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09 Counterparts


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James Joyce - Dubliners   09 Dubliners - Counterparts The ninth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Farrington, a lumbering alcoholic scr…

The Absentee

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Maria Edgeworth


Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of man…

The Man Without A Country And Other Tales

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Edward Everett Hale


Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contri…

The Damnation of Theron Ware

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Harold Frederic


The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. It is widely consid…

01 The Sisters


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James Joyce - Dubliners   01/15   The Sisters The opening story in James Joyce's Dubliners. After the priest Father Flynn dies, a …

03 Araby


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James Joyce - Dubliners   03/15 Dubliners - Araby The third story in James Joyce's Dubliners. A boy falls in love with the sister of hi…

07 The Boarding House


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James Joyce - Dubliners   07 Dubliners - The Boarding House The seventh story in James Joyce's Dubliners.  Mrs  Mooney succes…

06 Two Gallants


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James Joyce - Dubliners   06 Dubliners - Two Gallants The sixth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Two con men, Lenehan and Corley, find…

10 Clay


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James Joyce - Dubliners   10 Dubliners - Clay The tenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. The spinster Maria, a laundress, celebrates H…

14 Grace


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James Joyce - Dubliners   14 Grace This is the fourteenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. After Mr. Kernan injures himself falling do…

11 A Painful Case


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James Joyce - Dubliners   11 A Painful Case The eleventh story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mr Duffy rebuffs Mrs Sinico, then, four year…

12 Ivy Day In The Committee Room


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James Joyce - Dubliners   12 Ivy Day In The Committee Room This is the twelfth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Minor politicians fail…

His Masterpiece

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Émile Zola


“His Masterpiece" (“L’Oeuvre”) is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging Realism, …

A Defence of Idealism

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May Sinclair


The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining…

The New Idealism

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May Sinclair


The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…

13 A Mother


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James Joyce - Dubliners   13 A Mother This is the thirteenth story in James Joyce's Dubliners. Mrs Kearney tries to win a place of prid…

08 A Little Cloud


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James Joyce - Dubliners   08 Dubliners - A Little Cloud The eighth story in James Joyce's Dubliners.  Little  Chandler's dinn…

The Lifted Veil (Version 2)

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George Eliot


George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Midd…

The Untempered Wind

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Joanna E. Wood


Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the …

The Girl From the Marsh Croft

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Selma Lagerlöf


Readers of Miss Lagerlöf will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has …

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