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The NOVELS OF THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection includes major and minor works from a period which saw the development and triumph of the English novel. These classics were written for a range of audiences and will engage any reading enthusiast. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data...

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Excerpt from The Copper Queen, Vol. 2: A Romance of to-Day and YesterdayEnilda soon found herself a queen in a small sovereignty. Her father had so well prepared the way for her reception, that Gotham's best opened its doors wide to the young stranger. Besides her reputed great wealth, she possessed beauty Of so perfect a type, that in a land Of pretty women it was still only the more remarkable. Her manners were a strange mixture Of western f...

Excerpt from The Copper Queen, Vol. 1: A Romance of to-Day and YesterdayIT was early morning, and the Union Pacific Express was just starting from the Garden City, as Americans call Chicago, the famous western metropolis lying so close upon the border of Lake Michigan, the fairest, bluest, but perhaps most treacherous of all the chain Of great lakes. The train was crowded to over¿owing, and yet there was room for more. An extra sleeper and din...

Excerpt from Victorien Sardou, Poet, Author, and Member of the Academy of France: A Personal Study Although, as I have been assured, the function of blowing ones own trumpet is not absolutely distasteful to some eminent personages in the world of art and letters there are others, to my personal knowledge, who experience an unconquerable reluctance to perform upon that instrument, however importunately they may be solicited to do so by hosts o...

Excerpt from Elisabeth of Roumania: A Study, With Two Tales From the German of Carmen Sylva, Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth Madam, When I began this study the fame of Carmen Sylva - a second sun already risen behind the green Carpathians - was glimmering a bright beacon in the blue Orient. It is not strange that worshippers of nature - light, beauty, and genius - should be attracted by rays thrown so broadcast, and when my revered friend, the ...

Excerpt from Stage-Struck, or She Would Be an Opera-Singer 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 repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an i...

Excerpt from Verdi: Milan and Othello: Being a Short Life of Verdi, With Letters Written About Milan and the New Opera of Othello Represented for the First Time on the Stage of La Scala Theatre, Feb, 5, 1887 When I left England for Italy, you said, Do write me all about Verdi, Milan, and the new Opera Othello. I have taken you at your word, only the letters, like most feminine epistles, have stretched away into limitless pages, and from a few...

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