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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

Excerpt from Kitty Alone: A Story of Three FiresThe sun of summer had blistered the green paint on the table, and persons having leisure had amused themselves with picking the skin off these blisters and exposing the white paint underneath, and then, with pen or pencil, exercising their ingenuity in converting these bald patches into human faces, or in scribbling over them their own names and those of the ladies of their heart. Below the platf...

Eve - A Novel is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these book...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from The Pennycomequicks, Vol. 2 of 3: A Novel Notwithstanding this assurance, Salome remained unshaken in her conviction that the open doorway was due to the neglect of the servant. She knew that in the class of domestics, truth is esteemed too precious to be wasted by telling it, and that the asseveration of a maid charged with misdemeanour is to be read like morning dreams. She did not pursue the matter with the young woman, SO as ...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

Excerpt from Cheap Jack Zita, Vol. 1 of 3 What was the world coming to? The world - the centre of it - the Isle of Ely? What aged man in his experience through threescore years and ten had heard of such conduct before? What local poet, whose effusions appeared in the 'Cambridge and Ely Post, ' in his wildest flights of imagination, conceived of such a thing? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

Excerpt from A Book of the Rhine: From Cleve to MainzHowever Short may be a journey abroad, if we would enlarge our horizon and enrich our minds we must know, not only what to see, but how to see. The world does not begin and end with ourselves. Life is elevated and broadened when peopled with historic reminiscences, and historic reminiscences carry with them a clue to present conditions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of...

Excerpt from Silver Store: Collected From Mediæval Christian and Jewish Mines In a former work, 'Post-Mediæval Preachers, ' the author drew attention to a class of ancient writers who are rarely studied, and whose very names are known only to the book-hunter. From these and kindred sources, and also from the Talmud, the majority of the legends and anecdotes in this volume have been drawn. No apology is offered for introducing them to the pub...

Excerpt from In a Quiet VillageThen the idea took hold that Dan'l was a wise man and could charm, stanch blood by his blessing, drive away warts, cure milk that Would not turn to butter, and counteract ill wishes.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 techno...

Excerpt from Cheap Jack Zita, Vol. 3 of 3 After a night of revelry, the winter morning broke on men lying tipsy or asleep about the smouldering embers of their fire, against the walls of houses, or crowded on the benches and on the stone floor of the Galilee. Every tavern was packed, and many private houses as well. The rioters had demanded admission, and had threatened violence if opposed. Doors had accordingly been opened to them, and they ...

Excerpt from Jacquetta: And Other Stories The river Colne, once upon a time, was seized with the desire of being a second Nile. We are speaking of course of that prehistoric age in which imagination runs riot, and sets down all its fancies as facts. The Nile brings down mud which it deposits over the surface of Egypt, and fertilizes it. Mud! thought the Colne, I can do a neat thing in mud. I can beat the Nile in the amount of slimy material I...

Excerpt from The Pennycomequicks a Novel, Vol. 3 of 3 Philip was restless all that day, after Salome had departed. He had remained at home in the morning to see her off, and he did not return to his work at the factory till after lunch. At the office, he found it impossible to fix his thoughts on the books and letters before him. He was not an imaginative man, but day-dreams forced themselves before him now, between his eyes and his ledger h...

Excerpt from The Pennycomequicks, Vol. 1 of 3: A Novel There is an aboriginal race in Borneo, of which it is said that they dispose of their aged parents and relatives in an interesting, novel, and altogether aboriginal fashion. They courteously, but withal peremptorily, require them periodically to climb trees, and when they are well up and grappling the branches, they shake the trees. If the venerable representatives of the earlier generat...

Excerpt from The Deserts of Southern France, Vol. 2 of 2: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk Plateaux of Ancient Aquitaine Eleanor had been brought up in an unwholesome atmosphere of false sentiment and lax morals, and was reared to look with indifferent eye on the sufferings of humanity, to consider adulation as her due, and warfare as the occupation for men to afford amusement to ladies. The name of Guyenne is a corruption of Aquit...

Excerpt from Old Country Life I remember a stately chateau Of the time Of Louis XIV., tenanted by two charming Old ladies of the ancienne noblesse, with grand historic names - the last leaves that ¿uttered on a great family tree, with roots in the remote past, and they ¿uttered sere to their fall. They walked out every evening in the park attended by their factotum, an old serving-man, who was butler, coachman, gardener, and major-domo. They ...

Excerpt from Historic Oddities: And Strange Events Benjamm Bathurst was the third son Of Dr. Henry Bathurst, Bishop of Norwich, Canon Of Christchurch, and the Prebendary Of Durham, by Grace, daughter Of Charles Coote, Dean of Kilfenora, and sister of Lord Castlecoote. His eldest brother, Herry, was Archdeacon of Norwich his next, Sir James, was in the army and was aide-de - camp to Lord Wellington in the Peninsula. About the Publisher Forgo...

Excerpt from Urith, Vol. 1 of 2 The Cousins, A Lover and his Lass, A Drift, A Bloody Hand, Fixed, Banns 226, In the Porch, Kilworthy, Gathering Clouds, On the Terrace 262 XXVII. Matrimonial Plans, A Widening Of the Rift. 284 Xxix. Cautions. 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 ...