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The Hitler File : A Novel of Fact

By: Sam Vaknin

...r your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … ... ...l Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world over – now … THE HITLER FILE Israel Sarid Roth is the... ...e Holocaust, the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in motion only so late in World War II? • Why did the Nazi SS work hand-in-glove with Zi... ...caust, the mass extermination of Europe’s Jews, set in motion only so late in World War II? • Why did the Nazi SS work hand-in-glove with Zionist ... ...azed at the screen as the text document unwound itself, page by flickering page. I leaned forward: “It’s an interview … It’s the transcript of ... ...hoarse: “It’s an interview with Gestapo Mueller.” “Interview with Mueller?” – I had hoped for more – “He must have given many of them in his c... ... survivors, ashen residues of that great conflagration, the Holocaust. After the War, they met as two near-skeletons in a DP camp - that’s a Disp... ...es. But they were also involved in money counterfeiting, stolen art dealing, drugs, weapons, and other illicit activities. The received opinion is t... ...war in Europe. We could not allow the Soviets to lay their hands on advanced German weapons technologies and intelligence assets.” He pondered so...

...What was in Hitler's personal file kept by the Nazi Party's own intelligence agency, the SD? Israel Sarid Roth, only son of two survivors of the Holocaust is about to find out, as a routine assignment in Jerusalem plunges him into the center of a deadly nightmare....

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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

... 1 Antonio Mercurio THE MYTH OF ULYSSES AND SECONDARY BEAUTY ... ... 2 Copyrighted material Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Copyrignt 2009 by SOP... ...from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I have translated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned transla... ..........40 5 Forward This book was developed from a paper I wrote for Russian and Baltic country psychologists. They had come to It... ...e Artistic I comes forth, and creates beauty for itself and for the whole world. What we mean by immortal is the I that is born as a mortal, and... ... the goddess of wisdom, thus creating beauty for himself and for the whole world. (In the poem the Odyssey, Athena intervenes to help Ulysses 48 tim... ... Sparta. But for how long? With Ulysses’ cunning and the strength of their weapons, the Greeks managed to overcome Troy’s high walls and conquer the ... ...olve the problem of how to save beauty with the use of cunning, deceit and weapons. Ulysses understood this in the very moment he proposed to make t... ...ced to. (see The Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology). When after ten years of war and innumerable deaths on the battlefield Troy is conquered, and the ...

...This book was developed from a paper I wrote for Russian and Baltic country psychologists. They had come to Italy to the Institute in Ascoli Piceno, which is a member of the Sophia University of Rome, to participate in a seminar on Sophia- Art and Cosmo-Art. Th...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 ―. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS‖ --In Search of Utopia— Book 4 A Look at Human Values 1 ―. . . ... ........................................................................ 169 WAR OR PACIFISM .............................................................. ...oint ................................................... 396 QUESTIONS OF WAR .......................................................................... ... --―Good morning Commander. Did you have a restful night?‖ ---―I slept well, Dr. Wang. I‘m still getting used to these earthly beds. When ... ... and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these air flotation ma... ...human values really fascinates me. The most important discussions in this world are about values of one sort or another. My friends and I once share... ...ety?‖ --―I hate to say it but I do. Being invited to speak around the world and teaching in major universities makes me feel that I am important... ...gave to the world were that it was to stop terrorism and to eliminate the weapons of mass destruction. But it hugely increased terrorism and there w... ... of mass destruction. But it hugely increased terrorism and there were no weapons of mass destruction. ―People‘s beliefs are seldom totally...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

... “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book One Touch Down Return to Earth “. . . And ... ......................................................... 36 BUILDING A BETTER WORLD ...................................................................... ...er engraved in the minds of humanity. “This is Chet Rowland of World News on the California desert where we have just witnessed the fin... ...couple of questions that the waiting world wants to know.” -- Sure, but I only have a minute” —“Have you found suitable potential homes for the ... ...id? And were you lonely?” —“Like my famous ancestor, the first Gulliver, I lusted for adventure. But the adventure into the unknown world by his ... ...er-mad leaders and the universal propensity to prepare for and recover from war. Plato’s city-state and Bacon’s island state were too small to be us... ...re monetary goals while the taxes rose to take care of the education of the war babies. The 60s saw an increase in the cold war between the East and ... ...ere were more people, there were more total deaths. “Thanks to better weapons, the psychotic warlords of the last century were incredibly effe... ...ent method of doing it. But then that would hurt the economy if the world’s weapons dealers had no one to sell to!” —“Commander, are you sure tha...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book III : A Visit to Kino

By: Bob Oconnor

... 1 . “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 3 My Visit to Kino A Modern Sino-Provin... ...HOOD .................................................................. 63 WORLD LEADERSHIP ............................................................ ...ational Airport to touch down in Jingjing, the capitol of Kino. From what I had remembered as a boy, Kino was a province of China but in the late 9... ...uickly and find solutions to problems that work in a modern and globalized world. Kino, as a new country, didn‟t have to endure the probl... ...e the problems that plagued China during the 1900s. There were 40 years of war then 40 years of backward moving communism. But China is now making t... ...a population crisis out of control. It had more than a billion people when I left Earth but it halved its yearly population increase. Here in Kino t... ...ves, but I wondered. The president informed me that they had not yet had a war and that in Kino they were keeping their 7 armed forces at a minim... ...he areas of global warming and desalinization. We also do some research on weapons, particularly lasers and satellites. We let the British, Germans a... ...fe on earth more of a possibility. And of course we have to have defensive weapons. ―We realize that not everyone will be happy with our na...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...e Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...are saying each to one another, “Pray come to me and see for yourself that I am very much the human stuff that you are. Come and see that I am doing m... ...uch the human stuff that you are. Come and see that I am doing my best—and I think that is not so very bad a best….” And with that is something else s... ...d say that this war is Queer. It is not like any- thing in a really waking world, but like something in a dream. It hasn’t exactly that clearness of l... ...it has the quality of wholesome instinct struggling under a nightmare. The world is not really awake. This vague appeal for explanations to all sorts ... ... war has depended largely upon two factors. One of these is invention. New weapons and new methods have become available, and have modified tactics, s... ... Without these provisions it would be merely preventing the use of certain weapons; it would be doing nothing to pre- vent countries strangling or suf...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Uto... ...S POWER ................................................................................................................................... 41 WAR AN... ... 5 Meeting Dr. Chan —―Good morning gentlemen. I want... ... meet you Dr. Chan. Wanda Wang suggested that we meet you when we were in Singaling.‖ —―Glad to meet you all. Please just call me Chuck. I know... ...robots who can be programmed by behaviorist planning -- like so many rats in a maze. ―Oh, if I only had infinite knowledge and could tell the world ... ...unlike the ‗hard‘ sciences, our variables are nearly infinite. But not as infinite as the possibilities expressed by the many religions of the world.... ...Let‘s look at the case for some vitamins. ―The Danes found that when they sold butter to other countries during and after the World War. ... ...d violence sure sells in films, on TV and in computer games. Have we always been so violent or are the media pushing us that way? Or is it the weapon... ...ith our family and neighbors. But that is not enough today. The Internet, cell phones, television, CNN, a globalized economy, the existence of weapon...

...Table of Contents IN THE HOTEL 8 LOOKING FOR HAPPINESS 10 WE MUST THINK MORE DEEPLY—AND UNDERSTAND OUR THINKING 20 OUR BASIC ASSUMPTIONS 24 -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF OUR VALUES -- 24 SELF-CENTEREDASSUMPTIONS 32 GODBASEDASSUMPTIONS 41 C...

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The Vatican Conspiracy

By: Jonathan Cross

...l chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows acr... ..., “you’ve got a full schedule today. By the way,” his voice rising slightly, “I should warn you that Cardinal Berini is on the warpath again. I hear... ...aid, removing his glasses and motioning him toward a chair next to his desk, “I want to talk to you.” The Pope’s usually robust and eager mood, to... ... newspapers ran bold headlines declaring the end of the Catholic Church as the world knew it. Cardinal Berini was furious, and made it known to every... ...hairman of the Armed Services Committee he controlled the purse strings of the world's most sophisticated Army. An Army designed to protect a Nation;... ... 22 J.Cross/Artemis Artemis thought for a long time before speaking. "A war on drugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No... ...ugs!" he said vehemently, pounding the top of his desk. "No, Senator. Not a war. There have been too many wars." "Father, I appreciate your senti... ...d to the crude: C-4, dynamite, nitro, or any untraceable explosives, plus any weapons that you may need. My laboratories can produce any form of exp... ...ain. Within twenty seconds it was done. Only a few bullets from the soldiers’ weapons penetrated the ceiling as they fell lifeless. Soule’ hurried ...

...The Pope receives a vision that includes the names of four men: a U.S. Senator, a covert military intelligence agent, a priest from a small parish, and the head of the Italian mafia. These men form an alliance to eliminate the drug cartels of the world to save the children of...

...Pope Francis lithely entered into the small chapel next to his private quarters. The dark chapel was dimly lit by a row of flickering votive candles that cast a soothing splay of shadows across the ancient altar. The Pope knelt his thin, angular body before it; his white cassock cascaded across the red, soft cushion. He gently entwined the eb...

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Hypotheses on Ulysses

By: Antonio Mercurio

... 2 Published by The SOLARIS INSTITUTE of The SOPHIA UNIVERSITY OF ROME. (S.U.R.) Creative Commons Licence -... ...dyssey is the greatest love story that has ever been told in the history of world literature. It is based not on love and death (like the love betwee... ...from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I have translated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned transla... .................................................................. 11 CHAPTER I: BEYOND THE SIEGE AND THE RETURN, OR THE ROAD TO IMMORTALITY ACCORDI... .............................. 230 CHAPTER XLV: CHARYBDIS AND THE FIG AS THE WORLD’S AXIS ................................................ 240 CHAPTER... ...n imprisoned by it (e.g. Helen’s beauty, that causes an atrocious ten year war and innumerable deaths between the Achaeans and the Trojans; the Sire... ...’s poem. When Homer speaks of Helen’s beauty, of the beauty of Achilles’ weapons forged by Hephaestus, of Aphrodite’s beauty who betrays her lame ... ...s, of Aphrodite’s beauty who betrays her lame husband with Ares the god of war, and of Penelope’s beauty that is sought after by 108 suitors, he is ... ...beauty, contrary to the first Homer, who in the Iliad honors the beauty of weapons and of glorious death in battle. Homer is also saying, betwee...

...“The Odyssey is not an adventure story. It is, rather, a book of wisdom that explains the art of humanity’s journey toward becoming artists of life and of the life of the universe. It tells the tale of a love story that is based on love as a decision and as a project. It is not a tale o...

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Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

By: Steven David Justin Sills

...ter and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a ... ...ishing that he had been born a woman; and except for once of saying, "Well...I understand, but" (and stopping not knowing what to throw in as the "but... ...had hesitated feebly. The coarse words and tone had surprised both of them. "I hear that doctors can now make a man half pigeon if he dares to have a ... ...e aged man gave Sang Huin a look as if he had wasted his time talking to the world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem... ...e on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world. Even though he cared about family (what was left of it with both h... ...red an article he had forgotten to bring to them: the Taliban's restraint of war ravaged widows from work. The doctors liked such things. As Dr. Lee ... .... The hail seemed to her like the bullets that she imagined from the distant war that America wedged against Iraq. Then he saw the antithesis of this:... ...th the environment and Islamic extremists; more and more societies possessed weapons of mass destruction that had the potential force that was beyond ... ...ed innate aggression behind terms like axis of evil, rogue country harboring weapons of mass destruction, links to Al Queida, and liberation for the I...

...rean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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Twilight in Italy

By: D. H. Lawrence

...s Series Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ... open, grassy road, holding a shadow and a mystery under its pointed hood. I was startled into consciousness one evening, going alone over a marshy pl... ...n the feet of the Christ a handful of withered poppies. It was the poppies I saw, then the Christ. It was an old shrine, the wood-sculpture of a Bavar... ...ards the culmination and the southern slope, the influence of the educated world is felt once more. Bavaria is remote in spirit, as yet unattached. It... ...the New Testament it is a Dove. And there are, standing over the Christian world, the Churches of the Dove and the Churches of the Eagle. There are, m... ... spiritual love. In marriage, husband and wife wage the subtle, satisfying war of sex upon each other. It gives a profound satisfaction, a profound in... ...d or by a child—she dare not go alone, afraid of the strange, terrible sex-war between her and the drunken man—is seen leading home the wine- drunken,... ...lack and abandoned. Some strange will holds the women taut. They seem like weapons, danger- ous. There is nothing charming nor winning about them; at ...

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Why We Are at War

By: Woodrow Wilson

... Wilson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...s Series Publication Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Why We Are at War by Woodrow Wilson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...ident of the United States. *Harper & Brothers’ note. 4 Why We Are at War I A WORLD LEAGUE FOR PEACE Message to the Senate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN... ...t of the United States. *Harper & Brothers’ note. 4 Why We Are at War I A WORLD LEAGUE FOR PEACE Message to the Senate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF ... ...ate January 22, 1917 GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE: On the 18th of December last I addressed an identic note to the Governments of the nations now at war, r... ...e discussion of the international concert which must there- after hold the world at peace. In every discussion of the peace that must end this war it ... ...t aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity, and because it had no weapons which it could use at sea except these, 24 Why We Are at War which... ... enemy shall not have in his possession at any time or place any firearms, weapons, or implement of war, or component parts thereof; ammunition, Maxim...

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The War in the Air

By: H. G. Wells

...ir by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the ... ...-up of civilization is inevitable. It is chaos or the United States of the World for mankind. There is no other choice. Ten years have but added an en... ...ague to Enforce Peace. K. 4 The War in the Air THE WAR IN THE AIR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF PR CHAPTER I: OF P... ..., rather. It’s been the salvation of them gas compa- nies.” “Larst Satiday I got three barrer-loads of gravel off my petaters,” said Mr. T om Smallway... ...ng-point. Each power sought to keep its preparations se- cret, to hold new weapons in reserve, to anticipate and learn the preparations of its rivals.... ...iated her international outlook pro- foundly. With the coming of these new weapons her collec- tive intelligence thrilled with the sense that now her ...

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The World Set Free

By: H. G. Wells

...ree by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...es. The World Set Free was written under the immediate shadow of the Great War. Every intelligent person in the world felt that disaster was impending... ... must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in An... ...r example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I sup- pose a desire not to shock the sceptical reader’s sense of use and w... ...the particular case of The World Set Free there 4 The World Set Free was, I think, another motive in holding the Great War back, and that was to allo... ...rrestrial career we find him supplementing the natural strength and bodily weapons of a beast by the heat of burning and the rough implement of stone.... ...stematic dis- covery in which we live. They did not very greatly alter the weapons and tactics of warfare, the methods of agriculture, seamanship, the...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...s ies ies ies Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...university. War and Peace by Leo T olstoy/T olstoi BOOK ONE: 1805 CHAPTER I “WELL, PRINCE, so Genoa and Lucca are now just fam- ily estates of the Bu... ..., so Genoa and Lucca are now just fam- ily estates of the Buonapartes. But I warn you, if you don’t tell me that this means war, if you still try to d... ...though, with the quickness of memory and perception befitting a man of the world, he indicated by a movement of the head that he was considering this ... ...the mainte- nance of the balance of power of Europe, and it would save the world!” “But how are you to get that balance?” Pierre was beginning. At tha... ...fficers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed till its ... ... gal- loping. Rostov heard the thud of their hoofs and the jingle of their weapons and saw their horses, their figures, and even their faces, more and...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...13-20 SECOND EPILOGUE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of th... ...ion War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace – Epilogues One and Two by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...y. 3 Tolstoy War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813-20 CHAPTER I SEVEN YEARS HAD PASSED. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subs... ...ook place at that time in Russia also, and the chief culprit was Alexander I, the same man who according to them was the chief cause of the 4 War and... ...ions with all the crowned heads of Europe. The discred- ited rulers of the world can oppose no reasonable ideal to the insensate Napoleonic ideal of g... ...es when the justification is no longer needed, and displaying to the whole world what it was that people had mistaken for strength as long as an unsee... ... Pierre himself wanted to change his mind she would fight him with his own weapons. Thus in a time of trouble ever memorable to him after the birth of...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ...) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 BOOK I INTRODUCTION Among the notable books of later times-we may say, with- out... ...r the student of history or psychology, but for the intelligent man of the world. Its startling frankness gives it a peculiar interest wanting in most... ...which o’er them shed tears feelingly and fast. “His life was one long war with self-sought foes, Or friends by him self-banished; for his mi... ... notions and ways of promulgating them, and accordingly took up his wonted weapons—sarcasm and ridicule—against poor Jean-Jacques. The quarrels of the... ...against you: so do you come to me. My states offer you a peaceful retreat. I wish you well, and will treat you well, if you will let me. But, if you p... ...eir felicity, it was the foundation of all my misfortunes. I came into the world with so few signs of life, that they entertained but little hope of p... ...is, my conduct was pre- determined, I was resolved not to return. Madam de War- rens, seeing her endeavors would be fruitless, became less explicit, a...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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The First Men in the Moon

By: H. G. Wells

...ries Publication The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Cavor at L or at L or at L or at L or at Lympne ympne ympne ympne ympne AS I SIT DOWN to write here amidst the shadows of vine- leaves under the blue ... ...after all, the outcome of the purest accident. It might have been any one. I fell into these things at a time when I thought myself re- moved from the... ... gone to Lympne because I had imagined it the most uneventful place in the world. “Here, at any rate,” said I, “I shall find peace and a chance to wor... ... this principle to guns and ironclads, and all the material and methods of war, and from that to shipping, locomotion, building, every conceivable for... ...spread- ing, until one vast, stupendous Cavorite company ran and ruled the world. And I was in it! I took my line straight away. I knew I was staking ... ... them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way. Old passions and new weapons— now it upsets your religion, now it upsets your social ideas, now ... ...hey were perhaps six feet long, with shaped handles, very tempting-looking weapons. The whole place was lit by three transverse streams of the blue fl... ...ese moon people; it will only spread warfare and multiply the occasions of war. In a little while, in a very little while, if I tell my secret, this p...

...Excerpt: As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of Mr. Cavor was, after ...

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Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare

... Coriolanus by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...CENE: Rome and the neighborhood; Corioli and the neighborhood; Antium. ACT I SCENE I: Rome. A street. [Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with ... ...street. [Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons .] First Citizen : Before we proceed any further, hear me speak.... ... Let us revenge this with our pikes, ere we become rakes: for the gods know I speak this in hunger for bread, not in thirst for revenge. Second Citiz... ...r Beneath abhorring. What would you have, you curs, That like nor peace nor war? the one affrights you, The other makes you proud. He that trusts t... ... You have fought together. MARCIUS: Were half to half the world by the ears and he. Upon my party, I’ld revolt to make Only my wars... ...s pleased to let him seek danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel war I sent him; from hence he returned, his brows bound with oak. I tell... ...der like percussion of thy sounds, Thou madst thine enemies shake, as if the world Were feverous and did tremble. [Re enter MARCIUS, bleeding, assault... ...eize him, AEdiles! Citizens: Down with him! down with him! Senators, &C : Weapons, weapons, weapons! [They all bustle about Coriolanus, crying .] ‘...

...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. A street. [Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.] First Citizen: Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. All: Speak, speak. First Citizen: You are all resolved ra...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...lassics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence 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... ...ortunity university. Contents Contents Contents Contents Contents CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: CHAPTER I: THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BL ... ...X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: CHAPTER X: THE THE THE THE THE W W W W WAR A AR A AR A AR A AR AGAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN GAIN ............................ .... 286 286 286 286 286 4 Aaron’s Rod Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I THE BL THE BL THE BL THE BL THE B... ... and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christ- mas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace.... ...rsation or not?” asked the doctor. “I do indeed, all the difference in the world—T o me, there is no greater difference, than between an educated man ... ...—Instead of thinking of the children, instead of thinking of improving the world you live in—” “We hang on, British bulldog breed,” said Brewitt. Ther... ... the 185 D. H. Lawrence noise of their voices was like a jarring of steel weapons. Aaron wondered what they wanted. There were no women—all men—a str...

...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that ev...

...Contents CHAPTER I: THE BLUE BALL ..............................................................................................4 CHAPTER II: ROYAL OAK..............................................................................................

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