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Chapter III, Part 1

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…

Version 11

In Jabberwocky

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Lewis Carroll

LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of J…

Chapter 1: The Rights and Involved Duties Of Mankind Considered

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown

In The Club of Queer Trades

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G. K. Chesterton

A collection of six wonderfully quirky detective stories, featuring the 'mystic' former judge Basil Grant. Each story reveals a practitioner…

Chapter V: Ocean Camp

In South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917

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Ernest Shackleton

Shackleton's most famous expedition was planned to be an attempt to cross Antarctica from the Weddell Sea south of the Atlantic to the Ross …

Robin Hood and the Tinker

In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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Howard Pyle

Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…

Sonnet I

In Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems

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Charlotte Turner Smith

Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the c…

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