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The Ordeal of Mark Twain

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Van Wyck Brooks

This book, published in 1920, analyzes the literary progression of Samuel Clemens and his shortcomings (which are debatable). Brooks attribu…

Chapter One, Part 2

In What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Reche…

The Vacant Country

In A Story of the Days to Come

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H. G. Wells

Set in London in the early 22nd century, this novella depicts the troubles of two lovers, Denton and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a well-to-do wo…

Paul's Mission to Athens

In Twenty-five Sermons on The Holy Land

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Thomas De Witt Talmage

When Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage went to visit the Holy Land, he wrote sermons for his home church and sent them back to be read. It resulted in …

10 - Part VIa: The ____

In Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography

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Laurence Oliphant

Laurence Oliphant, author, international traveller, diplomatist and mystic, who spent a decade in later life under the influence of the spir…

A Day with Rossetti

In A Day With Great Poets

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May Gillington Byron

Who was John Milton? The author of Paradise Lost you say? Well, certainly, but he was also a man, going about his daily life like any of us …

11 - The Pink and Blue Eggs

In The Sandman's Hour

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Abbie Phillips Walker

Reading bedtime stories to children can be a wonderful way to relax and at the same time act out the exciting things happening in the story …

Lord Northmuir's Young Relative

In The Girl Who Had Nothing

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Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

The Girl Who Had Nothing is about a young orphan girl in desperate circumstances, who throws herself on the mercy of an elderly stranger. By…