In Spite of All:A Novel
Category: Classical Novels Author:novel
Many loved Truth, and lavished life’s best oil Amid the dusk of books to find her.
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Category: Classical Novels Author:novel
Many loved Truth, and lavished life’s best oil Amid the dusk of books to find her.
TAG: Classical
Category: Classical Novels Author:novel
In this story I have touched, very feebly and inadequately, on one of the greatest and saddest of human problems—as great and sad, certainly, as the problem which forms the central purpose of my ‘Shadow of the Sword.’ What the creed of Peace is to the state, the creed of Purity is to the social community.
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Category: Classical Novels Author:novel
In setting down this tale, I will say at the beginning that I am only a sailorman, and rough. Therefore, if I offend, I crave pardon, for my knowledge is only that of the sea, and my manners are ocean-bred. If any one is too delicately constituted to listen to a man like myself, and prefers a tale of gentleness and delicate desire, he ...
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Category: Classical Novels Author:novel
One summer morning, long ago, a small boy guarded his father's sheep on a hillside in the Apennines. Up and down the stony pasture he trod, driving back the lambs who strayed too far, and trying all the while to keep his wayward charges in a group where he could count them from time to time. His chief care was to prevent them from stra...
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Category: Classical Novels Author:novel
IT was shortly after nine o’clock in the morning that young Lord Stranleigh of Wychwood, in a most leisurely fashion, descended the front steps of his town house into the street. The young man was almost too perfectly dressed. Every article of his costume, from his shiny hat to the polished boots, was so exactly what it should he, that...
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