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Emerson Hough The Mississippi Bubble

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Englisch
96857 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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The speaker cast upon the cloth-covered table a singular object, whose like none of those present had ever seen. They gathered about and bent over it curiously. "This is that America," the speaker repeated. "Here you have it, barbaric, wonderful, abounding!" With sudden gesture he swept his hand among the gold coin that lay on the gaming table. He thrust into the mouth of the object before him a handful of louis d'or and English sovereigns. "There is your America," said he. "It runs over with gold. No man may tell its richness. Its beauty you can not imagine." [mehr]

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Gaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera By Gaston Leroux

Belletristik
Englisch
85384 Wörter
Keine Altersempfehlung
140
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In which the author of tis singular work informs the reader how he acquired the certainty that the opera ghost really existed The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom; that is to say, of a spectral shade. [mehr]

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Lafcadio Hearn Two Years In The French West Indies (Fiscle Part-VI)

Reise
Englisch
125521 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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During A Trip To The Lesser Antilles In The Summer Of 1887, The Writer Of The Following Pages, Landing At Martinique, Fell Under The Influence Of That Singular Spell Which The Island Has Always Exercised Upon Strangers, And By Which It Has Earned Its Poetic Name,--_Le Pays Des Revenants_. Even As Many Another Before Him, He Left Its Charmed Shores Only To Know Himself Haunted By That Irresistible Regret,--Unlike Any Other,--Which Is The Enchantment Of The Land Upon All Who Wander Away From It. So He Returned, Intending To Remain Some Months; But The Bewitchment Prevailed, And He Remained Two Years. [mehr]

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R.M. Ballantyne The Gorilla Hunters (Fiscle Part-X)

Architektur
Englisch
97406 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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It Was Five O'clock In The Afternoon. There Can Be No Doubt Whatever As To That. Old Agnes May Say What She Pleases--She Has A Habit Of Doing So--But I Know For Certain (Because I Looked At My Watch Not Ten Minutes Before It Happened) That It Was Exactly Five O'clock In The Afternoon When I Received A Most Singular And Every Way Remarkable Visit--A Visit Which Has Left An Indelible Impression On My Memory, As Well It Might; For, Independent Of Its Singularity And Unexpectedness, One Of Its Results Was The Series Of Strange Adventures Which Are Faithfully Detailed In This Volume. [mehr]

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Gilbert Parker The Judgment House (fiscle Part-11-of 1)

Recht
Englisch
82481 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
1

The Music Throbbed In a Voice Of Singular And Delicate Power; The Air Was Resonant With Melody, Love And Pain. The Meanest Italian In the Gallery Far Up Beneath The Ceiling, The Most Exalted Of The Land In the Boxes And The Stalls, Leaned Indulgently Forward, To Be Swept By This Sweet Storm Of Song. They Yielded Themselves Utterly To The Power Of The Triumphant Debutante Who Was Making "Manassa" The Musical Feast Of The Year, Renewing to Covent Garden A Reputation Which Recent Lack Of Enterprise Had Somewhat Forfeited. [mehr]

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Gilbert Parker The Judgment House (fiscle Part-11 Of 2)

Recht
Englisch
69980 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
1

The Music Throbbed In a Voice Of Singular And Delicate Power; The Air Was Resonant With Melody, Love And Pain. The Meanest Italian In the Gallery Far Up Beneath The Ceiling, The Most Exalted Of The Land In the Boxes And The Stalls, Leaned Indulgently Forward, To Be Swept By This Sweet Storm Of Song. They Yielded Themselves Utterly To The Power Of The Triumphant Debutante Who Was Making "Manassa" The Musical Feast Of The Year, Renewing to Covent Garden A Reputation Which Recent Lack Of Enterprise Had Somewhat Forfeited. [mehr]

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George Gissing The Odd Women (fiscle Part-11 of 2)

Familie und Partnerschaft
Englisch
56683 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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Mrs. Cosgrove Was A Childless Widow, With Sufficient Means And A Very Mixed Multitude Of Acquaintances. In the General Belief Her Marriage Had Been A Happy One; When She Spoke Of Her Deceased Husband It Was With Respect, And Not Seldom With Affection. Yet Her Views On The Matrimonial Relation Were Known To Be Of Singular Audacity. She Revealed Them Only To A Small Circle Of Intimates; Most Of The People Who Frequented Her House Had No Startling theories To Maintain, And Regarded Their Hostess As A Good-Natured, Rather Eccentric Woman, Who Loved Society And Understood How To Amuse Her Guests. [mehr]

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Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont The Exploring Expedition To The Rocky Mountains Part 2 (Of 2)

Kurzgeschichte
Englisch
111215 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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5Th.--Before Us Was Evidently The Bed Of The Lake, Being A Great Salt Marsh, Perfectly Level And Bare, Whitened In Places By Saline Efflorescences, With Here And There A Pool Of Water, And Having The Appearance Of A Very Level Seashore At Low Tide. Immediately Along The River Was A Very Narrow Strip Of Vegetation, Consisting Of Willows, Helianthi, Roses, Flowering Vines, And Grass; Bordered On The Verge Of The Great Marsh By A Fringe Of Singular Plants, Which Appear To Be A Shrubby Salicornia, Or A Genus Allied To It. [mehr]

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Alexandra Kuprin Yama (The Pit)

Historisches
Englisch
124590 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
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"With Us, You See," Kuprin Makes The Reporter Platonov, His Mouthpiece, Say In yama, "They Write About Detectives, About Lawyers, About Inspectors Of The Revenue, About Pedagogues, About Attorneys, About The Police, About Officers, About Sensual Ladies, About Engineers, About Baritones--And Really, By God, Altogether Well--Cleverly, With Finesse And Talent. But, After All, All These People Are Rubbish, And Their Life Is Not Life, But Some Sort Of Conjured up, Spectral, Unnecessary Delirium Of World Culture. But There Are Two Singular Realities--Ancient As Humanity Itself: The Prostitute And The Moujik. And About Them We Know Nothing, Save Some Tinsel, Gingerbread, Debauched depictions In literature..." [mehr]

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Paul Cameron Brown The Rake's Progress

Lyrik und Poesie
Englisch
534 Wörter
Ab 18 Jahren
2
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I borrow De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater, the aforementioned an account of that singular Oriental vice, whereupon misplacing the volume in transit from the checkpoint, I attempt to capsulize the book's misadventures only to suffer taciturnity on the part of the staff until, the duplicity of a continued numbers game in Chinese wearing thin and with lassitude similar to the opium habit, the Chief Librarian, a girl herself of Eastern domesticit greets my queries with hushed tones and solemnity akin to a leering Siamese or bedridden Cheshire cat. [mehr]

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