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pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The plan of this Edition leads me to insert in this place some account of the incidents on which the Novel of WAVERLEY is founded. They have been already given to the public, by my late lamented friend, William Erskine, Esq. (afterwards Lord Kinneder), when...

In this tale I have left the battlefields of history, and have   written a story of adventure in Australia, in the early days when   the bush rangers and the natives constituted a real and formidable   danger to the settlers. I have done this, not with the intention of   extending your knowledge, or even of pointing a moral, although the   story is...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Where the great highway of the Sierras nears the summit, and the pines begin to show sterile reaches of rock and waste in their drawn-up files, there are signs of occasional departures from the main road, as if the weary traveller had at times succumbed to the long ascent, and turned aside for rest and...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Marina, at seventeen, was the most admired beauty in Granada. She was an orphan, and heiress to an immense fortune, under the guardianship of an old and avaricious uncle, whose name was Alonzo, and who passed his days in counting ducats, and his nights in...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. My endeavor has been to tell a simple story, preserving as closely as possible the spirit and feeling of the original. I have tried, as it were, to take the play to pieces, and build a novel out of the same material. I have not felt at liberty to embellish M....

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Russian literature, so full of enigmas, contains no greater creative mystery than Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol (1809-1852), who has done for the Russian novel and Russian prose what Pushkin has done for Russian poetry. Before these two men came Russian literature can hardly have been said to exist. It was...