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Mornings at Bow Street

Read by Chris Caron

John Wight

This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces o…

19 - Ch. 19:Captain Thorn at West Lynne

In East Lynne

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Mrs. Henry Wood

Ellen Wood (1814-1887) was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Ly…

05 - Introduction Part 5

In Rob Roy

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Sir Walter Scott

Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the…

Chapter 1.XLIII.—How the scouts and fore-party of Picrochole were met with by G…

In Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

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Francois Rabelais and François Rabelais

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…

Ch. 21, pt. 1

In Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphan…

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John Foxe, William B. Forbush, ed. and John Foxe

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

The Capture of Philadelphia

In True to the Old Flag

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G. A. Henty

This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag …

21 - Modeste Plays her Part

In Modeste Mignon

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Honoré de Balzac

Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…

25 - Partition 1, Section 2, Member 2, Subsections 4-6

In The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1

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Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

35 - Chapter 35

In John Halifax, Gentleman

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Dinah Craik and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fle…