tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10430465700405595242024-03-14T08:57:56.376-05:00Free Literary Books for the Kindle (US & UK)Best free and offbeat classic literature for the Kindle. I highlight books that are out of copyright (before 1923), but never out of style! I link to US & UK editions.<center> <br>You can get this Top 100 Amazon blog on your US Kindle at <a href="http://www.KindleClassic.com">www.KindleClassic.com</a><br>or on your UK Kindle at <a href="http://www.kindleclassicuk.com">www.KindleClassicUK.com</a><br><i>RANKED #1 Amazon UK Literature Blogs & #1 Amazon US Lit. Blogs</i></center>Marilyn Litthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05557633582043608297noreply@blogger.comBlogger280125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043046570040559524.post-3756195806596946042014-12-17T21:42:00.001-06:002014-12-17T21:42:11.198-06:00Mr. Midshipman Easy - by Frederick Marryat<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">You can’t get Horatio
Hornblower for free on Amazon, but you may enjoy </span><i>Mr.
Midshipman Easy</i><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">by
Frederick Marryat </span>(<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Midshipman-Easy-Frederick-Marryat-ebook/dp/B0084ALYXK/ref=sr_1_1_twi_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1418872179&sr=1-1&keywords=midshipman+easy">US
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Edition</a>) <span style="color: #222222;">who joined the British Royal Navy himself in 1806. He wrote a
number of novels of which this is one. It is said to be semi-autobiographical,
but I think exaggeration rules the day and the book is a delight!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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on kindle. I thought this book was great, very funny and understated, even if
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;">"As Mr Sawbridge,
the first lieutenant, happened to be going on shore on the same evening for the
last time previous to the ship's sailing, he looked into the Blue Posts,
George, and Fountain Inns, to inquire if there was such a person arrived as Mr
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"Desire him to walk in," said Jack: "and, waiter, mind that the
punch is a little better than it was yesterday; I have asked two more gentlemen
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perceived Jack alone, with the dinner table laid out in the best style for
eight, a considerable show of plate for even the Fountain Inn, and everything,
as well as the apartment itself, according to Mr Sawbridge's opinion, much more
fit for a commander-in-chief than a midshipman of a sloop of war."</span><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No, I am not going to quote the famous first line. You will just have to download a free Kindle edition and read it yourself. But of course I expect you will be re-reading this wonderful novel by Jane Austen <span style="background-color: transparent;">(US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pride-Prejudice-Jane-Austen-ebook/dp/B008476HBM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413604400&sr=1-1&keywords=pride+and+prejudice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edition</a>)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">(UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pride-Prejudice-Jane-Austen-ebook/dp/B008476HBM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1413604459&sr=1-1&keywords=pride+and+prejudice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edition</a>)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not know how many times I have read this favorite of mine, first published in 1813. It is always wonderful to realize how much we have in common with those who lived 200 years ago. If we can laugh at the same things, how different can we be? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are few characters in literature as funny as Mr. Collins who fancies himself a skilled flatterer - adept at correcting any misstep. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The dinner too in its turn was highly admired; and [Mr. Collins] begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellence of its cookery was owing. But here he was set right by Mrs. Bennet, who assured him with some asperity that they were very well able to keep a good cook, and that her daughters had nothing to do in the kitchen. He begged pardon for having displeased her. In a softened tone she declared herself not at all offended; but he continued to apologise for about a quarter of an hour."</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Collins brings <i>me</i> as much pleasure as he does Mr. Bennet!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So immerse yourself once again in the society of the Bennet girls with their interest in balls and the activities of the regiment. And if you are reading this book for the first time, I envy you the pleasure of discovering one of the world's great novels. Great because it is funny, surprising, romantic and up-to-date, all at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have finished the novel called Pride and Prejudice, which I think a very superior work. It depends not on any of the common resources of novel writers, no drownings, no conflagrations, nor runaway horses, nor lap-dogs and parrots, nor chambermaids and milliners, nor rencontres and disguises. I really think it is the most probable I have ever read.</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Still probable after all these years . . . </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"></span>It is increasingly difficult to do this blog. It is very hard to find a free classic book and when I do, it is usually not available in the UK, so I have to start over. Take a look at this listmania list of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Free-Classic-Kindle-Books/lm/R3VFX2KKUAMWBR" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">free classic books</a>. I don't know when the list was created, but every one of these 27 books is no longer available. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is my belief that people who have created inexpensive versions of the classics are tagging the free versions for copyright violations. The tag is bogus, but it serves to remove a free edition and creates a market for the cheapest edition. Amazon does not have time to review all of these tagged books and we are paying for that.</span><br />
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Marilyn Litthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05557633582043608297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043046570040559524.post-47471882687878869062014-08-29T07:10:00.000-05:002014-08-29T07:10:18.562-05:00Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The 1873 novel, Around the World in 80 Days, by French author Jules Verne has been made into a couple of big budget films. They are quite entertaining, but perhaps eclipse the book. This is a neat little band box of a book. It is an entertaining story that would make good vacation reading. (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Around-World-80-Days-ebook/dp/B0083Z6ESG/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1343186310&sr=1-2&keywords=around+the+world+in+80+days/timobrienhomepag" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edition</a>) (<a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Around-World-Days-Jules-Verne-ebook/dp/B0083Z6ESG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1409313756&sr=1-1&keywords=around+the+world+in+80+days" target="_blank">UK Edition</a>) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"I can't believe that a 130+ year old book translated to English was good enough to keep me up half the night but this brilliant old gem did."</span></blockquote>
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1970's.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">It was a collection of short
accounts of railroad tragedies and tragedies averted by heroic children who
flagged down trains.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">That will have to
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pulled up a hundred feet from the burning bridge. It was an old Howe truss, and
snapped like popcorn as the flames bit into the rotten shed. <br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We're up against it, Georgie," cried Francis.
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Would I? Wouldn't I? You know the orders. That bridge
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If you are looking for something lost to time, look no further than the
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres
of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing
generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why
should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not
we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion
by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs? Embosomed for a season in
nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the
powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among
the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of
its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There is more wool and flax in
the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own
works and laws and worship."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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It is difficult to imagine a time when our view was through the eyes of
those who went before. We seem to be
pressing ever forward. We only look back
in nostalgia for those things that brought us pleasure in the past, never for instruction. I speak generally, but I cannot think of a time since Emerson when the present was absorbed
in the past. I think this lack of interest is accelerating. Today the price of antiques
is falling because they are not in fashion anymore. I tutor school children who only learn history in the classroom. It is not learned from the media or their families.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What would Emerson have thought if he knew we were
picking up his essay now to see nature as seen through his eyes? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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books about a post-apocalyptic future also are a part of our past. Follow that? English writer, Richard Jefferies, wrote his
entry in this genre, <i>After London or Wild
England</i>, in 1885. (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/After-London-England-Richard-Jefferies-ebook/dp/B00849PIE2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394592410&sr=1-1&keywords=after+london">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/After-London-Or-Wild-England-ebook/dp/B00849PIE2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1394592502&sr=1-1&keywords=after+london">Edition</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The old men say their fathers told them that soon
after the fields were left to themselves a change began to be visible. It
became green everywhere in the first spring, after London ended, so that all
the country looked alike."</span></span></blockquote>
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readers of Young Adult trilogies. It
takes the form of a journal or history by someone living after the apocalypse
and trying to explain the present and relate it to the past.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Indeed, we have fuller knowledge of those extremely
ancient times than of the people who immediately preceded us, and the Romans
and the Greeks are more familiar to us than the men who rode in the iron
chariots and mounted to the skies. The reason why so many arts and sciences
were lost was because, as I have previously said, the most of those who were
left in the country were ignorant, rude, and unlettered. They had seen the iron
chariots, but did not understand the method of their construction, and could
not hand down the knowledge they did not themselves possess."</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"What was there behind the immense and untraversed
belt of forest which extended to the south, to the east, and west? Where did
the great Lake end? Were the stories of the gold and silver mines of Devon and
Cornwall true? And where were the iron mines, from which the ancients drew
their stores of metal?"</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I
like my history undistilled and that is hard to find. But in <i>A
Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains </i>by English writer Isabella L. Bird comes close. (<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ladys-Life-Rocky-Mountains-ebook/dp/B0082ZD700/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1393902564&sr=1-1&keywords=A+lady%27s+life+in+the+rocky+mountains">US
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Edition</a>) This is a book of edited
letters by a world-class traveler. In
1892, she became the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society. These letters were written 20 years before
that honor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The forest was thick, and
had an undergrowth of dwarf spruce and brambles, but as the horse had become
fidgety and "scary" on the track, I turned off in the idea of taking
a short cut, and was sitting carelessly, shortening my stirrup, when a great,
dark, hairy beast rose, crashing and snorting, out of the tangle just in front
of me. I had only a glimpse of him, and thought that my imagination had
magnified a wild boar, but it was a bear. The horse snorted and plunged
violently, as if he would go down to the river, and then turned, still
plunging, up a steep bank, when, finding that I must come off, I threw myself
off on the right side, where the ground rose considerably, so that I had not
far to fall. I got up covered with dust, but neither shaken nor bruised. It was
truly grotesque and humiliating. The bear ran in one direction, and the horse
in another.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She sounds like the perfect traveling companion, game for
anything and not too full of herself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and unwanted companion who does no work, causes catastrophes and eats more than
his share. Worse, he fancies himself a
writer:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In one there are twenty
lines copied (as Mr. Kavan has shown me) without alteration from Paradise Lost;
in another there are two stanzas from Resignation, with only the alteration of
"stray" for "dead"; and he has passed the whole of Bonar's
Meeting-place off as his own.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the pantry and stealing food.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before the boy came I had
mistaken some faded cayenne pepper for ginger, and had made a cake with it.
Last evening I put half of it into the cupboard and left the door open. During
the night we heard a commotion in the kitchen and much choking, coughing, and
groaning, and at breakfast the boy was unable to swallow food with his usual
ravenousness.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We wish we could visit this wilderness she loved. It is past recovery. At one point she writes of the "slightly musical ring of the
lumberer's axe." If she could visit
today, she might recall the sound as something less lyrical.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Heaven helps those who help themselves” is a well-tried
maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience.
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual;
and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national
vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I never use to credit self-help, but with the passing of
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tell yourself something and why not have a supportive inner self?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Admiral Hobson, who broke the boom at Vigo in 1702, . . .
was working as a tailor’s apprentice
near Bonchurch, in the Isle of Wight, when the news flew through the village
that a squadron of men-of-war was sailing off the island. He sprang from
the shopboard, and ran down with his comrades to the beach, to gaze upon the
glorious sight. The boy was suddenly inflamed with the ambition to be a
sailor; and springing into a boat, he rowed off to the squadron, gained the
admiral’s ship, and was accepted as a volunteer. Years after, he returned
to his native village full of honours, and dined off bacon and eggs in the
cottage where he had worked as an apprentice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the greatest tailor of all is unquestionably Andrew
Johnson, the present President of the United States—a man of extraordinary
force of character and vigour of intellect. In his great speech at
Washington, when describing himself as having begun his political career as an
alderman, and run through all the branches of the legislature, a voice in the
crowd cried, “From a tailor up.” It was characteristic of Johnson to take
the intended sarcasm in good part, and even to turn it to account. “Some
gentleman says I have been a tailor. That does not disconcert me in the
least; for when I was a tailor I had the reputation of being a good one, and
making close fits; I was always punctual with my customers, and always did good
work.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Christmas, I want to present one of Scotland's most beloved classics, <i>Greyfriar's Bobby</i>. This version is by
Eleanor Atkinson, who is a Hoosier from my home state of Indiana. (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Greyfriars-Bobby-Eleanor-Atkinson-ebook/dp/B0082XJMLK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1387738110&sr=1-1&keywords=greyfriars+bobby">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Greyfriars-Bobby-Eleanor-Atkinson-ebook/dp/B0082XJMLK/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1387738222&sr=1-1&keywords=B0082XJMLK">Edition</a>)
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better-behaving and cleaner and happier because they have that wee dog to
love."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There
are few things as endlessly fascinating as life on the Mississippi. I have read many books of life on the river
and <i>Forty Years a Gambler on the
Mississippi</i> by American George H. Devol looks like a good one! (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Forty-Years-Gambler-Mississippi-ebook/dp/B0082WP2WO/ref=sr_1_13?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1379300909&sr=1-13&keywords=12+years+a+slave">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B0082WP2WO/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1">Edition</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1887 memoir is about a
gambler who ran away at an early age:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
next boat I shipped on was the Walnut Hills, at $7 per month. You could hear
her "scape" (whistle) for a distance of twenty miles on a clear day
or night. I would get up early in the morning and make some "five-cent
pieces" (there were no nickels in those days) by blacking boots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I sent and got another keno
set, and opened a bar room, and was making money like dirt, when one day a man
walked in with a bucket of water, and commenced pouring it on one of my
billiard tables that I got in Chicago, and which cost me $500. I walked up to
him and asked him what he was doing? He told me to go to h—l. I let fly, caught
him on the neck, and down he went, and he lay there for some time. Finally they
took him to where he and his wife were stopping, and that night he died. Then I
commenced to think about getting out of that hot box. I got together what money
I could, and carried a canoe to the river, and started for Dubuque. There were
no telegraph lines at that time. I had been there but a few days before the
news came to me that the doctors had held a post mortem examination, and
decided the man had had delirium tremens, and could only have lived a short
time. They sawed open his skull, and found his brain a jelly in the center. So
I went back and found his wife, gave her one of the houses which I had built
and $700 in money.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the winter is hard. Great Britain and
the States are having a miserable winter.
But however "frightful" it is outside your window, you can
always console yourself. You are not
with Napoleon's Army retreating from Moscow!
So stop feeling sorry for yourself and curl up with "Through
Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow" by English
novelist, G.A. Henty. (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Through-Russian-Napoleons-Retreat-Moscow-ebook/dp/B004TQWLMQ/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1386283551&sr=1-2&keywords=Through+Russian+Snows+by+G.+A.+Henty">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Through-Russian-Napoleons-Retreat-Moscow-ebook/dp/B004TQWLMQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386818794&sr=8-1&keywords=Through+Russian+Snows+A+Story+of+Napoleon%27s+Retreat+from+Moscow">Edition</a>)
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BORODINO: Barbarously as the
French army behaved on its advance to Smolensk, things were even worse as they
left the ruined town behind them and resumed their journey towards Moscow. It
seemed that the hatred with which they were regarded by the Russian peasantry
was now even more than reciprocated. The destruction they committed was wanton
and wholesale; the villages, and even the towns, were burnt down, and the whole
country made desolate. It was nothing to them that by so doing they added
enormously to the difficulties of their own commissariat; nothing that they
were destroying the places where they might otherwise have found shelter on
their return. They seemed to destroy simply for the sake of destruction, and to
be animated by a burning feeling of hatred for the country they had invaded. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since the days of the thirty
years' war in Germany, never had war been carried on in Europe so mercilessly
and so destructively.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Henty is, what we would call now, a Young Adult writer. That is a very popular now as it was
then. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Julian had, since their retreat
began, again recovered his spirits. He was now not fighting to conquer a
country against which he had no animosity, but for his own life and that of the
thousands of sick and wounded.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "I am glad that we are in the
rear-guard," he said to a number of non-commissioned officers who were one
evening, when they were fortunate enough to be camped in a wood, gathered round
a huge fire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Why so, Jules? It
seems to me that we have the hardest work, and, besides, there is not a day
that we have not to fight."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> "That is the thing that does us
good," Julian replied. "The columns ahead have nothing to do but to
think of the cold, and hunger, and misery. They straggle along; they no longer
march. With us it is otherwise. We are still soldiers; we keep our order. We
are proud to know that the safety of the army depends on us; and, if we do get
knocked over with a bullet, surely that is a better fate than dropping from
exhaustion, and falling into the hands of the peasants."<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The
English Governess at the Siamese Court: Being Recollections of Six Years in the
Royal Palace at Bangkok" is an 1870 memoir by Anna Harriette Leonowens. (US
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Leonowens was a British woman born in
India, who taught the wives and children of the King of Siam. The memoir was the basis for a 1940's
bestseller, which in turn was the basis for the musical, "The King and
I." So this memoir is twice removed
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book.) "It is difficult to
comprehend how men, not aided by revelation, could have soared so high and
approached so near the truth. Beside the five great commandments,—not to kill,
not to steal, not to commit adultery, not to lie, not to get drunk,—every shade
of vice, hypocrisy, anger, pride, suspicion, greed, gossip, cruelty to animals,
is guarded against by special precepts. Among the virtues commended we find,
not only reverence for parents, care for children, submission to authority,
gratitude, moderation in time of prosperity, resignation and fortitude in time
of trial, equanimity at all times, but virtues unknown to any heathen system of
morality, such as the duty of forgiving insults, and of rewarding evil with
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I was often alone in the school-room, long after my
other charges had departed, with a pale, dejected woman, whose name translated
was "Hidden-Perfume." As a pupil she was remarkably diligent and
attentive, and in reading and translating English, her progress was
extraordinary. Only in her eager, inquisitive glances was she child-like;
otherwise, her expression and demeanor were anxious and aged. She had long been
out of favor with her "lord"; and now, without hope from him,
surrendered herself wholly to her fondness for a son she had borne him in her
more youthful and attractive days. In this young prince, who was about ten
years old, the same air of timidity and restraint was apparent as in his
mother, whom he strikingly resembled, only lacking that cast of pensive sadness
which rendered her so attractive, and her pride, which closed her lips upon the
past, though the story of her wrongs was a moving one." <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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presents of a court with slaves and harsh punishments that appear arbitrary to
our sensibilities.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is the time of year we turn to contemplative spooky literature and what better warm
up than Edgar Allen Poe's epic poem of tortured lost love, <i>The Raven</i>? (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Raven-ebook/dp/B0084B68X0/ref=sr_1_2?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1383188444&sr=1-2&keywords=the+raven">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Raven-Edgar-Allan-Poe-ebook/dp/B0084B68X0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1383188525&sr=1-1&keywords=%22the+raven%22">Edition</a>)
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the family who took him in, and had mixed success in making a living as a
writer. The Raven was very popular, but
he had sold the rights for $9.00. The
poem is probably inspired by the early death of his young wife. Poe didn't live a long life himself. Per Wikipedia: " On October 7, 1849, at
age 40, Poe died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been
variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart
disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents." Whew . . . </span></span></div>
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upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">Over
many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">While
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some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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this, and nothing more.'</span></span></span></blockquote>
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distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">And
each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">Eagerly
I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">From
my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">For
the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -</span></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">Nameless
here for evermore.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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Marilyn Litthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05557633582043608297noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1043046570040559524.post-23142676488799838022013-10-16T00:07:00.000-05:002013-10-17T14:21:03.591-05:00The Fortune of the Rougons - by Emile Zola<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1043046570040559524" name="_GoBack"></a>I wanted to write about Emile Zola's
novel, <i>The Paradise</i>, because I am
really enjoying the TV adaptation. But I
was shocked, shocked to discover no free copies on Kindle! There is a feature on Amazon which readers
can use to alert Amazon to a Kindle edition that violates copyright. It should not apply to the public domain
books that I review. However, I notice
that many of the books I reviewed over a year ago are no longer available. I suspect that publishers of inexpensive
editions report the "free" editions, knowing that they can knock out
the competition. As Amazon makes no
money on the free editions and even loses a small amount on the download, there
is no incentive to hurry up and vet these free editions which are incorrectly reported
as violating copyright. So, no Zola . . .
(US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Fortune-Rougons-ebook/dp/B0084715J6/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&qid=1381879714&sr=8-27&keywords=emile+zola/timobrienhomepag">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Fortune-Rougons-%C3%89mile-Zola-ebook/dp/B0084715J6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1381882425&sr=1-1&keywords=the+fortune+of+the+rougons/1937">Edition</a>) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So we will go with the next best thing, which is the
French writer Zola's 1871 novel, <i>The
Fortune of the Rougons</i>. It is the
first in a series of twenty, but stands on its own!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;">"In
his introduction to the 20th and final novel (DOCTOR PASCAL), Zola specified
the order he intended the series to be read, and it differs greatly from the
order in which the books were written. So, now that you're on the first of
twenty, make a note of the LOGICAL order of the books, and you will enjoy them
much more:</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">1).
THE FORTUNE OF THE ROUGONS); 2) HIS EXCELLENCY or CLORINDA [and so on up to twenty, but we
will stop with two.]</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;">And in
case you were wondering, if this were a single novel, it would be 6,680 pages
long. C'est pas possible!"</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This series
of novels is a very rewarding reading experience, the type of endeavor like
reading Proust that will stay with you your entire life. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The young man was still
gazing anxiously in that direction when, suddenly, one of the town clocks
slowly and solemnly struck seven. He counted the strokes, and then jumped down,
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He seated himself on the
tombstone, like one who is prepared to wait some considerable time. And for
about half an hour he remained motionless and deep in thought, apparently quite
unconscious of the cold, while his eyes gazed fixedly at a mass of shadow. He
had placed himself in a dark corner, but the beams of the rising moon had
gradually reached him, and at last his head was in the full light.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unusual for this blog, I am featuring a newly published book. It is a WWI memoir, "Journal of William Brazear," edited by Margaret Brazear.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(US </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Journal-of-William-Brazear-ebook/dp/B00FHYWMEG/ref=sr_1_44?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1380599341&sr=1-44&keywords=wwi/timobrienhomepag" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edition</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(UK </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Journal-of-William-Brazear-ebook/dp/B00FHYWMEG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1380599392&sr=1-1&keywords=Journal+of+William+Brazear/1937" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edition</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)
This is the edited diary of a British soldier.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The diary begins in 1895 and is unusual in that the soldier was a
prisoner of war.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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then apprenticed. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At the age of fourteen, I
was sent from the home to take a position apprenticed at a cycle works. .
. . Well,
this job nearly broke my heart. I started there on the 9th May 1899 and
managed to stay there until July 1st 1900. During that period my regular
routine was filing brazings in the morning, after doing the housework, and
running with young ladies, learning them to ride in the afternoons. The
result was that I was handsore from the rasp, footsore from running, and
heartsore from the whole thing. Of course I was a bound apprentice and
could not leave easy, so I made up my mind to run away from there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Brazear was regular Army for awhile and in the reserves at the time the war
began.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I was comfortable and
thought I was safe. But wait and see. There was a church about
100 yards in front of my position. The bells were ringing, and the
people were walking towards the church just as if nothing was happening.
Suddenly a shell, either from us or from the Germans, struck the bottom corner
of the church and the whole thing collapsed. Naturally it would when the
foundation had gone. After seeing this, I knew that I was not so safe as
I previously thought.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We entrained at Lauvain
Station. Although we expected to have to walk all the way into Germany,
it appears that by now they had organised a system. While we were
waiting on the platform, I stood against some packages. I had also
organised a system, so with my jack knife I opened one of the cases and I was
not disappointed for I found dog biscuits. I filled my pockets and my
pals emptied the box. They were very acceptable at this time. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Ordeal of Richard Feverel is an
1859 novel by English author George Meredith.
(US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ordeal-Richard-Feverel-History-ebook/dp/B004UJ2RY4/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1379654478&sr=1-4&keywords=The+Ordeal+of+Richard+Feverel/timobrienhomepag">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ordeal-Richard-Feverel-Complete-ebook/dp/B0084AKLX4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1379990930&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Ordeal+of+Richard+Feverel/1937">Edition</a>) One of several candidates for "the first
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Among
the Victorian novelists, George Meredith occupies a place apart. Unlike
Dickens, Thackeray, and Eliot, he appeals to a select few. Those who appreciate
him are folk of his own temper—cultivated, intellectual, urbane. They are
persons of taste and discernment. They are generally the middle-aged rather
than the young. They are those who, aloof and contemplative, relish the comedy
of life, rather than those who throw themselves whole-heartedly into the game.
It is not to be marvelled at, therefore, that Meredith should have won his way
slowly, or that recognition, when it came, should have rendered his position
unique and secure.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would say painting George
Eliot's "Middlemarch" as middlebrow or pop culture is kind of a hard
sell.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, you don't have to
read these sour grapes - just dive into the novel and immediately encounter:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After
five years of marriage, and twelve of friendship, Sir Austin was left to his
loneliness with nothing to ease his heart of love upon save a little baby boy
in a cradle. He forgave the man: he put him aside as poor for his wrath. The
woman he could not forgive; she had sinned every way. Simple ingratitude to a
benefactor was a pardonable transgression, for he was not one to recount and
crush the culprit under the heap of his good deeds. But her he had raised to be
his equal, and he judged her as his equal. She had blackened the world's fair
aspect for him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with any candidate for
first novel, you can expect some oddities in the structure.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A
comrade of some description was necessary, for Richard was neither to go to
school nor to college. Sir Austin considered that the schools were corrupt, and
maintained that young lads might by parental vigilance be kept pretty secure
from the Serpent until Eve sided with him: a period that might be deferred, he
said. He had a system of education for his son. How it worked we shall see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So it seems this is a book
about education . . .<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Out of Mulberry Street Stories of
Tenement life in New York City,</i>
is non-fiction by American Jacob Riis. (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mulberry-Street-Stories-Tenement-ebook/dp/B006QPZVQG/timobrienhomepag">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mulberry-Street-Stories-Tenement-ebook/dp/B006QPZVQG/1937">Edition</a>) I
might have said he was Danish as he was born and grew up in Denmark before
emigrating; but the famous social reformer was American through and through. The account of his many failures, ill-advised
decisions and near starvation before he achieved spectacular success as a
journalist make his Wikipedia biography enthralling reading. Yes, those are words seldom paired - but
someone did a good job there on Riis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It purports to be a series of journalism pieces, but
seems to have been put together as one piece on Christmas in the Bowery. I don't want to mislead you that this is a
Christmas story. In fact he describes a
Jewish wedding. It is just that Riis is
writing at that time of year when so many get the only time they will have off
work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Farthest down-town, where
the island narrows toward the Battery, and warehouses crowd the few remaining
tenements, the somber-hued colony of Syrians is astir with preparation for the
holiday. How comes it that in the only settlement of the real Christmas people
in New York the corner saloon appropriates to itself all the outward signs of
it? Even the floral cross that is nailed over the door of the Orthodox church
is long withered and dead: it has been there since Easter, and it is yet twelve
days to Christmas by the belated reckoning of the Greek Church. </span></span></div>
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houses show no sign of the holiday, within there is nothing lacking. The whole
colony is gone a-visiting. There are enough of the unorthodox to set the
fashion, and the rest follow the custom of the country. The men go from house
to house, laugh, shake hands, and kiss one another on both cheeks, with the
salutation, “Kol am va antom Salimoon.” “Every year and you are safe,” the
Syrian guide renders it into English; and a non-professional interpreter amends
it: “May you grow happier year by year.” <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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unexpected." On the eve of
September 11, my attention turned to New York City in 2001, but this book
written in 1898 has just brought me back to the present day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lady is a 1898 novel by American writer William Dean Howells. </span><o:p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></o:p><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.
(US </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ragged-Lady-Complete-ebook/dp/B0082XUCXC/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1377561404&sr=1-4&keywords=Ragged+Lady/timobrienhomepag" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edition</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(UK </span><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ragged-Lady-Complete-ebook/dp/B0082XUCXC/ref=sr_1_5?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1377561432&sr=1-5&keywords=Ragged+Lady" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Edition</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Or
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It
was their first summer at Middlemount and the Landers did not know the roads.
When they came to a place where they had a choice of two, she said that now he
must get out of the carry-all and ask at the house standing a little back in
the edge of the pine woods, which road they ought to take for South
Middlemount. She alleged many cases in which they had met trouble through his
perverse reluctance to find out where they were before he pushed rashly forward
in their drives. Whilst she urged the facts she reached forward from the back
seat where she sat, and held her hand upon the reins to prevent his starting
the horse, which was impartially cropping first the sweet fern on one side and
then the blueberry bushes on the other side of the narrow wheel-track. She
declared at last that if he would not get out and ask she would do it herself,
and at this the dry little man jerked the reins in spite of her, and the horse
suddenly pulled the carry-all to the right, and seemed about to overset it. <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Oh,
what are you doing, Albe't?" Mrs. Lander lamented, falling helpless
against the back of her seat. "Haven't I always told you to speak to the
hoss fust?" <br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"He
wouldn't have minded my speakin'," said her husband. "I'm goin' to
take you up to the dooa so that you can ask for youaself without gettin'
out."<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will not ask directions!<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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for those who abhor dialect.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a young college
student working his way through school at a hotel. He says he is not interested in girls.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gregory
had an habitual severity with his own behavior which did not stop there, but
was always passing on to the behavior of others; and his days went by in alternate
offence and reparation to those he had to do with. He had to do chiefly with
the dining-room girls, whose susceptibilities were such that they kept about
their work bathed in tears or suffused with anger much of the time. He was not
only good-looking but he was a college student, and their feelings were ready
to bud toward him in tender efflorescence, but he kept them cropped and
blighted by his curt words and impatient manner. Some of them loved him for the
hurts he did them, and some hated him, but all agreed fondly or furiously that
he was too cross for anything. They were mostly young school-mistresses, and
whether they were of a soft and amorous make, or of a forbidding temper, they
knew enough in spite of their hurts to value a young fellow whose thoughts were
not running upon girls all the time. Women, even in their spring-time, like men
to treat them as if they had souls as well as hearts, and it was a saving grace
in Gregory that he treated them all, the silliest of them, as if they had souls.<br /><br /><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Miles
Franklin is the Australian novelist best known for her novel in the style of a
memoir, "My Brilliant Career." <span> </span>(US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Some-Everyday-Folk-Dawn-ebook/dp/B0082VLCPQ/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1373666702&sr=8-1&keywords=Some+Everyday+Folk+and+Dawn/timobrienhomepag">Edition</a>)<span> </span>(UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Some-Everyday-Folk-Dawn-ebook/dp/B0082VLCPQ/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1373666878&sr=8-1&keywords=Some+Everyday+Folk+and+Dawn/1937">Edition</a>
<span> </span>That book is
unfortunately not free in the UK, so instead I am substituting a 1909 novel
published first in the UK with a puzzling name, <span> </span><i>Some
Everyday Folk and Dawn</i>.<span> </span>The book
starts with a dedication:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">"TO THE ENGLISH <b>MEN</b>
WHO BELIEVE IN VOTES FOR <b>WOMEN</b> THIS
STORY IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED, BECAUSE THE WOMEN HEREIN CHARACTERISED WERE
NEVER FORCED TO BE "SUFFRAGETTES," THEIR COUNTRYMEN HAVING GRANTED
THEM THEIR RIGHTS AS SUFFRAGISTS IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 1902."</span></span></span></div>
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followed by a glossary of Australian slang in American equivalents and English
interpretations.<span> </span>This gives us such
helpful information as a bloke is a guy is a fellow.<span> </span>This will help my readers on both sides of
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Having surrendered our tickets and come through a down-hill
passage to the dusty, dirty, stony, open space where vehicles awaited
travellers, the usual corner "pub."—in this instance a particularly
dilapidated one—and three tin kangaroos fixed as weather-cocks on a dwelling
over the way, and turning hither and thither in the hot gusts of wind, were the
first objects to arrest my attention in the town of Noonoon, near the river
Noonoon, whereaway it does not particularly matter. The next were the men
competing for our favour in the matter of vehicular conveyance.</span></span></span></div>
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develops that although the cabbies might be competitive, the boarding house
can't be bothered to take in lodgers and thus begins the protagonist's effort
to switch lodgings. I don't need to tell you it will be a quirky journey.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is becoming
increasingly difficult, once again, to find free books.<span> </span>Several years ago I had the same
difficulty.<span> </span>Books I suggested before,
such as "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," now have their free
versions embargoed for some reason.<span> </span>I
suspect those who sell the same titles are reporting the free titles for some
transgression.<span> </span>During the time it takes
for Amazon to ensure the free title is not a copyright violation, the most
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stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains— the few that there
were— stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by
heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and,
finally, Camlet-on-the-Water. Camlet was where he always got out, leaving the
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"Hullo," she said,
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travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc.</i> This is probably the only
book every written with two etceteras in the title. The book is by Timothy Shay Arthur, an
American writer. (US <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Breadth-Perilous-incidents-travelers-ebook/dp/B004TQIL3E/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1370663840&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=as+Hair+Breadth+Escapes+Perilous+incidents+in+the+lives+of+sailors+and+travelers+in+Japan%2C+Cuba%2C+East+Indi">Edition</a>) (UK <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Breadth-Perilous-incidents-travelers-ebook/dp/B004TQIL3E/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1370663837&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=as+Hair+Breadth+Escapes+Perilous+incidents+in+the+lives+of+sailors+and+travelers+in+Japan%2C+Cuba%2C+East+In">Edition</a>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">This is a non-fiction book published in 1889, a few years
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like non-fiction, but I had to check because he wrote perhaps 100 novels and
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his breeches, which luckily he had put under his pillow. The rest of his own
clothes, and those of his friends, were swimming about the cabin, saturated
with water. Gelid, who during all the tumult had slept soundly, was now awake.
He put one of his legs out of bed, with a view of rising, and plunged it into
the water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Heavens!
Wagtail,” he exclaimed, “the cabin is full of water––we are sinking! Ah! it is
deuced hard to be drowned in this puddle, like potatoes in a tub.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">“Captain, captain,” cried Bangs, looking over the side of
his bed, “did you ever see the like of that? There, just under your light––look
at it; why it’s a bird’s nest, with a thrush in it, swimming about.” “Damn your
bird’s nest,” growled little Pepperpot, “by Jove, it’s my wig with a live rat
in it.”</span></div>
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Dolphin, bound from Jamaica for London, which had already doubled the southern
point of the Island of Cuba, favored by the wind, when one afternoon, I
suddenly observed a very suspicious-looking schooner bearing down upon us from
the coast. I climbed the mast, with my spy glass, and became convinced that it
was a pirate. I directed the captain, who was taking his siesta, to be awaked
instantly, showed him the craft, and advised him to alter our course, that we
might avoid her. The captain, a man of unfortunate temper, whose principal
traits of character were arrogance, avarice, and obstinacy, scorned my counsel,
and insisted that we had nothing to fear, as we were perfectly well protected
by the English flag.</span></div>
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