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Book 8, Chapter 16 Part 3: Spheres of Action - Miscellaneous Business

In History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 4

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Henry Charles Lea


The fourth and final volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume discusses how the Inquisition dealt with mystic…

Facing the Secretary of the Navy

In The Submarine Boys for the Flag

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Victor G. Durham


It certainly has been an odd day for our Submarine Boys! First Jack Benson is asked by a German Professor to speak with him a hotel, then …

Encke the Astronomer

In Light Science for Leisure Hours

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Richard A. Proctor


In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with a…

The Student and his Certificate

In Elsie Venner

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…

Given up by the Waters

In Alice; or The Wages of Sin

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Frederic Werden Pangborn


This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm…

Chapter I

In The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow

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Adelbert von Chamisso


Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds …

The Labyrinth

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Francis Stevens


This story takes place in Marshall City, the fictional capital of an unnamed Midwestern state, where the cousin of millionaire Hildreth Wynd…

Joanna Traill, Spinster

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Annie E. Holdsworth


Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …

A Christmas Carol (version 05)

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Charles Dickens


The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is a cold-hearted man of business and has little time for the good humor and charity of the Christmas season. B…

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard

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Baroness Emma Orczy


Lady Molly of Scotland Yard is a collection of short stories about Molly Robertson-Kirk, an early fictional female detective. It was written…

The Haunted Bookshop

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Christopher Morley


Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop, a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is "haunted by the…

The Fairy Tales of Science

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John Cargill Brough


This book, written in the mid 19th century and illustrated by Charles H. Bennett, provides an entertaining introduction to topics in science…

Night and Day

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Virginia Woolf


Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharin…

The Old Man in the Corner

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Baroness Emma Orczy


Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detecti…