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Excerpt from Joan Brotherhood: A NovelThat might cost him Sixpence, a consideration he had known to affect him in odd times of his past. Now his rent-roll was eight or ten thousand a year, and yet the matters of to-day had no concern for him. Only for his weary mind be eternally sought the stimulant of the unexpected - a near futile quest for one of his experience.He battled his way forward, hardly knowing when he had entered the high town. Th...

Excerpt from The FabulistsPicture to yourself a waste of troubled sea, grey green as ploughed stubble, and, sown all over with white bosses like scattered stones. The wind is southerly and vicious, the Sky stoops torn and low. Away there over the long Bill of Portland stretches a tiny streak, whose ashen under-shadows half Obscure, half reveal, a populous city Of battleships, as unsubstantial in seeming as lightning-charged clouds. But long ag...

Excerpt from At a Winter's FireIt was the toothed summit of the Aiguille Verte, now prosaically bathed in the light of the full moon, but to me, looking from that grim and passionless hollow, it stood for the white hand of God lifted in' menace to the evil spirits of the glen.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an importa...

Excerpt from The Theatre, Vol. 15: A Monthly Review of the Drama, Music, and the Fine Arts, January to June, 1890As a gust more furious than its fellows swept down the Strand, flushing its side-alleys like a wave of water, the door of a private house in Norfolk Street banged to, and a woman ran out into the storm. The wind caught her long fur boa, and writhed it aloft like a wisp of cotton, but despite its lashing across her eyes so as to blin...

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It so fell that one dark evening in the month of June I was belated in the Bernese Oberland. Dusk overtook me toiling along the great Chamounix Road, and in the heart of a most desolate gorge, whose towering snow-flung walls seemed -- as the day sucked inwards to a point secret as a leech's mouth -- to close about me like a monstrous amphitheater of ghosts. . . .Bernard Edward J. Capes is generally remembered as a writer of eerie fiction, and,...

Excerpt from A Castle in Spain: Being Certain Memoirs, Thus Entitled, of Robin Lois, Ex-Major of His Majesty's 109th Regiment of FootI wanna being taken, when a little boy, into Barker's Panorama Rooms in Leicester Square, and there, mounting to a platform from thrilling glooms, seeing, suddenly stretched before my amazed vision, waves and rocks and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from A Castle in Spain: Being Certain Memoirs, Thus Entitled, of Robin Lois, Ex-Major of His Majesty's 109th Regiment of FootI wanna being taken, when a little boy, into Barker's Panorama Rooms in Leicester Square, and there, mounting to a platform from thrilling glooms, seeing, suddenly stretched before my amazed vision, waves and rocks and.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. F...

Excerpt from Adventures of the Comte De La Muette During the Reign of TerrorHis dry lips vibrated, he danced up and down like a gnat on a window-pane. All the time the women were volubly chattering and the men curs ing and pulling. They desired, it seemed, a prologue to the second act of the tragedy, and that was bad art. But then they were as drunk as one could wish.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare an...

Excerpt from Our Lady of DarknessAnd that you have come to, I presume. Go to the Low Countries, i' Gad's name, and find your level there! I'll give you fifty recommendations, and trust to procure you a year's hospitality from each. Only, one word in your ear, Ned: if you bring back a prig to wife, I'll hev the two of ye poisoned, if I hang for it.The nephew condescended to a smile of some amused toleration.About the PublisherForgotten Books pu...

Excerpt from The Extraordinary Confessions of Diana PleaseF the public seeks any apology for this introduction to it, at a late date, of the extraordinary woman whose self dictated Memoirs form the staple of the following pages, it must look for it in the references of her contemporaries, it will be far from gathering it from her own autobiography.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

Excerpt from The Extraordinary Confessions of Diana PleaseF the public seeks any apology for this introduction to it, at a late date, of the extraordinary woman whose self dictated Memoirs form the staple of the following pages, it must look for it in the references of her contemporaries, it will be far from gathering it from her own autobiography.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Fin...

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A collection of rare horror stories that will thrill fans of classic writers such as M. R. James, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe and E. F. Benson.

Excerpt from Joan Brotherhood: A Novel That might cost him Sixpence, a consideration he had known to affect him in odd times of his past. Now his rent-roll was eight or ten thousand a year, and yet the matters of to-day had no concern for him. Only for his weary mind be eternally sought the stimulant of the unexpected - a near futile quest for one of his experience. He battled his way forward, hardly knowing when he had entered the high town...

Excerpt from Gilead Balm, Knight Errant: His Adventures in Search of the Truth He ever thoughtofmoney, it was asthegolden keytothecomplexheartoftheworld. Itwashis custom, during the luncheonbour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to dig...

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bTitle:/b The Lake of Wine.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial ad...