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Filipino Popular Tales

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 The folk-tales in this volume, which were collected in the Philippines during the years from 1908 to 1914, have not appeared in print before. They are given to the public now in the hope that they will be no mean or uninteresting addition to the volumes of Oriental M?rchen already in existence. The Philippine archipelago, from th...


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Tom Pagdin, Pirate

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The Broadstream punt was grating gently on the pebbles at the South Side. Morning, gowned in silver grey, with trimmings of gold, still slept voluptuously on her divan in the Orient East. The mists were slowly lifting from the river, but hung yet lovingly along the creeks and upon the reedy lagoons.


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An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids

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 In the happy days when we were young, no description conveyed to us so complete an idea of mysterious reality as that of an Oriental city.  We knew it was actually there, but had such vague notions of its ways and looks!  Let any one remember his early impressions as to Bagdad or Grand Cairo, and then say if this was not so.  It was p...


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In a Syrian Saddle

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Life is, in many respects, made very easy in the Holy Land. You can return home in the afternoon with no anxious forebodings as to how much waste of time is awaiting you in the shape of cards and notes on the hall table; you may wear clothes for covering, you may eat for nourishment; without taking thought for fashion in the one case, ...


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Over the River

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Clare, who for seventeen months had been the wife of Sir Gerald Corven of the Colonial Service, stood on the boat deck of an Orient liner in the River Thames, waiting for it to dock. It was ten o’clock of a mild day in October, but she wore a thick tweed coat, for the voyage had been hot. She looked pale — indeed, a little sallow — but...


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Zanoni

Category: Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton 

One of the peculiarities of Bulwer was his passion for occult studies. They had a charm for him early in life, and he pursued them with the earnestness which characterised his pursuit of other studies. He became absorbed in wizard lore; he equipped himself with magical implements,— with rods for transmitting influence, and crystal ball...


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The Golden House

Category: Author:Charles Dudley Warner 

It was near midnight: The company gathered in a famous city studio were under the impression, diligently diffused in the world, that the end of the century is a time of license if not of decadence. The situation had its own piquancy, partly in the surprise of some of those assembled at finding themselves in bohemia, partly in a flutter...


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Gitanjali

Category: Author:Rabindranath Tagore 

The 1913 Nobel Prize for literature awards conference, a poetry anthology become judges scramble to read the works, the committee to vote in the proportion of men will be the Nobel Prize awarded to the author of poetry, this is also the first time the college of liberal arts Sweden will be a Nobel Prize awarded to a the children of the...


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Decline and Fall

Category: Author:Evelyn Waugh 

Decline and Fall is a novel by the English author Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1928. It was Waugh's first published novel; an earlier attempt, entitled The Temple at Thatch, was destroyed by Waugh while still in manuscript form. Decline and Fall is based in part on Waugh's undergraduate years at Hertford College, Oxford, and his ...


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