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The Picture of Dorian GrayWilde Oscar The Picture of Dorian Gray CHAPTER I The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the ...

Letters to His ChildrenTheodore Roosevelt Letters to His Children INTRODUCTION Most of the letters in this volume were written by Theodore Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than twenty years. A few others are included that he wrote to friends or relatives about the children. He be...

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827Various The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction / Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ALL NATIONS. NO. XIV The first of the above engravings represents one of the Body Gu...

Health and EducationCharles Kingsley Health and Education THE SCIENCE OF HEALTH Whether the British race is improving or degenerating? What, if it seem probably degenerating, are the causes of so great an evil? How they can be, if not destroyed, at least arrested?—These are questions worthy the a...

Ainsi Parlait ZarathoustraFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Ainsi Parlait Zarathoustra PREMIÈRE PARTIE LE PROLOGUE DE ZARATHOUSTRA Lorsque Zarathoustra eut atteint sa trentième année, il quitta sa patrie et le lac de sa patrie et s'en alla dans la montagne. Là il jouit de son esprit et de sa solitude e...

A Manual of the Operations of SurgeryJoseph Bell A Manual of the Operations of Surgery / For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES SYME, ESQ., F.R.C.S. AND F.R.S.E. SURGEON TO THE QUEEN IN SCOTLAND PROFESSOR OF CLINICAL SURGERY IN THE UNIVERSI...

Anna KareninaTolstoy Leo Anna Karenina PART ONE Chapter 1 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a gover...

Hereward, the Last of the EnglishCharles Kingsley Hereward, the Last of the English PRELUDE The heroic deeds of Highlanders, both in these islands and elsewhere, have been told in verse and prose, and not more often, nor more loudly, than they deserve. But we must remember, now and then, that the...

Classic French Course in EnglishWilliam Cleaver Wilkinson Classic French Course in English PREFACE The preparation of the present volume proposed to the author a task more difficult far than that undertaken in any one of the four preceding volumes of the group, The After-School Series, to which i...

Memoirs of the Court of Queen ElizabethLucy Aikin Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth PREFACE In the literature of our country, however copious, the eye of the curious student may still detect important deficiencies.We possess, for example, many and excellent histories, embracing every period...