Full Online Books: July 2013

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Crime And Punishment - PART V - Chapter III

PART V - CHAPTER III"Pyotr Petrovitch," she cried, "protect me... you at least! Make this foolish woman understand that she can't behave like this to a...

Long Stories

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The Fox With His Tail Cut Off

A cunning old fox, of plundering habits, Great crauncher of fowls, great catcher of rabbits, Whom none of his sort had caught in a nap, Was finally...

Poems

Jean De La Fontaine

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Sighting Arabia

My heart, that is Arabia, O see! That talismanic sweep of sunset coast, Which lies like richly wrought enchantment's ghost Before us, bringing...

Poems

Cale Young Rice

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Candide: Or, Optimism - Chapter 12. The Adventures Of The Old Woman Continued

CHAPTER XII. THE ADVENTURES OF THE OLD WOMAN CONTINUED"Astonished and delighted to hear my native language, and no less surprised at what this man said,...

Long Stories

Voltaire

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Vegetables - Fiddlehead Ferns - Fiddlehead Salad

1 pound fiddlehead ferns 2 teaspoons sugar 3 tablespoons dark soy sauce 1 1/2 tablespoons sesame oil 1 1/2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar 1 1/2 tablespoons...

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Aunt Charlotte's Stories Of Greek History - Chapter 25. The Two Theban Friends. B.C. 387-362

CHAPTER XXV. THE TWO THEBAN FRIENDS. B.C. 387-362By the peace of Antaleidas things had been so settled that the Spartans had the chief power over Greece,...

Nonfictions

Charlotte M. Yonge

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The World Of Ice - Chapter 25. Escape To Uppernavik...

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE. ESCAPE TO UPPERNAVIK--LETTER FROM HOME--MEETUCK'S GRANDMOTHER--DUMPS AND POKER AGAINFor three long weeks the shipwrecked mariners...

Long Stories

R. M. Ballantyne

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Pasta And Pastasauces - Orrechiette Pasta With Ham And Peas

1 small onion -- chopped 3 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup fresh peas 1/2 cup cooked ham -- julienned 1 cup cream 8 ounces orrechiette pasta --...

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Under The Lilacs - Chapter XIV. SOMEBODY GETS LOST

Putting all care behind them, the young folksran down the hill, with a very lively dog gambollingbeside them, and took a delightfullytantalizing survey...

Long Stories

Louisa May Alcott

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The Water-witch; Or The Skimmer Of The Seas - Chapter 16

Chapter XVI"This will prove a brave kingdom to me; Where I shall have my music, for nothing." Tempest.During the time past in the secret conference...

Long Stories

James Fenimore Cooper

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Unspoken Sermons - Series 1 - The Eloi

SERIES I THE ELOI"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"--ST MATTHEW xxvii. 46. I do not know that I should dare to approach this, of all utterances...

Nonfictions

George Macdonald

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Peg Woffington - Chapter 4

CHAPTER IVTRIPLET, the Cerberus of art, who had the first bark in this legend, and has since been out of hearing, ran from Lambeth to Covent Garden, on...

Long Stories

Charles Reade

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The Practical Joker

Oh what a fund of joy jocund lies hid in harmless hoaxes!What keen enjoyment springsFrom cheap and simple things!What deep delight from sources trite inventive...

Poems

W. S. Gilbert

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The Outdoor Girls Of Deepdale - Chapter 23. The Man's Story

CHAPTER XXIII. THE MAN'S STORYThere was a great splash, and the man disappeared under the water. It all occurred suddenly, and the man must have made up...

Long Stories

Laura Lee Hope

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Helen With The High Hand (2nd Ed.) - Chapter 20. The Flitting

CHAPTER XX. THE FLITTINGBefore the spacious crimson facade of Wilbraham Hall upon an autumn day stood Mr. Crump's pantechnicon. That is to say, it was...

Long Stories

Arnold Bennett

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King Henry Iv Part 2 - ACT II - SCENE IV

ACT II SCENE IVLondon. The Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap.(Enter FRANCIS and another DRAWER.) FRANCIS. What the devil hast thou brought there-apple-johns?Thou...

Plays

William Shakespeare

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"the Rock" In El Ghor

Dead Petra in her hill-tomb sleeps,Her stones of emptiness remain;Around her sculptured mystery sweepsThe lonely waste of Edom's plain.From the doomed...

Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier

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If, After All ...!

This life I squander, hating the long daysThat will not bring me either Rest or Thee,This health I hack and ravage as with knives,These nerves I fain would...

Poems

Richard Le Gallienne

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Sandwiches - Kielbasa On Rye

1 lb. kielbasa cocktail rye bread horseradish with beets or plain horseradish mustard -- your choice Pierce kielbasa all over with the tip of a knife....

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The Titan - chapter IX - In Search of Victory

In the mean time the social affairs of Aileen had been prosperingin a small way, for while it was plain that they were not to betaken up at once--that...

Long Stories

Theodore Dreiser

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Cookies - Sliced - Vanilla Refrigerator Cookies

3 c. flour 1 tsp baking soda 1 tsp. salt 1 c. oleo 2 c. sugar 2 eggs 4 tsp vanilla 4 T. milk Cream oleo and sugar together; add eggs. Mix in flour, soda,...

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The Vision Of Paradise - CANTO XIV

CANTO XIVFrom centre to the circle, and so backFrom circle to the centre, water movesIn the round chalice, even as the blowImpels it, inwardly, or from...

Poems

Dante Alighieri

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Fruit - Blueberry Streusel Muffins

1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup butter, softened 1 egg 2-1/3 cups flour 4 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 cup milk 1 tsp. vanilla extract grated zest of one lemon,...

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The Farmer's Friend

A Great Philanthropist who had thought of himself in connection with the Presidency and had introduced a bill into Congress requiring the Government to...

Short Stories

Ambrose Bierce

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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale Of The Huguenot Wars - Chapter 8. The Third Huguenot War

Before the treaty of Lonjumeau had been signed many weeks, the Huguenots were sensible of the folly they had committed, in throwing away all the advantages...

Long Stories

George Alfred Henty

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Thackeray - Chapter 7. Thackeray's Lectures

CHAPTER VII. THACKERAY'S LECTURESIn speaking of Thackeray's life I have said why and how it was that he took upon himself to lecture, and have also told...

Nonfictions

Anthony Trollope

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The Best Letters Of Charles Lamb - Letter 61 To Letter 70

LETTER LXI TO LETTER LXXLETTER LXI. TO WORDSWORTH. _April 26, 1816. Dear W.,--I have just finished the pleasing task of correcting the revise of the poems...

Nonfictions

Charles Lamb

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Cakesandfrostings - Cake Coffee Hazelnut Cream Ice Box Cake

1 3/4 cups heavy cream 1 Tbs. instant espresso powder 1 Tbs. sugar 44 Nabisco Chocolate Wafers 1/4 cup finely chopped, toasted hazelnuts for garnish 1/4...

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The Octopus: A Story Of California - Book 2 - Chapter 3

BOOK II CHAPTER IIIPresley's room in the ranch house of Los Muertos was in the second story of the building. It was a corner room; one of its windows facing...

Long Stories

Frank Norris

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Klosterheim; Or The Masqne - Chapter 1

CHAPTER IThe winter of 1633 had set in with unusual severity throughout Suabia and Bavaria, though as yet scarcely advanced beyond the first week of November....

Long Stories

Thomas De Quincey

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The Roof Tree - Chapter 13

CHAPTER XIIIThe blossom had passed from the laurel and rhododendron and the June freshness had freckled into rustiness before the day came when Dorothy...

Long Stories

Charles Neville Buck

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Cakesandfrostings - Cupcakes Wicked Witch

1 1/2 c. all-purpose flour 1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1 c. granulated sugar 1/2 c. ( 1 stick)...

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The Hound Of The Baskervilles - Chapter 14. The Hound Of The Baskervilles

One of Sherlock Holmes's defects--if, indeed, one may call it a defect--was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person...

Long Stories

Arthur Conan Doyle

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The Unspeakable Perk - Chapter III - THE BETTER PART OF VALOR

Night fell with the iron clangor of bells, and day broke to theaccompaniment of further insensate jangling, for Caracuna City hasthe noisiest cathedral...

Long Stories

Samuel Hopkins Adams

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Under Two Flags - Chapter XV. "L'AMIE DU DRAPEAU."

"Did I not say he would eat fire?""Pardieu! C'est un brave.""Rides like an Arab.""Smokes like a Zouave.""Cuts off a head with that back circular sweep--ah--h----h!...

Long Stories

Ouida

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The White People - Chapter VI

CHAPTER VII remained in London several weeks. I stayed because the MacNairns were so good to me. I could not have told any one how I loved Mrs. MacNairn,...

Long Stories

Frances Hodgson Burnett

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The Iron Trail - Chapter 20. How Gordon Changed His Attack

CHAPTER XX. HOW GORDON CHANGED HIS ATTACKO'Neil's return to Omar was triumphal. All his lieutenants gathered to meet him at the pier and the sincerity...

Long Stories

Rex Beach

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I'll See About It

MR. EASY sat alone in his counting room, one afternoon, in a most comfortable frame, both as regards mind and body. A profitable speculation in the morning...

Short Stories

T. S. Arthur

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Phineas Redux - Volume 1 - Chapter 22. "Purity Of Morals, Finn"

VOLUME I CHAPTER XXII. "Purity of morals, Finn"Mr. Quintus Slide was now, as formerly, the editor of the _People's Banner_, but a change had come over...

Long Stories

Anthony Trollope

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An Inland Voyage - ON THE WILLEBROEK CANAL

Next morning, when we set forth on the Willebroek Canal, the rain began heavy and chill. The water of the canal stood at about the drinking temperature...

Essays

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Only An Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes - Chapter 12. A Little Difficulty

CHAPTER XII. A LITTLE DIFFICULTYIt has already been said that Godfrey Preston was a conceited and arrogant boy. He had a very high idea of his own importance,...

Long Stories

Horatio Alger

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A Twilight Song

As I sit in twilight late alone by the flickering oak-flame,Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes--of the countless buried unknown soldiers,Of the vacant names,...

Poems

Walt Whitman

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The Heart Of The Hills - Chapter 2

CHAPTER IIOn the other side, too, a similar branch ran down into another creek which looped around the long slanting side of the spur and emptied, too,...

Long Stories

John Fox

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The Tale Of Dickie Deer Mouse - XVI - A LUCKY FIND

XVI - A LUCKY FINDThough Dickie Deer Mouse was shy, he couldn't have been a coward. Forwhen he had reached the end of that first pitch that led into the...

Short Stories

Arthur Scott Bailey

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Old Rose And Silver - Chapter 6. The Light On The Altar

CHAPTER VI. THE LIGHT ON THE ALTAR Colonel Kent had gone away on a short business trip and Allison was spending his evenings, which otherwise would have...

Long Stories

Myrtle Reed

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John Frewen, South Sea Whaler - Book 1 - Chapter 6

BOOK I CHAPTER VIMalie, the supreme chief of the district, was indeed, as Raymond said, one of the most renowned fighters, not only on Upoln, but in all...

Long Stories

Louis Becke

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Middle_eastern - Lamb - Lamb Tagine With Prunes

Yield: 4 Servings 1440 gm Lamb shanks, sawed into 1 -inch pieces 3 med Onions, one peeled and grated, two peeled and thickly sliced 3 tsp Ras El Hanout,...

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