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A second volume of short stories and poetry translated from the Hebrew.

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...lish and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tripod.com/sipurim.html Poetry of Healing and Abuse http://samvak.tripod.com/contents.h... ...m Revisited http://samvak.tripod.com/ Created by: Lidija Rangelovska, Skopje REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S Short Fic... ... C O N T E N T S Short Fiction A Beheaded Cart Language of Black and Red On the Bus to Town The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man ... ...own The Butterflies are Laughing The Con Man Cometh Janusz Courts Dinah My Affair with Jesus The Last Days The Future of Madeleine The Out Kid Pierre'... ...r would exit the house and head towards the miniature plot of garden adjoining it. He would cross the patch, stepping carefully on a pebbled path in... ... strongbox in our room. He pleadingly commands me: "No matter how much I beg and threaten, order or cajole – do not be tempted to obey me. Do not b... ... And then: "Go get the money from the safe." But then he had instructed me to ignore such orders. Using my method, I have doubled our funds and mo... ...den days, ten years ago, when a woman was a woman and he was a proper man with eyes to look dames over and legs to chase them. Maurice isn't good at... ...ropinquity by Sam Vaknin Hemmed in our bed, in moist propinquity, 'tis night and starry and the neighbourhood inebriated, in the vomitar...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. In the time before steamships, or then more frequently than now, a stroller along the docks of any considerable sea-port would occasionally have his attention arrested by a group of bronzed mariners, man-ofwar?s men or merchant-...

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...lassics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...sics Series Publication Billy Budd by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ...splanted from the provinces and brought into competition with the highborn dames of the court. But this change of cir- cumstances he scarce noted. As ... ...ible to that poetic reproach just alluded to, may yet on behalf of the new order, be disposed to parry it; 17 Herman Melville and this to the extent ... ...would control it. In the navy he was popularly known by the appella- tion- Starry Vere. How such a designation happened to fall upon one who, whatever... ...n a domestic heaven nursed, Under the discipline severe Of Fairfax and the starry Vere.” And so, upon embracing his cousin fresh from Rodney’s great v... ...e, his bias was toward those books to which every serious mind of superior order occupying any active post of authority in the world naturally in- cli...

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Excerpt: The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott.

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...n by Sir Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ... invitation was gratefully accepted. Richard, in the meantime, gave secret orders to his marshal that he should repair to the prison, select a certain... ...s it were a tender chick, To see how the others will like.’ “This horrible order was punctually executed. At noon the guests were summoned to wash by ... ...unawares. If a knight’s personal beauty was praised, even the most prudish dames of the military court of England would make an exception in favour of... ...this insolent knight-errant, who can be so easily persuaded that high-born dames may need the use of his insolent and overweening valour.” “It were bu... ...her or her monarch?” “I have looked forth from my mountain turret upon the starry host of heaven, as each in his midnight circuit uttered wisdom to an...

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Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

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...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................

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...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ................................................... 175 BOOK 3.V . TERROR THE ORDER OF THE DAY ............................................................. ...yle Nevertheless in all human movements, were they but a day old, there is order, or the beginning of order. Consider two things in this Sahara-waltz ... .... Where Mother Duchess now sits, authentic Duchesses have sat. High-rouged dames went once in jewels and spangles; now, instead of jewels, you may tak... ...scry—whom thinkest thou?—the Heroines of the Insurrection of Women. Strong Dames of the Market, they sit there (Theroigne too ill to attend, one fears... ...which men name Hell! Does the Empire of Impos- ture waver? Burst there, in starry sheen updarting, Light- rays from out its dark foundations; as it ro...

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...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ... by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...the line that settled in Andalusia, Deigo de Cervantes, Com- mander of the Order of Santiago, married Juana Avellaneda, daugh- ter of Juan Arias de Sa... ...id for them. By the time the book appeared he had left Spain, and, as fate ordered it, for twelve years, the most eventful ones of his life. Giulio, a... ...and ivy, wherewith they went as bravely and becomingly decked as our Court dames with all the rare and far-fetched artifices that idle curiosity has t... ... the flying nymph shall in his swift natural course have twice visited the starry signs. And thou, O most noble and obedient squire that ever bore swo... ...tection of women of all sorts, especially widowed, wronged, and distressed dames, such as her ladyship seems to be.” On hearing this Trifaldin bent th...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... ... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...ashore. They seemed to endeavor to conceal themselves behind the whale, in order to avoid being seen by us.” Cook’s Voyages. “The larger whales, they ... ...uniper wood, and some other articles of the same nature in their boats, in order to terrify and prevent their too near approach.” Uno Von Troil’s Lett... ...ed up, with rose water snow. The starred and stately nights seemed haughty dames in jewelled velvets, nursing at home in lonely pride, the memory of t... ...ingly lifted by your subject,can you fail to trace out great whales in the starry heavens, and boats in pursuit of them; as when long filled with thoug... ...ts glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion. And as those ancient dames moved about gaily, though in the jaws of the whale, as you may say; e...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...cott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...the long avenue is obstructed by a copse, within which the roads meet at a cross-ways, in the centre of which stands a stone obelisk, for all the worl... ... whiter than the silk, whiter than the lilies at her feet, whiter than the starry jas- mine that climbed the balustrade,—a woman, a Frenchwoman born i... ...p and broad; his head has a leonine aspect, his voice is of those that can order a charge in the thick of battle; but he has nothing more than the cou... ...ve forty thousand, do you let me go ahead of you?” All the world knows the order which the Emperor sent to his lieutenant by M. de Sainte-Croix, who s... ...e high-road, seeing her from afar, might have thought her one of Watteau’s dames. In her salon, hung with red damask, with curtains of the same lined ...

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Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

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...Contents The Translator?s Original Dedication to the Countess Granville. ..................................................................................... 17 Original Preface. .........................................................

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...The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classic... ... Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pe... ...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...aced in the present volume. A sketch of the life of Goethe is prefixed, in order that the reader may have before him both the Poet himself and the Poe... ...irst publication being given, when that of the composition is unknown. The order of arrangement adopted is that of the authorized German editions. As ... ...ght, And many a woman dear. Henceforward shall his image fair Stand in yon starry skies, And, ever mild and gracious there, 59 Goethe Alternate set a... ...ld man yonder!” “All hail, ye noble lords to-night! All hail, ye beauteous dames! Star placed by star! What heavenly sight! Whoe’er can tell their nam... ...ecting Joy the voyage through, as on the morn of sailing, And the earliest starry nights so radiant. 231 Goethe But by God-sent changing winds ere lo...

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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, t...

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Excerpt: The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley ... ...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the public conveyances. The gossips of the neighborhood concluded that in order to conceal from others the amount of his fortune, he invested it hims... ..., were in keeping with the character of his food. The old woman had strict orders never to spend more than three francs daily for the total expenses o... ...her parents, prevented her from making a single objection; it did not even cross her mind to think that she had been disposed of without reference to ... ...community followed the case with deep atten- tion. While the more virtuous dames of the department at- tributed the wearing of pumps on a muddy road (... ...ique sat down on the bench of the chalet, amid this beauteous scene of the starry night. The murmur of two voices and the footfall of two persons stil...

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...ted by Alexander Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsy... ...nder Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...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... ... near the river Meles in Boeotia, whither Critheis had been transported in order to save her reputation. “At this time,” continues our narrative, “the... ...was ever one. It were idle and foolish to shake the contents of a vase, in order to let them settle at last. We are perpetually labouring to destroy o... ... deep expanded lie; The eternal columns which on earth he rears End in the starry vault, and prop the spheres). By his fair daughter is the chief conf... ...ill all thy stores in waste decay. T rue, Greece affords a train of lovely dames, In wealth and beauty worthy of our flames: But never from this noble... ...nd, a bevy of bright damsels shone. They seek the cisterns where Phaeacian dames Wash their fair garments in the limpid streams; Where, gathering into...

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Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

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...POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...POEMS, IN TWO VOLUMES VOL. II. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ... ...ems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ..., in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...h lies dead and still, Behold yon Prisoners three! The Miller with two Dames, on the breast of the Thames; The Platform is small, but there’s ro... ... His daily Teachers had been Woods and Rills, The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills. In him the savage... ...ight Look round her when the heavens are bare; Waters on a starry night Are beautiful and fair; The sunshine is a glor... ...nd strength of arm.” The people of the neighbourhood of Loch Ketterine, in order to prove the extraordinary length of their Hero’s arm, tell you that ... ...ther materials sold by Thomas Earl of Thanet. We will hope that, when this order was issued, the Earl had not consulted the text of Isaiah, 58th Chap....

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Excerpt: In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after read...

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