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...l fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the machinations of a sinister cult of Kali; the horrors of the Indian Mutiny: are the themes woven into the rich backcloth of ?THE CURSE OF KALI?. In this turbulent setting are a man and...

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...SSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional.... ...you afraid of the spirits you murder?’ Thuggee: ‘Never, they cannot trouble us.’ Sleeman: ‘And how do they not trouble you?’ Thuggee: ‘Are... ... and I will have to comply to avoid further delay. You lads ride on. Follow the city walls to the North Gate, where I will meet you after making sur... ... John?’ ‘At the end of this road which skirts the lake,’ answered the Scotsman. ‘In fact, in the north of the City. The Residency is, of course, bui... ... down for breakfast. She breakfasted lightly and then made her way to the strange chaatri of the former Khan’s mistress. The door to the little monu... ...usual heavy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather bo... ... gown of heavy oyster satin with its long train was cut skilfully by one of the top couturiers of London to emphasise her superb figure and lovely c... ...s from among the native population. She could even see the attraction of these Eastern women to a Western male - they were so submissive and learned... ...e with me, you may be able to help her, Doctor. She needs a woman’s touch now and, preferably, a Western woman, who would not remind her of her own ...

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

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... The Suffering of Being Kafka 1 st EDITION Sam Vaknin Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovs... ...gelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Short Fiction in English and Hebrew http://gorgelink.org/vaknin/ http://samvak.tr... ...he dead countenance of the introspective. We tiptoed around her and soothingly vilified her former husband to her face. At first, she clung to life... ...e spent most of her time, often napping, in between shifts, in a bed still sweating of its former, now deceased, occupant. Or she would sprawl on a... ...Even at dusk, I found this city languid. All shops were closed. I had a dinner date with a Londoner, a naturalised Iranian oil trader. Throughout t... ... hand like hot potato. We were all invited to her forthcoming wedding. She was to marry a Northern, elder man of means. He will adopt the child, s... ...m water. "Your little sister called" – she told him – "She is inviting us to her wedding up north. She is marrying a wealthy man rather older than h... ...titute of Technology, Haifa. Ph.D. in Philosophy (major: Philosophy of Physics) – Pacific Western University, California, USA. Graduate of numerou... ...nted Canadian Venture Capital Funds in Israel. 1986 to 1987 General Manager of IPE Ltd. in London. The firm financed international multi-lateral co...

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...The history of four terrorist organizations in the Balkans and a general introduction to terrorism and freedom fighting. Also includes essays about religious co-existence in the Balkans and about pathological narcissism as a precursor to terrorism....

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... And Freedom Fighters 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Terrorists and Freedom Fighters II. Macedonia to the Macedonians III. The ... ... they are unprintable..." A.G. Hales reporting about the Illinden Uprising in the London "Daily News" of October 21, 1903 "The Internal Macedo... ...for "not paying taxes". Joined by Turks who escaped the advancing Russian armies in North Bulgaria and by Bosnian Moslems, who fled the pincer movem... ...h the Habsburgs: Bosnia to the latter in return for a free hand in Macedonia to the former. The wily Austro-Hungarians regarded the Serbs as canno... ...tion war against the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pr... ...ainst the Russians and the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The... ...with the proceeds. It started rather innocuously in the hotbed of ethnic unrest, Western Macedonia - telegraph wires were cut, some tax registers... ...he thin pretext of an Albanian uprising. The brotherhood strained in the Treaty of London (May 1913) promptly deteriorated into internecine warfare...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as few words as possible-- pl...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ubject of “The Ambassadors,” which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. Th... ...end’s analysis would most find him; as well as where, for that matter, the former’s whole analytic faculty would be led such a wonderful dance. “The A... ...ntly, “arranged for”; its first appearance was from month to month, in the North American Review during 1903, and I had been open from far back to any... ... speaks at once for itself, and by the time she has dined with Strether in London and gone to a play with him her intervention as a ficelle is, I hold... ... part plunged straight into the current that set from the landing-stage to London; there were others who 22 The Ambassadors had invited him to a trys... ...it—between the voice of Milrose and the voice even of Woollett. It was the former he felt, that was most in the real tradition. There had been occa- s... ... by these occasional stations of relief, traps for the arrest of wandering western airs. Strether, on his side, set himself to walk again—he had his r...

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... In The South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document ... ...he Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document ... ...stared, focused glasses, and wrangled over charts; and the sun was overhead and the land close ahead before we found them. To a ship ap- proaching, li... ...rison in my mind, I was struck to remember the sluttish mounds of turf and stone in which I have sat and been entertained 13 Robert Louis Stevenson i... ...hard for a European to compute. The flying city of Laputa moored for a fortnight in St. James’s Park affords but a pale figure of the Casco anchored b... ...the living. Another superstition I picked up through the troubled medium of Tari Coffin’s English. The dead, he told me, came and danced by night arou... ...dent Polynesian trembled for the fu- ture. We may accept some of the ideas of Mr. Darwin’s theory of coral islands, and suppose a rise of the sea, or ... ...w in a drowsy monotone, now with a menacing swing. The isle lay nearly east and west, barring our advance on Fakarava. We must, therefore, hug the coa... ...rt Louis Stevenson worth a dollar in itself; but the bulletin about my friend in England proved, some six months later, when I got my mail, to have be...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...dith ONE OF OUR CONQUERORS By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I ACROSS LONDON BRIDGE A GENTLEMAN, noteworthy for a lively countenance and a waistc... ... noteworthy for a lively countenance and a waistcoat to match it, crossing London Bridge at noon on a gusty April day, was almost magically detached f... ...he arches of the bridge, breaking to wild water at a remove; and a reddish Northern cheek of curdling pipeing East, at shrilly puffs between the Tower... ...e mood of meditation, to direct his gaze off the bridge along the waterway North-eastward without beholding as an eye the glow of whitebait’s bow-wind... ...ard- ice, he says.’ ‘Oh, be hanged!’ interrupted Fenellan. ‘As much of the former as you like. He ‘s right about our “individualismus” being another n... ... of greensward, all but touching up to the sunset to draw it to the dance. Formerly, in his very early youth, he clasped a dream of gain- ing way to a... ...Law: and he and she awaken unhallowed emotions. Suppos- ing, however, that western men were to de-orientalize their gleeful notions of her, and dis-Tu...

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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagina...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania St... ... have disregarded for eight years, and could disre gard for eighty more. LONDON, JUNE 22, 1850. American Notes – Dickens 3 PREFACE TO THE “CHARLES... ...lithographic plan hanging up in the agent’s counting house in the city of London: that this room of state, in short, could be anything but a pleasant... ... the existence, and the mode and condition of existence, of any thing. The former would have been easy, but very ineffectual; the latter seemed very d... ...otions as deep as those of her child. * * * * * * ‘It has been remarked in former reports, that she can distinguish different degrees of intellect in ... ...amboats and breakings down in coaches were among the least. But, having a western route sketched out for me by the best and kind est authority to wh... ...ge; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes – Dickens... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene...

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... Wars and Empire 2nd EDITION Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Editing and Design: Lidija Rangelovska Lidija Rangelovska A Na... ...es I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire ... ...q as a greater threat to world peace that Iran's nuclear ambitions. The distinction formerly made between the American people and the Bush administr... ... customs is a bad thing." Admittedly, we typically devalue most that which we have formerly idealized and idolized. To the liberal-minded, the Unit... ... 14 percent), in Poland (-7), in the Czech Republic (-6) and even in fervently pro-Western Bulgaria (-4 percent). It rose exponentially in Ukraine ... ...ates throughout Asia Minor, Greece and today's Israel, Palestine, Syria, Egypt and North Africa. As Rome's sphere of interests and orbit of allianc... ...na, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Romania, Greece, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Egypt, North Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. ... ...les. Please add me to the list, Mr. Blair. I believe that the terrorist attacks in London were a desperate and criminal response to your own war cr... ...n Iraq since the American-British led "liberation". Yet, as New-York and Madrid and London can attest, ignoring one's own rules of engagement in war...

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...e by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e added another, which was natural enough though perhaps not noble. “These western cocks have crowed loudly,” we said; “too loudly for the comfort of ... ...ing. I am inclined to think that, did I belong to Boston as I do belong to London, I should share in the feeling, and rave as loudly as all men there ... ...on going to Newport—led thither by the lat- ter reputation rather than the former. As we were still in the early part of September, we expected to fin... ...her lieges would be somewhat startled if it were called otherwhere than in London. It was therefore well done to ask Her Majesty to act as arbiter in ... ...est seen aright. Close to the cataract, exactly at the spot from whence in former days the Table Rock used to project from the land over the boiling c...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up...

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...Excerpt: A young Irish gentleman of the numerous clan O?Donnells, and a Patrick, hardly a distinction of him until we know him, had bound himself, by purchase of a railway-ticket, to travel direct to the borders of North Wales, on a visit to a notable landowner of those marches, the Squire ...

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...gainst German imperialism, but it was a phrase whose chief content was its aspiration. People were already writing in those early days of disarmament and of the abolition of the armament industry throughout the world; they realized fully the element of industrial belligerency behind the shining armour of imperialism, and they denounced the ?Krupp-Kaiser? alliance. But agai...

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