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Chapter 33, Part 2

In The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)

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Alessandro Manzoni

The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…

The Son-in-Law, by John Kendrick Bangs

In The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors

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John Kendrick Bangs(1862-1922) and John Kendrick Bangs

A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage…

Chapter 149

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

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Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest

This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…

03 - Lady Delacour's History (Part 1)

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…

11 That John Mason

In Off-Hand Sketches

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T. S. Arthur

The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at…

1 - Chapter I

In The Log-Cabin Lady

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Unknown

'The story of The Log-Cabin Lady is one of the annals of America. It is a moving record of the conquest of self-consciousness and fear throu…

XVI - Birds - Concluded Part 1

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 2

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Charles Darwin

Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great boo…

Beauty Becomes Immortal.

In A Fair Mystery

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Charlotte M. Brame and Charlotte M Brame

(Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.)Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home t…