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I am in a restless mood to-night. There seems nothing to explain this, except that perhaps I am growing tired of the life I am leading, or it may be that there are influences at work of which I have no cognizance, but which affect my nerves. As I look out of my window I can see storm-clouds driven...

A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843 and illustrated by John Leech. Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, England. His...

Charles Dickens was one of the great pioneers of detective fiction. While the larger-than-life characters in his novels have settled themselves in the public imagination. Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, England. His father, John Dickens, was a clerk in the Navy...

The Great English Short-Story Writers by Charles Dickens. Charles Dickens was born on February 7, 1812 in Landport, Portsmouth, England. His father, John Dickens, was a clerk in the Navy Pay Office at Portsmouth, and his wife Elizabeth Dickens (née Barrow, 1789–1863) was a housewife. In 1814, John...

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens Three Ghost Stories is just that: a collection of three different stories that are true Gothic classics. Charles Dickens was born on February 7,...

He was also given a substance to drink which he was told would bolster his immune system response to the alien materials with which he might come into contact.  He drank the liquid which he said smelled like "pine".  Later that night, he suffered severe abdominal cramps undoubtedly related...

Vaninka by Alexandre Dumas. Alexandre Dumas, pere (French for "father," akin to Senior in English), born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (1802-1870) was a French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him one of the most widely read French authors...

Coming Home 1916 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition . Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. Edith Wharton, née Edith Newbold Jones, (born January...

Madge Sterling did not give the impression of a girl easily daunted. Gazing out across the stretch of ruffled water toward the pine-covered isle which drowsed like a huge green sea turtle in the heat of a midsummer sun, she made a most striking picture. Her auburn hair had been whipped carelessly...

The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction - German - German Fiction Selected by Charles W. Eliot, LL.D. The fact that newspaper reporters commonly call their articles "stories" points to a certain analogy between the novel and the newspaper. Even when prose fiction aims to be a fine art, it readily...

Letters from Switzerland and Travels in Italy: Truth and Poetry: from my own Life Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (born August 28, 1749, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]—died March 22, 1832, Weimar, Saxe-Weimar), German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and...

A young girl in a neat traveling suit of dark blue, alighted from the last car of the long train which had pulled into the Cheltham Bay station and with eager eyes surveyed the crowded platform.

As they were about to turn onto a main highway from a side road near Fort Sumner, they were stopped by a 5-or-6 truck convoy of military vehicles headed northeast at a high rate of speed.  Several were carrying huge wooden crates, some covered with tarps.  A few days later, a famous meteorite hunter...

Referring to this illustration of space/time distortion below, let's assume the red ball 'A' can generate a strong gravitational field and lens that gravitational field or wave in this case.  Lensing a strong wave is sufficient to shoot a vector in any direction and therefore distort space-time in...