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pubOne.info present you this new edition. We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece- the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never...

I desire to state that the initial fact upon which I have founded this story is within my own experience. I travelled from Calais to Basle by the Engadine Express in the latter end of July, 1902, when my wife and myself were the only passengers. The rest is pure fiction....

THE three books gathered under the title "e;In Search of the Castaways"e; occupied much of Verne's attention during the three years following 1865. The characters used in these books were afterwards reintroduced in "e;The Mysterious Island,"e; which was in its turn a sequel to "e;Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. One little picture in this book, the Magic Locket, at p. 77, was drawn by 'Miss Alice Havers.' I did not state this on the title-page, since it seemed only due, to the artist of all these (to my mind) wonderful pictures, that his name should stand...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The determination to found a story or a series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania did not come impulsively to my brother. For many years, in short during the greater part of nearly a quarter of a century of...

One or two friends to whom I showed these papers in MS. having observed   that they were not half bad, and some of my relations having promised to   buy the book if it ever came out, I feel I have no right to longer delay   its issue. But for this, as one may say, public demand, I perhaps should   not have ventured to offer these mere "e;idle...