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Chapter IX, Part 3

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 09)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This is chapter 9 of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the accession of James II. This chapter covers part of the invasion…

Lazarus by Leonid Andreyev

In Famous Modern Ghost Stories

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Dorothy Scarborough, compiler, Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev and Variousanddorothy Scarborough

An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of moder…

Bk 11: Ch 04-06

In The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

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Henry Fielding

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foun…

THE HALL OF THE ATLAS (2900 words)

In The Sleeper Awakes

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H. G. Wells

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, b…

For a Comforter

In Exercises in Knitting

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Cornelia Mee

Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain prac…

Significant Phrases: pains and penalties - puzzled and affected

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Chapter 22

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

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Written by Kathleen Gatliffe, recorded by Kathleen Gatliffe and Librivox Volunteers

The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

1-07 Part First - Chapter 7

In Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

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In The Devil's Dictionary

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Governor Hunt, Human and Just

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones

Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…