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Ten Days in a Madhouse

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Nellie Bly

In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an …

Ragged Dick

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Horatio Alger, Jr.

Horatio Alger, Jr. was well known for his best-selling series of books highlighting “the American Dream” of poor boys making good and becomi…

The Little Lame Prince

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Paralyzed in an accident while a baby, young Prince Dolor is imprisoned in a lonely tower by his usurping uncle. He is visited by his myster…

Chapter III, Part 3

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

The Three Roses

In The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales

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translated by Joseph Baudis and Joseph Baudis

Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roo…

Chapter 17

In Oliver Twist

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Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial.Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to ca…

Lenten Dishes

In Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

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Rufus Estes

Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …

A Chapter of Accidents

In Anne of Avonlea

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L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery

Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of…