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A delightful love-story, genuinely American in feeling and treatment. The story is stirring, the heroine is ideal. (Summary by the Chicago Tribune, from time of publishing)...

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Romance

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. ?Everyone asks me what I ?think? of everything,? said Spencer Brydon; ?and I make answer as I can--begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn?t matter to any of them really,? he went on, ?for, even were it possible to meet in that stand-anddeliver way so silly a demand on so big a subject, my ?thoughts? would still be almost altogether about something that concerns only myself.? He was talking to Miss Staverton, with whom for a couple of months now he had availed himself of every possible occasion to talk; this disposition and this resource, this comfort and support, as the situation in fact presented itself, having promptly enough taken the first place in the considerable array of rather unattenuated surprises attending his so strangely belated return to America....

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Excerpt: Most of us see some romances in life. In my capacity as Chief Manager of a Life Assurance Office, I think I have within the last thirty years seen more romances than the generality of men, however unpromising the opportunity may, at first sight, seem....

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Excerpt: The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Demetrius and Philo. Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our Generals Ore- flowes the measure: those his goodly eyes That o?re the Files and Musters of the Warre, Have glow?d like plated Mars: Now bend, now turne The Office and Deuotion of their view Upon a Tawny Front. His Captaines heart, Which in the scuffles of great Fights hath burst The Buckles on his brest, reneages all temper, And is become the Bellowes and the Fan To coole a Gypsies Lust. Flourish. Enter Anthony, Cleopatra, her Ladies, the Traine, with Eunuchs fanning her. Looke where they come: Take but good note, and you shall see in him (The triple Pillar of the world) transform?d Into a Strumpets Foole. Behold and see. Cleo. If it be Love indeed, tell me how much. Ant. There?s beggery in the love that can be reckon?d Cleo. Ile set a bourne how farre to be belov?d. Ant. Then must thou needes finde out new Heaven, new Earth. Enter a Messenger. Mes. Newes (my good Lord) from Rome. Ant. Grates me, the summe. Cleo. Nay heare them Anthony. Fuluia perchance is angry: Or who knowes, If the scarse-...

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Table of Contents: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1

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Excerpt: The Shadow Line: A Confession by Joseph Conrad.

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Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slender white arms, and her tight, plain cap tresses of flaxen hair that many a beauty might have envied, was banging a cocoa-nut mat, chanting by way of accompaniment in a sort of cadence--...

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Excerpt: Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. Adam, Sheth, Enosh -- 2. Kenan, Mahalaleel, Jered -- 3. Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech -- 4. Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth -- 5. The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras -- 6. And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah -- 7. And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim....

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This is the fifth of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home. (Summary written by Sarah Jennings.)...

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Adventure, Fiction

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Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

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Excerpt: The Merry Wives of Windsor; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter Justice Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Evans, Master Page, Falstoffe, Bardolph, Nym, Pistoll, Anne Page, Mistresse Ford, Mistresse Page, Simple. Shallow. Sir Hugh, perswade me not: I will make a Star-Chamber matter of it, if hee were twenty Sir John Falstoffs, he shall not abuse Robert Shallow Esquire....

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Table of Contents: The Merry Wiues of Windsor, 1 -- Actus primus, Scena prima., 1 -- Scena Secunda., 7 -- Scena Tertia., 7 -- Scoena Quarta., 10 -- Actus Secundus. Scoena Prima., 13 -- Scoena Secunda., 18 -- Scena Tertia., 24 -- Actus Tertius. Scoena Prima., 26 -- Scena Secunda., 29 -- Scena Tertia., 31 -- Scoena Quarta., 35 -- Scena Quinta., 38 -- Actus Quartus. Scoena Prima., 41 -- Scena Secunda., 43 -- Scena Tertia., 47 -- Scena Quarta., 48 -- Scena Quinta., 50 -- Scena Sexta., 53 -- Actus Quintus. Scoena Prima., 54 -- Scena Secunda., 55 -- Scena Tertia., 55 -- Scena Quarta., 56 -- Scena Quinta., 56...

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Excerpt: Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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Excerpt: Waverley or ?Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott.

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Excerpt: The Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.

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Introduction: On February the first 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by collision with a derelict when about the latitude 1' S. and longitude 107' W. On January the Fifth, 1888--that is eleven months and four days after--my uncle, Edward Prendick, a private gentleman, who certainly went aboard the Lady Vain at Callao, and who had been considered drowned, was picked up in latitude 5' 3 S. and longitude 101' W. in a small open boat of which the name was illegible, but which is supposed to have belonged to the missing schooner Ipecacuanha....

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There are two parts to the work that happens through the human body; the gross part is the external activity, and the subtle part is the antahkaran. When circumstantial evidences come together, then the mind gets involved in thoughts and shows various pamphlets, and based on that, the chit shows a variety of photos, and the intellect gives a decision which the ego endorses. Without the ego, no work can be accomplished. The mind-intellect-chit-ego perform their role, and ‘we’, the pure Soul, should remain in ‘our’ role. ‘Our’ role is Gnata-Drashta (Knower-Seer); just to ‘see’ and ‘know’, not interfere. In reality, the Self does not interfere; the discharge ego interferes. In that, if the awakened One does not sign, then it is not considered as interference. The extraordinary spiritual science of how to experience the taste of liberation by swa-purushartha in not signing with the discharge ego, is revealed in absolutely revered Dadashri’s speech. ...

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Who knows the true meaning of love? What people refer to as love in the worldly life is actually attraction. Real love is that which does not increase or decrease. From where is this real love acquired? The answer is, from the Ones who have become the embodiment of love, the Vitarags (fully enlightened Lords), the Gnanis (the Ones who have realized the Self and are able to do the same for others). Pure love is referred to as divine love, in which there is no attachment abhorrence, no divisiveness, no expectations, no demand, no attraction or sexuality; there is exclusively selfless love, only purity, oneness, flawless vision, and solely the intent of salvation of others. It prevails for the entire world, for every living being; it flows without any bounds. Absolutely revered Dadashri is such an embodiment of love. Whosoever comes into the acquaintance of the expansiveness of the manifest Paramatma ‘Dada Bhagwan’, experiences awe along with natural obeisance from the heart. ...

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What must be the primary goal of married life? It should be to complement one another and achieve the ultimate goal of a human life of attaining the bliss of liberation. In order to attain liberation, ideal worldly interactions are necessary. Revered Dadashri says that worldly life and ‘files’ do not obstruct liberation, but one’s own weakness in awareness obstructs. Worldly interactions are already unfolding on the basis of Scientific Circumstantial Evidences, then how can faults of the other person be pointed out? Worldly interactions should be filled with love, where there is no weakness of attraction, expectation, insistence, or blaming. There is no anger-pride-deceit-greed or sexuality. There is only pure love. And for this, in the worldly life, a one can follow the Agna (the five directives that sustain the state of the Self), to conduct such ideal worldly interactions that do not hurt any living being; this is the progress as the Self (Purusharth) towards liberation. ...

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On account of the merit karma of countless past lives, we have attained the Knowledge of the Self (Gnan) in this time cycle with the grace of Akram Vignani absolutely revered Dada Bhagwan (Dadashri). After taking Gnan, the ‘plant’ of jagruti (awareness as the Self) needs to be given water and fertilizer in the form of satsang; then the plant will grow. This satsang will end all the internal turmoil, whereas kusang (company that leads one away from the Self) gives rise to internal turmoil. Dadashri says to decide on two goals in life: the first is to live in this worldly life such that no one gets hurt, and the second is to always remain in satsang after attaining Self realization from the living Gnani Purush. After attaining Self-realization, Mahatmas should spend their life according to the Gnani’s dictates, to remain in the vicinity of the Gnani (such that his vision falls on us). Satsang is the oxygen to live as the Self. ...

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In the arrangement of ideal worldly life, when man and woman become united through the knot of marriage, they become partners in the pleasure and pain of the worldly life, Despite living together, there will be a variety in their line of thought and unfolding karma. In such circumstances, keeping patience with equanimity during each other’s unfolding karma, there should be an endeavor to live an ideal life using an understanding-filled approach. Dadashri says that worldly life or relationships do not hinder us, but one’s own lack of understanding, ignorance, and the lack of skill to understand others, is indeed what hinders us. Dadashri says that if you want to get rid of the discord in married life, it is important to let go of the belief that you are a husband (patipanu) or wife (patnipanu), and become friends with each other. A perfect friendship-filled interaction is the master key to get rid of discord from married life. ...