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Chapter XIV

In A Drop in Infinity

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Gerald Grogan


This 1915 sci-fi book is possibly the first work to use in its plot what we would now call a parallel universe. Jack Thorpe and Marjorie Mat…

Harmonies Poetiques

In Life of Liszt

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Ludwig Nohl


The Hungarian virtuoso pianist and composer, Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886), is still regarded as one of the greatest classical musicians of all …

Fireworks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Part 1

In Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

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Alan St. Hill Brock


Captain St. Hill Brock presents here, in Part I, a brief history of pyrotechnics from origins in the East through the present. Part II delv…

CHAPTER XX AMBUSHED BY LADRONES

In Across the Andes

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Charles Johnson Post


“The legion that never was listed,”The soft-lilting rhythm and song,The starlight, and shadowy tropics,The palms—and all that belong;The unk…

A Tale of Two Cities (version 3)

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Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

Grimms' Fairy Tales (version 2)

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 b…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Version 2)

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Washington Irving


"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon…

The Republic (version 2)

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Plato


The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the j…

Heart of Darkness (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

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Henry David Thoreau


Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version)

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Oscar Wilde


The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…

Common Sense (version 2)

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Thomas Paine


Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet…

Phaedo

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Plato


Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was fi…

The Art of War (Version 4)

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Sun Tzu 孙武


The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The…

The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 2)

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H. G. Wells


In this classic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel …

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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Friedrich Engels


The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …

The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2)

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originall…

Notes From The Underground (version 2)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presen…