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Persuasion (version 7)

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Jane Austen


Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to get out of debt, rents their home to an Admiral. The brother of the…

14 - Chapter XIV. In the Siren Country

In When Knighthood Was in Flower

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Charles Major


Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henr…

Chapter 29, part 1

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

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David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

BOOK I. CHAPTER XV. PART I

In The Heavenly Twins

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Sarah Grand


First published in 1893, this novel came to question many subjects which were considered taboo. Through a few interconnected plots and sub p…

Chapter 7

In The Romance of the Forest

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Ann Radcliffe


A Gothic novel famously mentioned by Jane Austen in "Northanger Abbey" as an inspiration for the romantic ideals and supernatural …