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My Native Land

In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

Read by Rosalind Walsh

Various

A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens

Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Bk 3, Paradise: Canto XII - Canto XVI

In The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Letter Writing

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

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Joseph Devlin

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Chapter X, Part 5

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 10)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This chapter begins with the flight of James II and then moves on to the downfall of Judge Jeffreys and the arrival of Dutch troops in Londo…

Book Six, Part 1

In Paradise Lost

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John Milton

Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

Paper pills

In Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson

Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …

Book The First Chapter 4 A Decree of Banishment

In Charlotte's Inheritance

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to stud…

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