PREFATORY NOTE

I reprint in this volume, for what they may be worth, a dozen minor
novels that have been published in the periodical press at various
dates in the past, in order to render them accessible to readers who
desire to have them in the complete series issued by my publishers.
For aid in reclaiming some of the narratives I express my thanks to
the proprietors and editors of the newspapers and magazines in whose
pages they first appeared.

T. H.
August 1913.

Original article: A Changed Man and Other Tales by Thomas Hardy]]> http://fulltextarchive.com/page/A-Changed-Man-and-Other-Tales1/ Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:14 PDT http://fulltextarchive.com/page/Abraham-Lincoln1/ In using for purposes of drama a personality of so wide and recent a
fame as that of Abraham Lincoln, I feel that one or two observations
are due to my readers and critics.

First, my purpose is that not of the historian but of the dramatist.
The historical presentation of my hero has been faithfully made in
many volumes; notably, in England, by Lord Charnwood in a monograph
that gives a masterly analysis of Lincoln's career and character and
is, it seems to me, a model of what the historian's work should be. To
this book I am gratefully indebted for the material of my play. But
while I have, I hope, done nothing to traverse history, I have freely
telescoped its events, and imposed invention upon its movement,
in such ways as I needed to shape the dramatic significance of my
subject. I should add that the fictitious Burnet Hook is admitted
to the historical company of Lincoln's Cabinet for the purpose of
embodying certain forces that were antagonistic to the President. This
was a dramatic necessity, and I chose rather …

MOON OF ISRAEL
A Tale of the Exodus

by H. Rider Haggard

AUTHOR'S NOTE

This book suggests that the real Pharaoh of the Exodus was not
Meneptah or Merenptah, son of Rameses the Great, but the mysterious
usurper, Amenmeses, who for a year or two occupied the throne between
the death of Meneptah and the accession of his son the heir-apparent,
the gentle-natured Seti II.

Of the fate of Amenmeses history says nothing; he may well have
perished in the Red Sea or rather the Sea of Reeds, for, unlike those
of Meneptah and the second Seti, his body has not been found.

http://fulltextarchive.com/page/Moon-of-Israel1/ Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:14 PDT http://fulltextarchive.com/page/The-Pickwick-Papers1/ 3. A new Acquaintance--The Stroller's Tale--A
disagreeable Interruption, and an unpleasant
Encounter

4. A Field Day and Bivouac--More new Friends--An
Invitation to the Country

5. A short one--Showing, among other Matters, how
Mr. Pickwick undertook to drive, and Mr. Winkle
to ride, and how they both did it

6. An old-fashioned Card-party--The Clergyman's
verses--The Story of the Convict's Return

7. How Mr. Winkle, instead of shooting at the Pigeon
and killing the Crow, shot at the Crow and
wounded the Pigeon; how the Dingley Dell
Cricket Club played All-Muggleton, and how All-
Muggleton dined at the Dingley Dell Expense;
with other interesting and instructive Matters

8. Strongly illustrative of the Posit…

And what a brilliant sight it was! The flowers had faded on the hills,
for June was upon them; but gayer than the hills had been was the
race-field of Monterey. Caballeros, with silver on their wide gray hats
and on their saddles of embossed leather, gold and silver embr…

FOREWORD

A wiggling, brainless, slimy atom began it. He and trillions
of his kind. He was the Coral Worm ("Anthozoa," if you prefer).

He and his tribe lived and died on the sea-bottom, successive
generations piling higher on the skeletons and lifework--or
the life-loafing, for they were lazy atoms--of those that went
before. At last the coral reef crawled upward until in
uncharted waters it was tall enough to smash a wooden
ship-keel.

Then, above the surface of the waves it nosed its way, grayish
white, whalebacked. From a hundred miles distant floated a
cigar-shaped mangrove-bud, bobbing vertically, through the
ocean, until it chanced…

CHAPTER I. PENROD AND SAM

During the daylight hours of several autumn Saturdays there had
been severe outbreaks of cavalry in the Schofield neighbourhood.
The sabres were of wood; the steeds were imaginary, and both were
employed in a game called "bonded pri…

The main characters in this true-to-life narrative are led to Bible
salvation, and then step by step into the various Bible doctrines, and
finally to establish a congregation of the Church of God after the
New Testament pattern. In the meantime, the snares of false doctrines
which surrounded them were exposed and they were guided unerringly in
the truth of God's Word.

May the Scriptural truths set forth in this narrative enlighten every
reader, and arm him with "the Sword of the Spirit, which is the word
of God," to meet and refute the false teachings now abroad in our
land.

--Lawrence Pruitt
Guthrie, Oklahoma
May, 1968

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The young persons of the house had escaped, laughing, into the fresh night
air, but the colonel was hemmed in on every side; deserted by his
daughter, mocked by the work of his own hands, and torn between the duties
of a host and the host's helpless craving for his after-dinner cigar.

Across the hearth, filling with her silks all the visible room in his own
favorite settle corner, sat the one woman on earth it most behooved him to
be civil to,--the future mother-in-law of his only child. That Moya was a
willing, nay, a reckless hostage, did not lessen her father's awe of the
situatio…