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Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There'Carleton B. Case Stories from the Trenches: Humorous and Lively Doings of Our 'Boys Over There' THE MAN WHO “CAME BACK” ONE of the strangest of the many personal romances which the war has brought is the tale of a man w...

Сатирическая повесть «Высокочтимые попрошайки», написанная в 1888 г., по существу, представляет собой драматическое произведение, переделанное в прозу. Определяя идею своей повести, Акоп Паронян говорит, что он создал её «из желания показать грядущим поколениям плачевное бытие интеллигентов: наше...

Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870Various Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 36, December 3, 1870 MAN AND WIVES A TRAVESTY.By MOSE SKINNER.CHAPTER SECONDLOVEThe Hon. MICHAEL LADLE and ARCHIBALD BLINKSOP were interrupted in their conversation by BELINDA, who sent off the former under pretence...

Mr. Punch's History of Modern England. Volume 3 of 4.—1874-1892Charles L. Graves Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 3 (of 4).—1874-1892 PART I THE NATIONAL OUTLOOK HIGH POLITICS The pageant of the Victorian age reached its grand climacteric in the period on which we now enter. As a "drum...

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The Casual Ward: Academic and Other OddmentsA. D. Godley The Casual Ward: Academic and Other Oddments Nearly all the flights in this book have been first taken in the Cornhill Magazine, the Oxford Magazine, or the Saturday Review. They are reproduced by the kind permission of the Editors of these...

The Adventures of a SuburbaniteEllis Parker Butler The Adventures of a Suburbanite I. THE PRAWLEYS ISOBEL was born in a flat, and that was no fault of her own; but she was born in a flat, and reared in a flat, and married from a flat, and, for two years after we were married, we lived in a flat; ...

В жизни Бекки, похоже, наступают крутые перемены: она ждет ребенка. Знаете, чем отличается просто беременная женщина от беременной женщины-шопоголика? Если просто беременная женщина думает о какой-то ерунде, вроде врачей, родов, воспитания будущего наследника, то беременная женщина-шопоголик преж...

The Abandoned Farmers. His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the FarmCobb Irvin S. Irvin Shrewsbury The Abandoned Farmers His Humorous Account of a Retreat from the City to the Farm THE ABANDONED FARMERS CHAPTER I. WHICH REALLY IS A PREFACE IN DISGUISE It is the inclination of the av...

Arcadian Adventures with the Idle RichStephen Leacock Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich CHAPTER ONE: A Little Dinner with Mr. Lucullus Fyshe The Mausoleum Club stands on the quietest corner of the best residential street in the City. It is a Grecian building of white stone. About it are grea...