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...COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett acco... ...s, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time int... ... allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus;... ...hear the flute and lyre of the ceramic players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor line. Maybe this is a better theme fo... ... VOICES FROM THE PAST 66 me the poet’s advice to his brother. How history repeats itself! Family problems haven’t changed: this is an earlier... ...sical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. The history of man became an important part of my meditations. Silence and the... ...shepherd, I still follow hills, hills of resurrection they may be. Perhaps history may call me a man of righteousness. Perhaps history may not stop. ...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recreates Sappho in a lyrical account of the life, passion, fears, a...

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...andre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Penns... ...ity. 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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...to endeavor to find out how the Count of Monte Cristo had discov- ered the history of the house at Auteuil. He wrote the same day for the required inf... ...our French grapes are not to be compared, I know, with yours of Sicily and Cyprus, but you will make allowance for our northern sun.” The count bowed,... ...- main faithful to my memory. When I returned she was married. This is the history of most men who have passed twenty years of age. Perhaps my heart w... ...onte Cristo’s ear, “Your advice was excellent,” said he; “there is a whole history connected with the names Fernand and Yanina.” “Indeed?” said Monte ...

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...from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": http://www.ce-revi... ...com http://samvak.tripod.com/after.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Author II. About "After... ...e Author II. About "After the Rain" Containing the United States I. The Roots of Anti-Americanism II. Containing the United States III. Islam... ...t party's mouthpiece People's Daily. Expansionism is an "eternal theme" in American history and a "main line" running through its foreign policy. ... ...agnet, as exclaiming, during the US-Spanish War, that "If you review the commercial history, you will discover anyone who controls oriental trade wi... ...hod of Crusades." This is a patently non-Orthodox, non-Marxist interpretation of history and of the role of the United States - the prime specime... ...anon, the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Turkey. Libya has an observer status and Cyprus and Malta have joined the EU in the meantime. According ... ...ally every other necessity or luxury - into Iraq from Syria, Jordan, Turkey, Iran, Cyprus, and the West Bank. UN reports consistently accuse Iraq o... ...reakdown of reunification talks between the Greek and Turkish-sponsored parties in Cyprus did not help either. Turkey has been allocated $1.1 bil...

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...Jesus of Nazareth, a Biography, by John Mark, recognizes the author of the second Gospel as that John, whose surname was Mark (Acts 15:37), whom Barnabas chose as companion when he sailed for Cyprus on his second missionary journey...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have ap...

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...Prologue: Certain persons have reproached the Author for knowing no more about the language of the olden times than hares do of telling stories. Formerly these people would have been vilified, called cannibals, churls, and sycophants, and Gomorrah would have been hinted at as their natal place. But the Author consen...

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...Contents THE THREE CLERKS OF ST. NICHOLAS ................................................................................. 8 THE CONTINENCE OF KING FRANCIS THE FIRST............................................................ 19 THE MERRY TATTLE OF T...

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...nd T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ublication Droll Stories: Volume Two by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ance and Governor of T ouraine. But this is not the subject of the present history. Now that which concerns the present narrative, is that Ma- dame de... ...en his majesty was getting into bed, Jacques de Beaune narrated to him the history with which you are acquainted. Now Francis the First, who was parti... ...ustria to the House of Hapsburgh. The author of our days, who brought this history to light, although a learned man, has allowed himself to be deceive... ...ce whence it should flow, and that eventually, but for the assis- tance of Cyprus wine, which he had drunk to blind his sight, and his getting under t... ...lords, such as the Marquis de Montferrat, the King of England, the King of Cyprus and Jerusalem, the Court of Provence, lords of V enice, and many Ger...

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...OW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. ................................................................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING?S SWEETHEART ...................................................................................................... 54 THE DEVIL?S HEIR............................

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... or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn?t all the house really, but it?s all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from the front garden....

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