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Reading: An Essay
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Pleasures of Reading
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 03
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
The Oxford Solid State Basics
University of Oxford Podcasts
White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
Blindfolded
Giles Dudley is called upon by his cousin Henry Wilton to assist him in San Francisco, but the reason for the summons is not at all clear. D…
EDYL
It's 2046 and Jake Radley has the career opportunity of a lifetime. But to take it he needs to acquire a strange, mysterious new skill. A s…
Chapter 2
In Transient
Governor Alman Lampley makes an unplanned stop in a small town on the way to his destination. Everything looks familiar yet slightly off. He…
The American Newspaper
In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 017
Explore a diverse array of ideas and insights in this engaging collection of short nonfiction works. Curated by dedicated volunteers, this a…
Preface
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
The Finding Of Zach
In The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
A Consultation
In Little Stories
Physician and author S. Weir Mitchell brings us a short collection of stories of the human condition. Through diverse settings as the mystic…
The Crystal Man
In Short Science Fiction Collection 050
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
The Readers' Corner, Part B
In Astounding Stories 15, March 1931
This issue includes "When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummin…
The Channel
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Part 2
In An Unfinished Story
A very congenial dinner party is ongoing. Among the distinguished guests are also one author and one painter, who have just been told that t…
The Novelette Reader
In Machine-Room Chants
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was publish…
Christopherson
In The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
65. Revealing
In A Lover's Diary
A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone…
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In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
In Luck
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 07, Dec. 16, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…