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Flor del fango


José María Vargas Vila - 1895
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The Romance of Judge Ketchum


Horace Annesley Vachell - 1895
    

Wrecked But Not Ruined


R.M. Ballantyne - 1895
    If you like to read about this area you will find lots in this book to amuse you. (Excerpt from Chapter I):On the northern shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence there stood, not very long ago, a group of wooden houses, which were simple in construction and lowly in aspect. The region around them was a vast uncultivated, uninhabited solitude. The road that led to them was a rude one. It wound round a rugged cliff, under the shelter of which the houses nestled as if for protection from the cold winds and the snowdrifts that took special delight in revelling there.This group of buildings was, at the time we write of, an outpost of the fur-traders, those hardy pioneers of civilisation, to whom, chiefly, we are indebted for opening up the way into the northern wilderness of America. The outpost was named the Cliff after the bold precipice, near the base of which it stood. A slender stockade surrounded it, a flag-staff rose in the centre of it, and a rusty old ship's carronade reared defiantly at its front gate. In virtue of these warlike appendages the place was sometimes styled "the Fort." When first established, the Cliff Fort lay far beyond the outmost bounds of civilised life, but the progress of emigration had sent forward wave after wave into the northern wilderness, and the tide rose at last until its distant murmur began to jar on the ears of the traders in their lonely dwelling; warning them that competition was at hand, and that, if they desired to carry on the trade in peace, they must push still further into the bush, or be hopelessly swallowed up in the advancing tide. When the unwelcome sounds of advancing civilisation first broke the stillness of this desolate region, the chief of the trading-post was seated at breakfast with his clerk. He was a tall, good-looking, young Englishman, named Reginald Redding.  The clerk, Bob Smart, was a sturdy youth, who first saw the light among the mountains of Scotland. Doubtless he had been named Robert when baptised, but his intimates would not have understood you had you mentioned him by that name. Bob had just helped Reginald to the wing of a salt goose, and was about to treat himself to a leg of the same when the cook entered.

A Ballad of Hell


John Davidson - 1895
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The Poems of Edgar Allen Poe


Edgar Allan Poe - 1895
    O-D --Fairy-land --For Annie --"Happiest day, the happiest hour" --Haunted palace --To Helen (1831) --To Helen (1848) --Hymn --Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius --Imitation --"In the greenest of our valleys" --Introduction --"In youth I have known one" --To Isadore --Israfel --Lake: To- --Lenore --Lines on ale --To Louise Oliver Hunter --To M.L.S. --To my mother --Mysterious star --To Octavia --To one in paradise --Apaean --Poetry --Raven --Romance --"Sancta Maria" --Scenes from "Politian" --Serenade --Silence --Sleeper --To science --Song --Spirits of the dead --Stanzas --To ... ("The bowers whereat ... ") --To ... ("Not long ago..") --To ... (Should my early life..") --To ... (Sleep on..") --To ... ("I heed not") --To the river --Valentine --Valley of unrest --To Zante --Poetic principle --Rationale of verse.