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This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. Please note: This edition does not contain the second chapter of the first story, “The Haunted House”, by Dickens. It can be found in 3ghst10.txt or 3ghst10.zip, 1998, “Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens.” The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories – Old Time

The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc by Thomas de Quincey

Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH AND JOAN OF ARC BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY MILTON HAIGHT TURK, PH.D. TO CHARLES DEACON CREE THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED _Glencairn, Kilmacolm, Scotland June 27, 1905_ PREFACE Some portions of this Introduction

The Caesars by Thomas de Quincey

Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. THE CÆSARS. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY THE CÆSARS. The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we

Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers, Complete by Thomas De Quincey

Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK THE SPANISH NUN FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS REVEALED BY LORD ROSSE’S TELESCOPES MODERN SUPERSTITION COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING TEMPERANCE

Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. II. by Thomas De Quincey

Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, VOL. II. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS AS REVEALED BY LORD ROSSE’S TELESCOPES MODERN SUPERSTITION COLERIDGE AND OPIUM-EATING TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT ON WAR THE LAST DAYS OF IMMANUEL KANT SYSTEM OF THE HEAVENS

Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers, Vol. I. by Thomas De Quincey

Produced by Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. NARRATIVE AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY. CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK THE SPANISH NUN FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK. ‘To be weak,’ we need not the great archangel’s voice to tell us, ‘_is to

Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey

Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not

Memorials and Other Papers V2 by Thomas de Quincey

Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. II. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY CONTENTS. KLOSTERHEIM THE SPHINX’S RIDDLE THE TEMPLARS’ DIALOGUES KLOSTERHEIM CHAPTER I. The winter of 1633 had set in with unusual severity throughout Suabia and Bavaria, though as yet scarcely advanced beyond the first week of

Memorials and Other Papers V1 by Thomas de Quincey

Anne Soulard, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1886 George Routledge and Sons edition. This being a reprint of the 1821 London Magazine edition. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey. The first edition (London Magazine) text. 1886 George Routledge and Sons edition. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER: BEING AN

Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey

Produced by Robert Prince, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. DE QUINCEY’S WRITINGS. The “Confessions of an English Opium Eater,” and “Suspiria De Profundis,” form the first volume of this series of Mr. De Quincey’s Writings. A third volume will shortly be issued, containing some of his most interesting papers contributed