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  Soldiers of the light

  Helen Gray Cone

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  The tramp and the rumble of Longstreet's Corps;The bands were blaring "The Bonny Blue Flag,"And the banners borne were a motley many;And watching the gray column wind and dragWas a slip of a girl—we'll call her Jenny.A slip of a girl—what needs her name?—With her cheeks aflame and her lips aquiver,As she leaned and looked with a loyal shameAt the steady flow of the steely river:Till a storm grew black in the hazel eyesTime had not tamed, nor a lover sighed for;And she ran and she girded her, apron-wise,With the flag she loved and her brothers died for.Out of the doorway they saw her start(Pickett's Virginians were marching through),The hot little foolish hero-heartArmored with stars and the sacred blue.Clutching the folds of red and whiteStood she and bearded those ranks of theirs,Shouting shrilly with all her might,"Come and take it, the man that dares!"Pickett's Virginians were passing through...FROM THE BOOKS.

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  Ozma of Oz - A Record of Her...

  L. Frank Baum

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  A hen and a girl are washed ashore in the land of Ev, where a royal family has been sold to the Nome King and turned into ornaments. Dorothy, Ozma and an army of twenty-six officers and one private go underground to guess which ornament is which. Baum wrote the third Oz book in 1907 after readers refused to let the series stop, and gave it the best villain of the fourteen. Its 99 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.

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  The Decameron

  Giovanni Boccaccio

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  Set against the shadow of the Black Plague, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio is a radiant tapestry of love, wit, tragedy, and the triumph of the human spirit. When Florence is ravaged by pestilence, ten young nobles — seven women and three men — flee to a countryside villa to escape the horrors of the city. Over ten days, they pass the time by telling one hundred stories: tales of romance and folly, devotion and deception, virtue and vice. 
  From the poetic tragedy of “Griselda” to the romantic daring of “Cymon and Iphigenia” and the moral allegory of “The Three Rings,” Boccaccio captures the full spectrum of human experience — earthy, wise, and profoundly moving. 
  Narrated with grace and warmth by Mary Ellin Kurtz, this timeless masterpiece invites listeners into a world where storytelling itself becomes an act of survival — and of joy.

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  The Man Without a Country and...

  Edward Everett Hale

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  A young officer curses his country at a court martial and is sentenced never to hear its name again, spending fifty years at sea under orders that no one mention America to him. Hale wrote it in 1863 as war propaganda and it became one of the most reprinted American stories ever written. This edition adds fifty-eight plates of paintings by Edvard Munch, Charles Fraser, Winthrop Chandler and others, dating from 1776 to 1918.

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  The Model Millionaire

  Oscar Wilde

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  "The Model Millionaire" First published in The World in June 1887. Hughie Erskine is in love and wants to marry, but the girl's father will not allow it, since Erskine has no money. Erskine's friend Alan Trevor is a painter, and he visits him at his studio one day to find him with a pitiable beggar—the model for his painting. Erskine only has one coin, on which he depends for transportation, but he decides he can walk for a couple of weeks and gives the beggar the coin.

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  The Mysterious Card Unveiled

  Cleveland Moffett

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  The Mysterious Card Unveiled by Cleveland Moffett is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within general and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: NO physician was ever more scrupulous than I have been, during my thirty years of practice, in observing the code of professional secrecy; and it is only for grave reasons, partly in the interests of medical science, largely as a warning to intelligent people, that I place upon record the following This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.

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