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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each ot...

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...re Delacroix’s background, and her intellectual rebellion against her place in “proper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision ... ... inspiration. I am also grateful to Paddy Doyle Cathcart, who became Pierre in these pages. Jacket design by James Courtney (c) Sharon E. Cathcart, 2... ...re I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Frie... ...otillion or coming-out for me. My father spent a great deal of money on my education, and there was not much left for such fripperies. As other you... ...impering behavior of the Parisian women. At the same time, he preferred my education to that of the Baincthuinoise ladies. I read constantly, and w... ...gem he employed to make it so. He picked up my regular corset, a pale blue China silk, and examined it somewhat disdainfully. My stays had no lac... ...rench one is just too big now.” She made a pretty moue. It was my favorite China-blue silk; I hoped that a competent corsettier could take it in. O... ...ing to a pattern I had long thought behind me, I had Michael take me to the Chinatown at Limehouse, where I sought out the arms of Morpheus in an op... ...o school anymore.” 112 “Dolly,” I said as I put the vegetables aside, “Your education is very important. It’s a wonderful thing that Prince Albert ...

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Edge of the SKY South China Sea Phom Rak Khun The Meh Khong River Mahogany Shadows Heart of Java Sudharmi Ode to Dati Devil Moon Dukun

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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca N...

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... Book One: Sang Huin "It is probable, then, that if a man should arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imi... ... sacred, admirable, and charming personage, but we shall tell him that in our state there is no one like him, and that our law excludes suc... ... of the virtuous man." Plato (Republic) Chapter One At Toksugum Palace in Chongno of Seoul Sang Huin (known by his friends in the states as Shaw... ...taining its ecosystem, the muscular young body that had an orange hue like a Chinamen who had sucked up too much sun. After the revelation he had lis... ... East with reference to the new economic experiments in the Soviet Union and China. "The whole f-- world is West," thought Gabriele. She felt that dem... ...re." "My job here means that I have to live here alone." "You have a college education from America. You shouldn't be wasting yourself working at a c... ...ersity. She had not had a steady boyfriend since early in her undergraduate education when she decided that men were special creatures who were uniqu... ...seat thinking how ignorant he was of the earliest essays and arguments about education. Even centuries ago intellectuals believed that education shoul... ...pen and she stepped into it. Photographs of Peru, Mexico, Egypt, Italy, and China graced her. Where would she go? Should she take her son with her ...

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...The Kabbalah Experience is one of the most fascinating books ever published in Kabbalah. It is a journey in time from the past to the future, in situations we might all experience at some point. Anyone who wants to learn how to make the most of every moment in his or her life, anyone who wishes to fi...

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...Introduction: The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how to live in the reality that is spread before us. It is a systematic method that has evolved over thousands of years, taught by a handful of unique individuals in every generation. Their task has been to ensure that the truths of Kabb...

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........................................... 323 Chapter 10. The Messiah and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah .................................................... 356 Chapter 12. Reflections and Thoughts .............................................. 386 Detailed Table of Contents: .........................................

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...rs, 1057 Steeles Avenue West, Suite 532, Toronto, ON, M2R 3X1, Canada. Printed in Canada. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner... ...r reproduced in any manner without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or review... ...and the End of Days ................................. 346 Chapter 11. Concepts in Kabbalah ....................................................356 Cha... ... opening our eyes instead of remaining blind. Of course, if one were “a man,” education would not be needed, because education is only needed to com... ...ence of corporeal pleasures, such as sex, money, control, fame, re- spect, and education, until we develop the aspiration toward the Creator. When tha... ... everything. The most important objective is to be freed from prejudice, from education and from public opinion. Free yourself from anything extrane... ...nces in culture and psychological differ- ences. But many sages from India and China, such as Buddha, Osho and others climbed very high in their spir...

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought...

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...ond Edition. The first edition of this tale was put forth without explaining the old fable on which it was founded--a fable recurring again and again in fairy myths, though not traceable in the classic world till a very late period, when it appeared among the tales of Apuleius, of the province of Africa, sometimes called the earliest novelist. There are, however, fragments...

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...Excerpt: Part I, Chapter 1; HAPPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to ...

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...2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. First published in English, 1901. First published in Russian, 1877. “Vengeance is mine; ... ...t I Chapter 1 H APPY families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys’ house. The ... ...and was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could no... ...e lacking, two heavy guns—the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service— had not to move out either of ... ... in accordance with the ideas of the set in which he lived, and with his own education, he could not have conceived of any behavior to his mother not ... ... I will tell you it from the beginning. You know how I was married. With the education mamma gave us I was more than innocent, I was stupid. I knew no... ...ming with the light of candles, white cloth, silver samovar, and transparent china tea things. The hostess sat down at the table and took off her glov... ... Countess Lidia Ivanovna had sent him a pamphlet by a celebrated traveler in China, who was staying in Petersburg, and with it she enclosed a note beg... ...ou may as well sit there,” he said to Levin. The dinner was as choice as the china, in which Stepan Arkadyevitch was a connoisseur. The soupe Marie Lo...

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...Excerpt: Colonel Chabert. ?Hullo! There is that old Box-coat again!? This exclamation was made by a lawyer?s clerk of the class called in French offices a gutter-jumper--a messenger in fact--who at this moment was eating a piece of dry bread with a hearty appetite. He pulled off a morsel of crumb to make into a bullet, and fired it gleefully through the open...

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...English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one ...

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...e Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ne associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ...s, dressed, across a large unseemly bed, upon a bedstead that has indeed given way under the weight upon it. Lying, also dressed and also across the b... ...idnight,’ the woman goes on, as she chronically complains. ‘Poor me, poor me, my head is so bad. Them two come in after ye. Ah, poor me, the business ... ... good soul, won’t ye, that the market price is dreffle high just now? More nor three shillings and sixpence for a thimbleful! And ye’ll remember that ... ...ne comes to,’ pursues Durdles, considering about it with the same sodden gravity; ‘I don’t know what you may precisely call it. It ain’t a sort of a –... ...0 – the old lady resumed, ‘“to get our little affair of business off my mind. I have spoken with my two wards, Neville and Helena Landless, on the sub... ...revengeful. I have been always tyrannically held down by the strong hand. This has driven me, in my weakness, to the resource of being false and mean....

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by W... ...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... ...736, soon after our return from England, whither my parents took me for my education; and where I made the acquaintance of Mr. W arrington, whom my ch... ...any was there in which he would not be first? When I went to Europe for my education, and we passed a winter at London with my half-brother, my Lord C... ... Mrs. Tusher lying sixty miles off at Castlewood. But my papa’s genius and education are both greater than any a woman can be expected to have, and hi... ...e he was a dozen years older, and might have finished his days a martyr in China or a victim on Tower Hill: for, in the few months they spent together... ...eautified not a little to receive him. The flowers were in the window in a china vase; and there was a fine new counterpane on the bed, which chatterb...

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...Excerpt: The Second Cabin. I first encountered my fellow-passengers on the Broomielaw in Glasgow. Thence we descended the Clyde in no familiar spirit, but looking askance on each other as on possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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...Excerpt: In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but wh...

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...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy in November. The French people were be...

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