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  Tower of Ivory - A Munich Singer...

  Gertrude Atherton

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  John Ordham, a young Englishman in Munich, falls under the spell of Margarethe Styr, the singer the whole city worships in the years when Wagner had hardly a foothold outside Germany — while other people make quite other plans for him. Atherton knew the Munich of the opera house and the court at first hand and wrote it with an outsider's precision; the book is about what art demands of the artist, and what a great name demands of the man who inherits it. Fifty-three plates, among them Hampstead Heath views by John Constable, trace the landscapes and city streets that frame this story of art, ambition, and the pull of place.

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  The Mutiny Of The Elsinore

  Jack London

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  Life has lost its savor for Mr. Pathurst. New York, fame, women, and the arts have all become tedious. Searching for excitement, he books passage on a cargo vessel sailing from Baltimore to Seattle on a route that travels around the treacherous Cape Horn. Pathurst encounters more than he ever expected in rough seas, turbulent storms, and a mutinous crew. His epic struggles aboard the sailing ship Elsinore have given him a new love for life, but will he survive to profit from it?

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  The Balloon-Hoax

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Balloon-Hoax" is the title used in collections and anthologies of a newspaper article by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1844 in The Sun newspaper in New York. Originally presented as a true story, it detailed European Monck Mason's trip across the Atlantic Ocean in only three days in a gas balloon. It was later revealed as a hoax and the story was retracted two days later.
  The story now known as "The Balloon-Hoax" was first printed in The Sun newspaper in New York. The article provided a detailed and highly plausible account of a lighter-than-air balloon trip by European balloonist Monck Mason across the Atlantic Ocean taking 75 hours, along with a diagram and specifications of the craft.

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  The Mudfog Papers

  Charles Dickens

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  Dickens parodies the proceedings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science with these records of "The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything" and its delightful professors Snore, Doze, and Wheezy. Originally published monthly in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837-38, "The Mudfog Papers" makes use of Parliamentary reports, memoirs, and posthumous papers, as did Dicken's earlier comic success, "The Pickwick Papers."

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  Mesmeric Revelation

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Whatever doubt may still envelop the rationale of mesmerism, its startling facts are now almost universally admitted. Of these latter, those who doubt, are your mere doubters by profession—an unprofitable and disreputable tribe. There can be no more absolute waste of time than the attempt to prove, at the present day, that man, by mere exercise of will, can so impress his fellow, as to cast him into an abnormal condition, of which the phenomena resemble very closely those of death, or at least resemble them more nearly than they do the phenomena of any other normal condition within our cognizance; that, while in this state, the person so impressed employs only with effort, and then feebly, the external organs of sense, yet perceives, with keenly refined perception, and through channels supposed unknown, matters beyond the scope of the physical organs; that, moreover, his intellectual faculties are wonderfully exalted and invigorated; that his sympathies with the person so impressing him are profound; and, finally, that his susceptibility to the impression increases with its frequency, while, in the same proportion, the peculiar phenomena elicited are more extended and more pronounced.

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  The Little Governess

  Katherine Mansfield

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  "The Little Governess" is a 1915 short story by Katherine Mansfield. It was first published in Signature on 18 October 1915 under the pen name of Matilda Berry, and later reprinted in Bliss and Other Stories. The text is written in the modernist mode, without a set structure, and with many shifts in the narrative.
  After receiving advice from the lady at the Governess Bureau, a young and naive English governess (referred to throughout as "the little governess") is off on the train from France to Munich, from where she will go to a new house for work. The governess has never been abroad before, and is duly forewarned of the dangers by the lady at the Governess Bureau, who tells her to "mistrust people at first". She is harassed by a porter on the way to her train, and once aboard, by a group of rowdy French men.

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