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Excerpt from Slander The girl leaned forward and knocked on the glass. "I said 'Washington Square, '" she called. The car skidded dangerously on the wet pavement as the taximan twisted in his seat. "Doncha s'pose I know my way around, lady?" he demanded. As if to show his contempt for a person so stupid as not to know that there was more than one way to a destination, he stepped on the accelerator. The machine slued, above her own cry of qu...

Excerpt from A More Honorable Man Uncle Frank expectorates again. His big chest, covered with fat, swells beneath the hardboiled shirt which was white on Sunday, but which, today being Thursday, is not as immaculate as it might be if Uncle Frank was not a bachelor. The look which he casts upon the drummer is devoid of the genial good-humor which nearly always peeks from the fat-embedded eyes of mine host of The Commercial House. About the Pu...

Excerpt from Plunder Sweetheart: You laughed because I wouldn't change her name, because I insisted on calling her Kirby Rowland. But if I wanted to draw you, as well as my poor pen might, I saw no reason why I should not, by my heroine's name, tell my readers that you were her model. And so the name was kept, the name so like your own. But, oh, my dear, I have fallen so far short. One can not, after all, describe the heart. And the you I l...

Excerpt from Uneasy Street Carnival was in the air. Uniforms predominated, nevertheless, there was no lack of wine upon the tables. 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 whil...

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A panorama of a whole civilization, a world on the verge of cataclysm, unfolds in this magisterial work by the foremost historian of eighteenth-century France. Since Tocqueville's account of the Old Regime, historians have struggled to understand the social, cultural, and political intricacies of this efflorescence of French society before the Revolution.< I>