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Chapter 12: In which everybody is asked to Dinner

In The Newcomes

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William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Book V, Chapters 24 to 32

In The History of Rome, volume 1

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Titus Livius

The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…

Harmony in Presentation

In Problems of the Playwright

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Clayton Hamilton

A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in S…

Mary Magdalene. A tradition of Nain

In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16

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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

The Rambler No, 148, The Cruelty of Parental Tyranny

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082

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Samuel Johnson

"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…

Chapter 16

In A Book About Myself

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Theodore Dreiser

A book written by Theodore Dreiser detailing a history of his life and how he became a writer. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Chapter X

In Silas Marner (Version 3)

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George Eliot

Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from…

CHAPTER II

In Syria: the Desert and the Sown

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…