The gift of the estate of John Luczkiw; Fisher copy: With the stamp of the Tovarystvo Prosvity imeny M. Pavlyka v Laniuk
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
From the library of John Luczkiw
PREFACE: THE chief purpose of this book is, if fortune helps, to entertain people interested in the kind of narratives here collected. For the sake of orderly arrangement, the stories are classed in different grades, as they advance from the normal and familiar to the undeniably startling. At the same time an account of the current theories of Apparitions is offered, in language as free from technicalities as possible. According to modern opinion every ghost is a halluci...
Translation from English; From the library of John Luczkiw
Subject: Russian language; National characteristics, Russian; Transliteration
CHAPTER I. THE PURPLE DEATH: LOOK at this, Cardona. Fiercely, Police Commissioner Ralph Weston brandished a newspaper before the eyes of his ace inspector, Joe Cardona. The headline, in a big-typed streamer, read: PURPLE DEATH STRIKES AGAIN His swarthy face grim, Cardona received the newspaper with tight-fisted hands. He grimaced when he noted that the newspaper had foregone the usual red ink that it used for sensational headlines. The big letters were printed in purple;...
Gift from the library of Paul Robert Magocsi
Vydanie akad. tov. Moloda Ukraïna v Chernivtsiakh. Back cover; Z nevilnychykh pisen -- Rytmy -- Khvylyny -- Legendy -- Oderzhma; Gift of J.R. Wynnyckyj
My endeavor has been to tell a simple story, preserving as closely as possible the spirit and feeling of the original. I have tried, as it were, to take the play to pieces, and build a novel out of the same material. I have not felt at liberty to embellish M. Brieux's ideas, and I have used his dialogue word for word wherever possible. Unless I have mis-read the author, his sole purpose in writing LES AVARIES was to place a number of most important facts before the minds...
The gift of the estate of John Luczkiw; Fisher copy: With the stamp of the Ukr. Lit. Soc'y. of T. Szewczenko, Kenora-Keewatin, Ont
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CHAPTER I: A boy of sixteen, with a small gripsack in his hand, trudged along the country road. He was of good height for his age, strongly built, and had a frank, attractive face. He was naturally of a cheerful temperament, but at present his face was grave, and not without a shade of anxiety. This can hardly be a matter of surprise when we consider that he was thrown upon his own resources, and that his available capital consisted of thirty-seven cents in money, in add...
t.2. Ukrainska proza vid Kvitky do 80-kh rokiv XIX v; Walter Kowal