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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…

031 - 夕次盱眙縣 (Mooring at Twilight in Yuyi District) (Mandarin) by Wei Yingwu 韋應物

In 唐诗三百首 卷一 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1

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Wei Yingwu and Yingwu Wei 韋應物


The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architectur…

Chapter 11

In Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë


Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished wit…

CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE

In The Three Musketeers

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Alexandre Dumas


The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Requirements of Speech

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

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Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

What Men Live By

In What Men Live By and Other Tales

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Leo Tolstoy


Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…

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In The Metamorphosis

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Franz Kafka (trans. Ian Johnston) and Franz Kafka


The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arg…

SIXTY-FIVE WAYS TO COOK MACKEREL

In How to Cook Fish

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Olive Green and Myrtle Reed


Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

The Flea

In Short Poetry Collection 028

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John Donne


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 028: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Hedge Sparrow

In Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2

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John Clare


John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature po…

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