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The History of the Caliph Vathek

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William Beckford

This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not …

The Beckoning Fair One

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Oliver Onions

A classic ghost story of a haunted house, and the haunted man who lives in it.

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In Herodotus' Histories Vol 2

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Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Bernardino Pinturicchio

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 4

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Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

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In Essays book 1

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Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

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In The Odyssey (Book 6)

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Homer

Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, is asleep when Athena comes to her to suggest that she go down to the river the next…

bk3_00 - The Legende of Britomartis - Prologue

In The Faerie Queene Book 3

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Edmund Spenser

"The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie."The Faerie Queene was never completed,…

Book V Chapter 07: A Bold Stroke

In Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress

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Frances Burney

The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find…

04 - Ch 20: Rebellions in Germany & Judea (69-70 A.D.) Sect. I

In The Students’ Roman Empire part 2, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Found…

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John Bagnell Bury

The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …