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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each other's past? Buy the the paper back at Turne...

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...s Note This is a work of fiction. While historical persons do appear within the text, all events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century,... ...l events are of my own imagination. During the 19th century, and for nearly the first half of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vot... ...roper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision of Erik, the Phantom of the Opera. My vision is an amalgam of persons known to a... ... I finished as I braided his mane, “Philippe risked his life to go into the burning barn after Josephine, my mare. He himself was badly injured; the... ...ngs are beautiful, if one only has eyes to see. Philippe died, not from the burns, but from an overdose of laudanum. There’ll never be another for ... ...he would be sorely disappointed. Nothing could frighten me after Philippe’s burns. I turned again to face him. “I am finished, Monsieur. May I retur... ...y torso. Every bruise was besmeared with calendula and each cut daubed with witch-hazel. When Claire finished her doctoring, she insisted that I be...

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...Excerpt: An ancient English cathedral tower? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real ...

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which p...

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...erson. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colors highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for color is a little dull?...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my ey...

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...ve by George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ghter: an Ariel released by Prospero’s wand from the fetters of the damned witch Sycorax. And this laugh- ter of reason refreshed is floriferous, like... ...e. Mrs. Mountstuart signified that the leg was to be seen because it was a burning leg. There it is, and it will shine through! He has the leg of Roch... ...tstuart Jenkinson humbly remarked, in an attitude of penitence, “I’m not a witch.” Lady Busshe could claim to be one; she had foretold the event. Laet... ...ated as clod earth; and it is worth while for here and there a woman to be burned, so long as women’s general adoration of an ideal young man shall be... ...ould he come nigh, to its own furnace-test, and get a clear brain out of a burnt heart. She was frequently at the Hall, helping to nurse Lady Patterne... ...raye crowed cordially. “I’m afraid not, Miss Middleton. One must go to the witches for protection to vases; and they’re all in the air now, having the...

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...ment of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of greater importance in Boswell?s day than now. I have kept in mind an old habit, common enough, I dare say, among its devotees, of opening the book ...

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