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1 - 13 - Book the First, Chapter 13

In The Black Robe

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Wilkie Collins


The church has lost out on a valuable piece of land through wars and transfers. Father Benwell is determined to reclaim that property by the…

51 - Book 6, Chapter 6 Part 2

In History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 2

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Henry Charles Lea


Volume 2 of Lea’s monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. Volume 2 discusses the organizational structure of the Inquisition, methods us…

09 - The Giant Who had no Heart in his Body

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen


Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…

Chapter 7 - Two Famous Versions of the Scriptures

In The Bible in Its Making

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Mildred Duff and Noel Hope and Mildred Duff


One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the …

Chapter 50

In Robbery Under Arms

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Rolf Boldrewood


A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight.To quote the author "tho…

Poem 222 - 贫女 (Mandarin)

In 唐诗三百首 卷四 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4

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Qin Taoyu


Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four …

Chapter 5

In Little Men (version 2)

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Louisa May Alcott


Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, P…

A Collection of Letters, Part 3 (Letter the Fifth and Scraps)

In Jane Austen's Juvenilia

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Jane Austen


Before becoming the author of such classics as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma, Jane Austen experimented with various w…

Gipsy

In Lords of the Housetops: Thirteen Cat Tales

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Booth Tarkington


The Lords of the Housetops reveals the cat through the creative lenses of 13 authors. Consequently, this carefully chosen collection of stor…

11 - Griselda Grantly

In Framley Parsonage

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Anthony Trollope


Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in se…

32 - Book 8, Chapter 1

In The Female Quixote Vol. 2

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Charlotte Lennox


Second Volume of the novel that formally inverts Don Quixote: as the don mistakes himself for the knightly hero of a Romance, so Arabella mi…

01 - Characters

In Belinda

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Maria Edgeworth


When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented i…