett, Frances HodgsonRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Secret Garden  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English Government and had always been busy and ill himself, and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born she handed her over to the care of an Ayah, who was made to understand that if she wished to please the Mem Sahib she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, fretful, ugly little baby she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, fretful, toddling thing she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything but the dark faces of her Ayah and the other native servants, and as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the Mem Sahib would be angry if she was disturbed by her crying, by the time she was six years old she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and write disliked her so much that she gave up her place in three months, and when other governesses came to try to fill it they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books she would never have learned her letters at all.
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23Author:  Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950Requires cookie*
 Title:  Tarzan the Untamed  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: HAUPTMANN FRITZ SCHNEIDER trudged wearily through the somber aisles of the dark forest. Sweat rolled down his bullet head and stood upon his heavy jowls and bull neck. His lieutenant marched beside him while Underlieutenant von Goss brought up the rear, following with a handful of askaris the tired and all but exhausted porters whom the black soldiers, following the example of their white officer, encouraged with the sharp points of bayonets and the metal-shod butts of rifles.
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24Author:  Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Erewhon; or, Over the range  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: If the reader will excuse me, I will say nothing of my antecedents, nor of the circumstances which led me to leave my native country; the narrative would be tedious to him and painful to myself. Suffice it, that when I left home it was with the intention of going to some new colony, and either finding, or even perhaps purchasing, waste crown land suitable for cattle or sheep farming, by which means I thought that I could better my fortunes more rapidly than in England.
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25Author:  Cahan, AbrahamRequires cookie*
 Title:  The Apostate of Chego-Chegg  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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26Author:  Cather, Willa SibertRequires cookie*
 Title:  The song of the lark / by Willa Sibert Cather  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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27Author:  Chater, MelvilleRequires cookie*
 Title:  "How the Man Came to Twinkling Island" / by Melville Chater ; illustrations by J. N. Marchand  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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28Author:  Chopin, KateRequires cookie*
 Title:  Beyond the Bayou / by Kate Chopin  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: THE bayou curved like a crescent around the point of land on which La Folle's cabin stood. Between the stream and the hut lay a big abandoned field, where cattle were pastured when the bayou supplied them with water enough. Through the woods that spread back into unknown regions the woman had drawn an imaginary line, and past this circle she never stepped. This was the form of her only mania.
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29Author:  Chopin, KateRequires cookie*
 Title:  Ma`ame Pelagie / by Kate Chopin  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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30Author:  Chopin, KateRequires cookie*
 Title:  A Respectable Woman / by Kate Chopin  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: 
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31Author:  Cleland, John, 1709-1789.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Memoirs of Fanny Hill.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: I sit down to give you an undeniable proof of my considering your desires as indispensable orders. Ungracious then as the task may be, I shall recall to view those scandalous stages of my life, out of which I emerged, at length, to the enjoyment of every blessing in the power of love, health, and fortune to bestow; whilst yet in the flower of youth, and not too late to employ the leisure afforded me by great ease and affluence, to cultivate an understanding, naturally not a despicable one, and which had, even amidst the whirl of loose pleasures I had been toss'd in, exerted more observation on the characters and manners of the world than what is common to those of my unhappy profession, who looking on all thought or reflection as their capital enemy, keep it at as great a distance as they can, or destroy it without mercy.
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32Author:  Crissey, ForrestRequires cookie*
 Title:  Tattlings of a Retired Politician  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Being the remarks of "Bill" Bradley, former legislator, congressman, Governor and United States Senator, to his younger friend Ned, who has written that he has a cinch on a re-election and that he proposes to take it easy in this campaign, as there is no need of hustling. Incidentally the retired "party warhorse" expresses himself on the irksomeness of "existence by corporate courtesy" and the delights of retirement.
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33Author:  Dana, Richard Henry, 1815-1882Requires cookie*
 Title:  Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative / by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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34Author:  Brock: Davis, Andrew McFarlandRequires cookie*
 Title:  Currency and Banking in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay [excerpts] / by Andrew McFarland Davis  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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35Author:  Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.Requires cookie*
 Title:  Many Waters  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: WELL?"
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36Author:  Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Way to Peace  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Second title page
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37Author:  Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell, 1857-1945.Requires cookie*
 Title:  The Voice / by Margaret Deland; illustrated by W.H.D. Koerner.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
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38Author:  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870Requires cookie*
 Title:  Barnaby Rudge / by Charles Dickens.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: AS it is Mr. Waterton's opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offer a few words here about mine.
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39Author:  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870Requires cookie*
 Title:  Battle of Life  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: Once upon a time, it matters little when, and in stalwart England, it matters little where, a fierce battle was fought. It was fought upon a long summer day when the waving grass was green. Many a wild flower formed by the Almighty Hand to be a perfumed goblet for the dew, felt its enamelled cup filled high with blood that day, and shrinking dropped. Many an insect deriving its delicate colour from harmless leaves and herbs, was stained anew that day by dying men, and marked its frightened way with an unnatural track. The painted butterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its wings. The stream ran red. The trodden ground became a quagmire, whence, from sullen pools collected in the prints of human feet and horses' hoofs, the one prevailing hue still lowered and glimmered at the sun.
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40Author:  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870Requires cookie*
 Title:  A child`s history of England / by Charles Dickens ; with illustrations by Marcus Stone.  
 Published:  2000 
 Subjects:  University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text 
 Description: IF you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland,—broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water.
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