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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...the plants below, the glassy window of the water, the fish, coral, ruined cities...the lovers of other days, the mother of us all, love, pulsing in ... ..., storm, heat, cold, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We nev... ...k on the wall and wondered if I had grown taller. Galilee A storm. The lake. Two fishermen drowned. Tents blown over. Next day as I bury the dead... ...g in a borrowed tent; James and Mark are asleep inside. Yesterday, on the lake shore, I was circled by a crowd. I talked to them till late. I wish t... ...nson, Raleigh, Spenser have had their days in jail; I have had mine—those county sties where pigs and dust ate my manuscripts and foetid odors ate m... ...ounds (shall I make it more?); in addition, I grant her my estate in Warr County—I like that place... To Joan—I leave my clothes. Why? To Elizabe... ...ties. Was it two years ago a man handed me two red apples at a depot in Ohio, bowing, and wishing me well? I insist that the United States form...

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...a Scott ISBN 10: 1-936000-02-4 ISBN 13: 978-1-936000-02-9 Published in the United States of America Publish Date: March 29, 2009 Edito... ...l rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocop... ... Listen With Your Heart 5 Prologue The Victoria Theatre, Dayton, Ohio, 1866 He’s out! Finished. He’ll never work ... ... were old friends and fellow troopers. As it turns out, we met years ago in Ohio.” “Dayton. The Victoria Theatre,” Morgan nodded, relaxing, surpri... ...ful writer. Very humorous. I have The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County in my room. I’ll lend it to you.” “Thank you. I’m sure I’ll ... ...re than a pencil scribble of unfamiliar names followed by various dates and cities. “Amos Carew, 6-11-67-Brooklyn; 9-21-69-Wash; 10-4-69— Boston. ... ...s story that here St. Finbar drowned a local monster. A breeze rippled the lake’s calm waters, and Morgan imagined it the echo of the monster’s dyi... ...rs, and Morgan imagined it the echo of the monster’s dying breath. Across County Cork and into Kerry, Bridey chanted a constant refrain, “Sure’n ye... ...s Carew,” she declared. “And it was on it again and again. With dates and cities like Washington and Brooklyn and Boston.” “God, Morgan, no,” Dan...

...every wish come true. Daniel entices her into a marriage of convenience. Can she save him from the treacherous political legacy of his late wife? Set in 1871, the story sweeps from the tragedy of the Chicago Fire to the streets of New York and finally to the wild, dangerous coast of Ireland. Is Daniel merely using Morgan for his own deceptions? Or is she right to listen wi...

... be accessed through the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congr... ...served mockery. “Want that insignia torn off your car, Dad? Then it would be in the public domain, right?” My colleagues at Duke are one of the main i... ...y men themselves. They consume, destroy, and devour whole fields, houses, and cities. Who were these sheep? Bizarre Dolly-like clones? Transgenic kille... ...ho died in 1909 and is buried in the same place he was born, East Liverpool, Ohio. But the words have an earnestness to them that gives life to the ot... ... at high altitudes, or of fishing techniques that worked well on a particular lake, a song that a friend created for a special occasion, or a short sto... ...ublic one. Someone, somewhere, will have written the guide to fishing on that lake, baking at that altitude, washing windows, or treating stings from P... ...nmental welfare economics were important, but one cannot merely write A Sand County Almanac and hope the world will change. Environmen- talists piggyb... ... (1977): 265–290; Paul J. Heald, “A Transaction Costs Theory of Patent Law,” Ohio State Law Journal 66 (2005): 473–509; and Robert Merges, “A T ransac...

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...D ANDERSON OOD ANDERSON W W W W Winesbur inesbur inesbur inesbur inesburg, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio g, Ohio A P A P A P A P A Penn S enn S enn S e... ...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...e trees by the pickers. They have been put in bar- rels and shipped to the cities where they will be eaten in apartments that are filled with books, m... ...ather and the ownership of which still stood re- corded in her name in the county courthouse. The hotel was continually losing patronage because of it... ...r’s hotel, wearing loud clothes and urging them to tell her of life in the cities out of which they had come. Once she startled the town by putting on... ...iet streets where everyone was asleep. The sun was just coming up over the lake. Funny, eh—just to think of them smoking pipes and chattering as they ... ...afraid that she was about to become a mother, they went one evening to the county seat and were married. For a few months they lived in the Hardy hous... ...randfather, a stone quarryman, and it, together with the stone quarries on Lake Erie eighteen miles to the north, had been left to his son, Clarence R...

Excerpt: Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson.

...Contents Winesburg, Ohio ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION by Irving Howe .....................................

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania St... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ,... ... themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in ... ...outh, it grows narrower; grows narrower and deeper. From the junction of the Ohio to a point half way down to the sea, the width averages a mile in hi... ...pse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America woul... ...ntry and reached the banks of the Mississippi. They went by way of the Great Lakes; and from Green Bay, in canoes, by way of Fox River and the Wiscons... ... a barkeeper on a boat; four sons of the chief merchant, and two sons of the county judge, became pilots. Pilot was the grandest position of all. The ... ...ania’s had happened near her doors, and she was experienced, above all other cities on the river, in the gracious office of the Good Samaritan” The si... ... think it is; for there are plenty of ladies and gentlemen in the provincial cities whose garments are all made by the best tailors and dressmakers of...

...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 of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

...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. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...he continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differentl... ...arms beyond.” “I know but— Of course I’ve spent nine years around the Twin Cities—took my B.A. and M.D. over at the U., and had my internship in a hos... ...own. Lots of fine maples and box-elders, and there’s two of the dandi- est lakes you ever saw, right near town! And we’ve got seven miles of cement wa... ...b- bery, a porch indistinct in leafy shadows. But she ex- claimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman ... ... theirs is a pio- neer land. What is its future? she wondered. A future of cities and factory smut where now are loping empty fields? Homes universal ... ...no park to rest the eyes. And since not Gopher Prairie but Wakamin was the county- seat, there was no court-house with its grounds. She glanced throug... ...Anoka.” “He did not!” roared Mr. Stowbody. “He settled first in Blue Earth County, him and his father!” (“What’s the point at issue?” Carol whispered ...

...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...

...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State U... ...SUNRISE on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. ... ...regard, but evenly pursuing the path of duty, lead it through solitudes or cities, he held on his way along the lower deck until he chanced to come to... ...er, hawked, in the thick of the throng, the lives of Measan, the bandit of Ohio, Murrel, the pirate of 4 The Confidence-Man the Mississippi, and the ... ...l possible be- nevolence taxes; as in America here, the state-tax, and the county-tax, and the town-tax, and the poll-tax, are by the assessors rolled... ...threatened to sue for libel. I won’t say anything about his afterwards, in Ohio, being found in the act of gracefully putting a bar across a rail-road...

...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag,...

...erne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...were refreshingly cooled with ice, brought at great cost from the American lakes. If to live in this style is to be eccentric, it must be con- fessed ... ...he hands of her executioners. These fanatics were scattered throughout the county, and would, despite the English police, recover their victim at Madr... ...lashes the purest reflections and a celestial light swim, as in the sacred lakes of Himalaya, in the black pupils of her great clear eyes. Her teeth, ... ...pties into San Pablo Bay. The one hundred and twenty miles be- tween these cities were accomplished in six hours, and to- wards midnight, while fast a... ...he liberal professions, among its members; how a colony was established in Ohio, a temple erected there at a cost of two hundred thousand dollars, and... ... to force? Never! Driven from Ver- mont, driven from Illinois, driven from Ohio, driven from Missouri, driven from Utah, we shall yet find some indepe... ... two hours in this strikingly American town, built on the pattern of other cities of the Union, like a checker- board, “with the sombre sadness of rig...

Excerpt: Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne.

...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ses and all conditions. In the kind of pro vincial life which prevails in cities such as this, the Pulpit has great influence. The peculiar province ... ...ge for a few brief minutes on an open country, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it sca... ...e roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old England), are... ...on the wall. One, of a fe male, over the door, he called ‘The Lady of the Lake.’ He smiled as I looked at these contrivances to while away the time; ... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...t of its way to ripple near this mound: and there are few places where the Ohio sparkles more brightly than in the Big Grave Creek. All this I see as ... ... have a display of goods in their windows, such as may be seen in thriving county towns in England; and there are some which would do no discredit to ...

...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

...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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania S... ...tside it was bitterly cold. All day a freezing wind had blown from off the Lake, and since five in the afternoon a fine powder of snow had been fallin... ...d with his family emigrate toward the Mississippi. He had come to Sangamon County in Illinois. For a time he tried wheat-raising, until the War, which... ...Art Gallery that had taken the place of the old Exposition Building on the Lake Front. Laura had known him for some little time. On the oc- casion of ... ...II II II II II LAURA DEARBORN’S native town was Barrington, in Worces- ter County, Massachusetts. Both she and Page had been born there, and there had... ... power, its infinite, infi- nite, inexhaustible vitality. Here, of all her cities, throbbed the true life—the true power and spirit of America; gi- ga... ... the winter had not been heavy enough to protect the seeded grain. But the Ohio crop, it would appear, was promising enough, as was also that of Misso... ... while the cry for American wheat rose, insistent and vehement, from fifty cities and centres of eastern Europe; while the jam of men in the Wheat Pit...

...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ...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... ...queville could not foresee. Yet, in his commendation of the local town and county governments, he applauds and sustains that elementary feature of our... ...h, forming a triangle whose irregular sides meet at length below the great lakes of Canada. The second region begins where the other terminates, and i... ...at length, after innumerable windings, fall into the Polar Seas. The great lakes which bound this first region are not walled in, like most of those i... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ...formerly dwelt on the west side of the Mississippi. Along the banks of the Ohio, and throughout the central valley, there are frequently found, at thi... ...eople are more rude in aristocratic coun- tries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts. In those places where the rich and powerful... ...he other hand, it may be said that the town- ship was organized before the county, the county before the State, the State before the Union. In New Eng...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of...