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The Hog Family

In From the Easy Chair Vol. 2

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George William Curtis

The second volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the…

Chapter 19 Confirmation of the demands of the reasonable consciousness

In On Life

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Leo Tolstoy

What is the "good life" for us mortal beings? Two months spent recovering from a severe injury allowed Tolstoy to develop and orga…

Friends Again

In Emily of New Moon (Version 2)

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

Orphaned Emily Starr is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy…

Chapter Fifty Nine

In Peter Simple

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Frederick Marryat

Peter Simple, 'the fool of the family', son of a parson but heir presumptive to a title, goes to sea as midshipman during the Napoleonic war…

Chapter XVIII

In The Step on the Stair

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Anna Katharine Green

Green's last published detective novel, The Step on the Stair is typical of her earlier mysteries. Quenton is in love with Orpha, and thinks…

Chapter 10

In Nature And Art

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Elizabeth Inchbald

This is a novel by the author of the play Lover's Vows which was mentioned in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. William and Henry come to Londo…

Dream of Owen O'Mulready

In More Celtic Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs

More fairy tales from the early days of the British Isles, collected and edited by Joseph Jacobs. - Summary by bookworm360

The Fate of the Assassins

In Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10)

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John Hay

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who…

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