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Being convinced that his end was nearly come, and having lived long on earth (and all those years in Spain, in the golden time), the Lord of the Valleys of Arguento Harez, whose heights see not Valladolid, called for his eldest son. And so he addressed him when he was come to his chamber, dim with its strange red hangings and aug...
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\"Fame and Fortune,\" like its predecessor, \"Ragged Dick,\" was contributed as a serial story to the \"Schoolmate,\" a popular juvenile magazine published in Boston. The generous commendations of the first volume by the Press, and by private correspondents whose position makes their approval of value, have confirmed the author in his...
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\"Mark, the Match Boy,\" is the third volume of the \"Ragged Dick Series,\" and, like its predecessors, aims to describe a special phase of street life in New York. While it is complete in itself, several characters are introduced who have figured conspicuously in the preceding volumes; and the curiosity as to their future history, wh...
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George Meredith (1828-1909) abandoned the legal profession for journalism and poetry after marrying Mary Ellen Nicolls, a widowed daughter of Thomas Love Peacock. After his wife ran off with the English Pre-Raphaelite painter Henry Wallis, Mereditch's collection of sonnets entitled "Modern Love" (1862) and his first major novel, "The O...
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