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A Quintet --- Death of William Cullen Bryant

In Specimen Days

Read by Belinda Brown

Walt Whitman

Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Showing How Alice Was Punished

In Can You Forgive Her?

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Anthony Trollope

“Can You Forgive Her?” is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene. It introdu…

Book 5, Chapter 43: The Verdict

In Adam Bede

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George Eliot

Adam Bede, the first novel written by George Eliot (the pen name of Mary Ann Evans), was published in 1859. It was published pseudonymously,…

012 - Recipes. Chapter 6. Part 5.

In The Book of Household Management

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Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton

"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…

Chapter 32

In The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2

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Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Chapter 11

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 1

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Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest

This is volume 1 of 3. Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampy…