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  • THE CONVICT: A TALE
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    THE CONVICT: A TALE
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "In a small high room of the oldest part of St. John's College, Cambridge, in a warm and glowing day of the early spring, and at about seven o'clock in the morning, there sat a young man with his cheek leaning on his hand, and his eyes fixed upon the page of an open book. There were many others closed and unclosed upon the table around him, as well as various pieces of...

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  • THE SMUGGLER: A TALE. VOLUMES I-III
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    THE SMUGGLER: A TALE. VOLUMES I-III
    G.P.R. JAMES
    This book was written over a century ago. The descriptions of the shoreline of Kent all in non-sophisticated but very distinctive English are music to ears and imagination. To this add a great depiction of England's not-so-underground society -- at the time... Great book. (Goodreads) ...

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  • THE GIPSY: A TALE (VOL. I - II)
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    THE GIPSY: A TALE (VOL. I - II)
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "At that time in the world's history when watches, in their decline from the fat comeliness of the turnip to the scanty meagreness of the half-crown, had arrived at the intermediate form of a biffin--when the last remnant of a chivalrous spirit instigated men to wear swords every day, and to take purses on horseback--when quadrupeds were preferred to steam, and sails w...

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  • THE KING'S HIGHWAY
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    THE KING'S HIGHWAY
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: ""Names, indeed, are nothing," said the other with a smile. "What I have got to say, sir, is this, that I have undoubted reason to know that the life of the High Personage we refer to is in hourly danger; that there are persons in this realm who have not only designed to kill him, but have laid with skill and accuracy their schemes for effecting that purpose. I have he...

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  • DELAWARE; OR, THE RUINED FAMILY. VOL.1,2 AND 3
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    DELAWARE; OR, THE RUINED FAMILY. VOL.1,2 AND 3
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "Not many years ago, as the writer of this work was returning on horseback to Castellamare, from a visit to the Lactarian Hills, he overtook, just under the chestnut trees on the slope, which every one who has visited that part of Italy must remember, two gentlemen with their guide, who were on their way home after some expedition of a kind similar to his own. As the i...

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  • THE OLD DOMINION
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    THE OLD DOMINION
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "I wrote to you, my dear sister, from the pretty little town of Baltimore; and I hope you have received my letter. Although this so speedily follows it, my only motives for writing are, to occupy idle time, and to relieve your mind from apprehension regarding my safety during my passage through all the terrors of Chesapeake Bay: "that long and dreadful inlet," as you c...

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  • AGNES SOREL: A NOVEL
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    AGNES SOREL: A NOVEL
    G.P.R. JAMES
    The story is really about one Jean Charost, who enters into the service of the Duke of Orleans in the early 1400's, and proves himself worthy. It has lots of sword fights and sieges and dungeons and fleeing by night, in the good tradition of a swashbuckler. (Goodreads) ...

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  • FOREST DAYS: A ROMANCE OF OLD TIMES
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    FOREST DAYS: A ROMANCE OF OLD TIMES
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "It was an hour past midnight - the sentries had just been relieved upon the castle wall - and Hugh de Monthermer sat by the window, looking out into the depth of night, and gazing at the far twinkling of the stars. The mind was occupied in the same manner as the body, for it was looking forth into the dark night of death, and marking the small bright shining lights fr...

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  • TICONDEROGA: A STORY OF EARLY FRONTIER LIFE IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY
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    TICONDEROGA: A STORY OF EARLY FRONTIER LIFE IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "The house was a neat, though a lowly one. It bore traces of newness, for the bark on the trunks which supported the little veranda had not yet mouldered away. Nevertheless, it was not built by the owner's own hands ; for when he came there he had much to learn in the rougher arts of life ; but with a carpenter from a village some nine miles off, he had aided to raise ...

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  • THE CASTLE OF EHRENSTEIN
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    THE CASTLE OF EHRENSTEIN
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "It was an awfully dark and tempestuous night; the wind howled in fury through the trees, and round the towers; the large drops of rain dashed against the casements, the small lozenges of glass rattled and clattered in their leaden frames, and the thick boards of the oaken floor heaved and shivered under the force of the tempest. From time to time a keen blue streak of...

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  • A WHIM, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
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    A WHIM, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "A solitary room at midnight: a single wax candle lighted on the table: the stiff dull crimson silken curtains of the bed close drawn: half a dozen phials and two or three glasses. Is it the chamber of a sick man? He must sleep sound if it be, for there is no noise—not even a breath; and all without is as still as death. There is awe in the silence; the candle sheds gl...

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  • ATTILA: A ROMANCE. VOL.1-2
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    ATTILA: A ROMANCE. VOL.1-2
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "In giving this book to the public I have but little to explain. The reader who takes it up may expect to find something respecting the Princess Honoria. He will, however, find nothing. All that we know of her history is uninteresting, except to those who love to dwell upon the pruriencies of a degraded state of society :all that we know of her character is disgusting ...

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  • AGINCOURT: A ROMANCE
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    AGINCOURT: A ROMANCE
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "The night was as black as ink; not a solitary twinkling star looked out through that wide expanse of shadow, which our great Poet has called the "blanket of the dark;" clouds covered the heaven; the moon had not risen to tinge them even with grey, and the sun had too long set to leave one faint streak of purple upon the edge of the western sky. Trees, houses, villages...

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  • THE WOODMAN: A ROMANCE OF THE TIMES OF RICHARD III
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    THE WOODMAN: A ROMANCE OF THE TIMES OF RICHARD III
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "Of all the hard-working people on the earth, there are none so serviceable to her neighbours as the moon. She lights lovers and thieves. She keeps watch-dogs waking. She is a constant resource to poets and romance-writers. She helps the compounders of almanacks amazingly. She has something to do with the weather, and the tides, and the harvest; and in short she has a ...

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  • THE MAN IN BLACK: AN HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE DAYS OF QUEEN ANNE
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    THE MAN IN BLACK: AN HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE DAYS OF QUEEN ANNE
    G.P.R. JAMES
    Excerpt: "Let me take you into an old-fashioned country house, built by architects of the early reign of James the First. It had all the peculiarities--I might almost say the oddities--of that particular epoch in the building art. Chimneys innumerable had it. Heaven only knows what rooms they ventilated; but their name must have been legion. The windows were not fewer in number...

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