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Excerpt from Saint Catherine of Siena: And Her Times About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfe...

Excerpt from Mademoiselle Mori, Vol. 1: A Tale of Modern Rome, in Two Volumes If the piazzas and streets below had not been equally crowded, all Rome might have been supposed on the Pincio. Languages from all parts of the world were heard there, foreigners and natives were blended together. Here, a magnificent Armenian prelate walked, with stately air and flowing beard, beside a white-robed Dominican. There, a group of Americans, of English, ...

Excerpt from Bride Picotee "There are but two of us." - St. Ronan's Well. Like many towns in that part of France round which curved in old days the great duchy of Burgundy, Louville has a strong impress of Flemish architecture. The high roofs, the style in which its churches are built, the sleepy, quiet squares, the narrow streets, seem to belong rather to the sixteenth than to the nineteenth century, and though, since a 0 railway has passed...

Excerpt from Tempest Tossed: The Story of Seejungfer About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfe...

Excerpt from Mademoiselle Mori: A Tale of Modern Rome One Sunday evening in October, the English congregation were pouring out of the room which served them as a church, outside the Porta del Popolo. The English season at Rome had just begun. A long file of carriages was waiting, and they successively came up to the door, and drove off, either to various residences, or to the Pincian Hill. The walkers turned into the gardens of Villa Borghese...

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Excerpt from Duty, Vol. 1 of 3: A NovelIt is this conviction that has led me to undertake the difficult though soothing task of endeavouring to de lineate the character of the lamented and admirable Woman whose manu script work I am about to give to the world, for, if the person of an author be interesting to the reader, 'the charac ter and the conduct must be infinitely more so, especially as we gaze on the portrait prefixed to 'a work, chie¿...

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Excerpt from Denise, Vol. 1Where it becomes indubitably Italian, seem to have had their hand against every one, and every one's hand against them. Antibes and Hyeres, little Vol tri and Spottorno, Nice and Monaco, only followed the example of Crema and Cremona, Ancona and Venice, and all the other great cities, French and Italian, which indulged their jealousy and spited each other to their mutual ruin. Other causes be sides these local feuds ...

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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...

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After spending most of her husband's active duty career in the desert of Twenty-Nine Palms, California, Roberts eloquently compares desert flowers with the sometimes harsh survival of the military wife.

Not since the late 1970s has a single work presented the biology of this heterogenous group of secondary alkaloids in such depth. Alkaloids, a unique treatise featuring leaders in the field, presents both the historical use of alkaloids and the latest discoveries in the biochemistry of alkaloid production in plants alkaloid ecology, including marine invertebrates, animal and plant parasites, and alkaloids as antimicrobial and current medic...