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Ogier the Dane pt 2

In The Legends of Charlemagne

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Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch (July 15, 1796 - May 27, 1867) explains the his work is "an attempt tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make …

Chapter X

In Ramona

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Helen Hunt Jackson


Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and ge…

1-04 - The Borgias: Chapter 2

In Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

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Alexandre Dumas [pere] and Alexandre Dumas


Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent …

Chapter I, A Chance Meeting, Chapter II, Bad News

In Clementina

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A. E. W. Mason


This well-written novel is a fictional account of a true historical rescue mission. In 1719, at the age of 17, when she was on her way acros…

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