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The Miser's Servant

In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

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Cecil Henry Bompas and Unknowntranslated Bycecil Henry Bompas


This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…

Apollo and Daphne--Pyramus and Thisbe--Cephalus and Procris

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Book X: Ulysses and Diomed go out as spies

In The Iliad

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Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Letter XXXVIII

In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

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Samuel Richardson


Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent…

Chapter 07

In War and Peace, Book 07: 1810-1811

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Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Chapter 18

In Eothen, or Impressions of Travel brought Home from the East

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Alexander Kinglake and Alexander William Kinglake


A classic of Victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in…

Chapter 13

In An American Politician

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F. Marion Crawford and Francis Marion Crawford


In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and th…

Chapter LXIV: Moguls, Ottoman Turks Part II

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

The Pensioner

In Short Story Collection Vol. 029

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William Caine


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 029: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

6.4 Change and Continuity

In The 9/11 Commission Report

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9/11 Commission


9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official…

Heiko

In Der Fliegende Holländer

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Julius Wolff


Wolff gehört zu den sogenannten Butzenscheibendichtern. Dieser Begriff wurde zuerst 1884 von Paul Heyse verwendet, um damit zeitgen&oum…

Deel 1

In Jan, Jannetje en hun jongste kind

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E.J. Potgieter and E. J. Potgieter


Een allegorisch verhaal als commentaar op de toestand van de Nederlandse samenleving anno 1841, in de ogen van E.J. Potgieter. Jan en Jannet…

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