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The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet

In International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

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Francis J. Reynolds and Alphonse Daudet


The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de B…

Chapter 50: FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE

In The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax

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Harriet Parr


This is the coming of age story of Bessie Fairfax. A story about a girl who learns to see the world is it is and navigate in it. This is a v…

Chapter 6

In A Dark Night's Work

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

THE FIR-TREE

In The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (Version 2)

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Asa Don Dickinson and Variousandasa Don Dickinson


This books is a select collection of Christmas Stories in one volume. It is just that and nothing more.Each of the stories has already won …

Book 1 (The Shimerdas), Chapter 12

In My Ántonia

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Willa Cather and Willa Sibert Cather


My Ántonia tells the stories of several immigrant families who move out to rural Nebraska to start new lives in America, with a parti…

Chapter 2- Servant

In Work: A Story of Experience

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Louisa May Alcott


It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

Hat Tricks

In Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

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Professor Louis Hoffman


This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, t…

Are Editors People?

In Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

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Heywood Broun


This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…

15 THE PICTURE

In Dark Hollow

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Anna Katharine Green


The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is conv…

In a Garden - Read by WEB

In In a Garden

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Amy Lowell


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of In a Garden by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of Octob…

To Charles Dickens

In Letters to Dead Authors

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Andrew Lang


With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

The Golden Rule, Part I

In Stories in Black and White

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Margaret O. Oliphant


This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

A Memory

In The Great Small Cat and Others

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May E. Southworth


A collection of seven tales about cats. Caution: Some of these tales have very sad endings. (Summary by MaryAnn)

07 - Of Bashfulness

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

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Plutarch and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Chapter 21, part 01

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

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David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

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