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...THE CURSE OF KALI is a historical fiction set in 19th century India by Audrey Blankenhagen. The exotic beauty of India, her British rulers living in splendid isolation; the opulence and intrigue of a Muslim Royal Court; the m...

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... THE CURSE OF KALI Historical Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ... ... Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 ... ... E.M. Forster, 1924 This book is a work of fiction. Places, events, and situations in this story are purely fictional. Any resemblan... ...s, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) ISBN: ... ...ing Helen, I knew this day would come and I welcome the release from my suffering and hope to be united soon with your beloved mother. My only THE... ...oyed the spectacle of the festival of Durga Puja. Their Indian guide explained, ‘This festival is based on the saga Ramayana which recalls the victo... ...the attraction of these Eastern women to a Western male - they were so submissive and learned the arts of loving and serving a man even before they ... ... me. I will carry her downstairs and you must follow me closely. This old house is built on solid foundations, but another tremor may bring the roof... ...g to curb) many rebels had been allowed to escape. They fled to forts of rebel Princes whose own States had been annexed by the British under Lord ...

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...This is the continuation of Nawin's story. Now a famous prostitute painter suffering a midlife crisis, he abandons supercilious makings of wealth for a train trip ride to Laos where he repudiates and ventures onto something new...

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...An Apostate: Nawin of Thais By Steven Sills 1 He assumed that in being exhausted from sporadic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, h... ...adic fits of sleep and wakeful spans of dull, hypnagogic thoughts matching the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in ... ...ng the inertia of his confinement he would finally become ensconced there, in this train jostling him around, and at last fall asleep. This was his ho... ...utated into) an overall mood was needed, a background color for the canvas based on faded memories falling through the mind as softly as leaves or as ... ...lm trees and two-story shacks where the bottom halves had such high earthy foundations and the true houses were the upper portions where drying laundr... ...tragic outcome of a woman's life, and his own self-worth, which fluctuated based on the height of the wave it floated upon, registered merely as likel... ... mental illness meant nothing for, had he been able to consider it, entire foundations of long established cities had fallen under enough visceral shi... ... really best to give oneself to a discipline of study, the sciences or the arts, which will always be there--smart men give themselves to knowledge at... ...as little thriving on the backs of others. There were no elite artists--no arts at all outside that which impoverished students sold along the river t...

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...y received. There was no opening to nominate him for Superintendent of Public Instruction, but through him Egypt made a most valuable contribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to hi...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...olumes V olume 5 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publica... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Five is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State... ...r. Clay says: “If a state of na- ture existed and we were about to lay the foundations of soci- ety, no man would be more strongly opposed than I shou... ... free Territories, a state of nature does exist. In them Congress lays the foundations of society; and in laying those foundations, I say, with Mr. Cl... ...erstand that this government of the United States, under which we live, is based upon this principle; and I am misunderstood if it is supposed that I ... ...rvatism for yourselves, and your charge of destructiveness against us, are based on the most clear and stable foundations. Again: Y ou say we have mad... ...hose members, one and another, possess full practical knowledge of all the arts, sci- ences, professions, and whatever else, whether useful or el- ega... ... States may justly pride them- selves upon their proficiency in industrial arts, it is desirable that they should have proper facilities toward taking...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of on...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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...n or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne Complete Two Volumes in One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun... ...te Two Volumes in One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a p... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ots still cling- ing to her. She was a beautiful and attractive woman, but based, as it were, upon a cloud, and all surrounded with misty substance; s... ...ait-busts, sculpture has no longer a right to claim any place among living arts. It has wrought itself out, and come fairly to an end. There is never ... ...ly believe that future sculptors will revive this noblest of the beautiful arts, and people the world with new shapes of delicate grace and massive gr... ...ad unquestionably dwelt for imme- morial ages. And there they had laid the foundations of their tower, so long ago that one half of its height was sai... ...teresting inside as out. It cannot be less than six hundred years old; the foundations and lower story are much older than that, I should judge; and t... ...the sunshine; they looked like fragments of the world, bro- ken adrift and based on nothingness, or like portions of a 202 The Marble Fawn sphere des...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Marseilles -- The Arrival. On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples. As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d?If...

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...ne by Alexandre Dumas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume One by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...ht, free step of an Arlesienne or an Andalusian. One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at leas... ...ly to comprehend that this mode of reconciling political differ- ences was based upon sound and excellent principles. Then the king, who, without our ... ...glars entered the service of the Spanish banker, with whom he had laid the foundations of his vast wealth. It was said at this moment that Danglars wa... ...andre Dumas 289 disposition revealed itself. Beside his taste for the fine arts, which Luigi had carried as far as he could in his solitude, he was gi... ...revolutions had built and cemented the pedestal upon which his fortune was based. M. de Villefort had the reputation of being the least curious and th... ...ion, and M. Danglars, who never had possessed any patrimony, both laid the foundations of their differ- ent fortunes.” “Yes,” said Monte Cristo “I thi...