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...hael Angelo Titmarch” A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “... ...h” A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titm... ...Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...epeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e body of the Emperor Napoleon should be given up to the French nation, in order that it might find a final resting-place in French earth. To this de-... ...n either side, only some pretty cordial expressions of mu- tual good-will. Orders were sent out to St. Helena that the corpse should be disinterred in... ... its hero return, the nation seemed to have found its Palladium again,—the sainted relics of victory.” At length, on the 14th, the coffin was transfer... ...cers of all arms employed at Paris, and unattached; the Military School of Saint Cyr, the Polytechnic School, the School of the Etat-Major; and the Pr... ...than all the politeness and high-breeding that ever wore red-heeled pumps, knights’ spurs, or Hoby’s boots, Titmarsh for one is never going to say you...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have...

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