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Excerpt from The Touch of AbnerA ripple of amusement passed through the assembly, and there were numerous whispered conversations. In. Stead of being very indignant at what Abner had said, all, except Isaac Dimock, were inclined to treat the countryman's cutting words as a joke. They wondered, nevertheless, at the otter he had made of one thousand dollars. The reporter kept steadily on with his writing. Lie was alive to the situation, and chuc...

Excerpt from If Any Man SinFeted by the world, he bowed his head upon the table and gave vent to his feelings in a ¿ood of passionate.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 important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst r...

Excerpt from The Chief of the Ranges: A Tale of the YukonThe crooked river wound its lazy way between gently shelving banks. The pebbles along the shore sparkled like mirrors beneath the sun's bright rays. The whole land stood agleam on this fair summer afternoon in tho far Canadian Northland. Only a gentle whisper rose from the dark forest as the drifting breeze stirred the crests of battalions of rugged spruce and fir trees. The wind, floati...

Excerpt from Glen of the High NorthThese thoughts occupied his mind as he continued on his way. He walked erect now, with shoulders thrown back, and with a more buoyant step than he had taken in many a day. His blood tingled and his eyes glowed with a new-found light. He felt much of the old thrill that had animated him at the beginning of the Great War, and had sent him overseas to take his part in the titanic struggle. An overmastering urge ...

Excerpt from The Frontiersman: A Tale of the Yukon Cold night, he muttered to himself, as he paused to readjust the rope of the small sled he was draw ing, to the right shoulder. Then he glanced back over the trail, and a dark object arrested his attention, drawing nearer and nearer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproductio...

Excerpt from Under Sealed Orders He stood for awhile as if entranced after uttering these mystic words. Then he continued on his way and night wrapped more closely about him her dark mantle. He had to walk very cautiously now for the trail was rough, and there were sharp stones and roots ready to strike his feet and trip him up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.f...

Excerpt from The Unknown Wrestler Here was no room for him on the sidewalk, so he took up his position beyond the curbstone. The light from the large arc-lamp overhead exposed the old man's thin white hair, withered face and threadbare clothes. His sightless eyes were turned toward the passing throng, and his head was slightly bent in an expectant attitude. But the hand that drew the wheezy bow across the strings of the violin often faltered,...

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Excerpt from If Any Man Sin Pest him of a single wrong. How proudly they had looked upon him as he stood before them ere he left. 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 digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - The boy plied his hoe in a listless manner, for his thoughts were elsewhere. Several hundred yards to the right stood the forest, glorious in its brilliant autumn hues. There among those trees the wary partridges were feeding or perching temptingly upon bough, fallen log or ragged s...

Excerpt: ... the beast, and mebbe there's more'n one." "You ought to know, " again came the voice. Perdue was furious. He was about to give vent to his feelings in no uncertain language, when Pritchen laid his hand upon his shoulder. "Be quiet, Jim, and never mind the cur. Let's get on with our job. I choose the parson, " he continued, looking the missionary full in the eyes. Keith started as he heard his name mentioned. He had been standing s...

The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.

A great book by the author of numerous exceptional novels.

A great book by the author of numerous exceptional novels.

A great book by the author of numerous exceptional novels.

Excerpt from Jess of the Rebel Trail HE glowing coals in the spacious grate seemed to fascinate the woman as she sat huddled in a big luxurious chair. The book she had been reading was lying Open and unheeded on her lap. Her surroundings were by no means in keeping with her dejected manner. The room was cosy and lavishly furnished, while the shaded electric reading-lamp cast its gentle radiance upon the woman's white hair and soft evening-gow...

Impossible Performances: Duras as Dramatist argues that Marguerite Duras is one of the most important figures on the landscape of twentieth-century theater. Like Artaud and Beckett, she is exemplary of the most radical inquiry into the limits of performance. Duras used theater against itself and dramatized the failure of mimetic realism to represent the post-colonial, post-atomic moment. Unlike Artaud's and Beckett's, Duras's metaphysics of pe...