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Hamlet at the Lyceum

In Reviews

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Oscar Wilde, ed. Robert Ross and Oscar Wilde


Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would hav…

Chapter 01

In Planet of the Damned

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Harry Harrison


Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical …

My Lord Bag of Rice

In Japanese Fairy Tales

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Yei Theodora Ozaki


First published in 1908, this is a book of "beautiful legends and fairy tales of Japan" that were collected, translated and retold…

New France In 1665

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 06 - The Great Intendant: A Chronicle of Jean Talon…

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Thomas Chapais


Talon worked closely with lieutenant-general Prouville de Tracy to achieve the surrender of the Iroquois in 1627, thereby ending the threat …

The Story of the Lady who was Murdered, and of the Young Man her Husband

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

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Anonymous, translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott and Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then …

A Clever Conquest

In Tik-Tok of Oz

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L. Frank Baum


Betsy Bobbin encounters many strange and exciting adventures and people in the land of Oz; a side-plot is Queen Ann of Oogaboo's mission to …

An Old-Fashioned Card-Party — The Clergyman’s Verses — The Story Of The Convict…

In The Pickwick Papers

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Charles Dickens


The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, better known as The Pickwick Papers, is the first novel by Charles Dickens. Written for publicat…