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The Men Who Found America

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Frederick Winthrop Hutchinson


This Book is about the Men Who Found America and how it started - Summary by Elijah

The Battle of the Books

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Jonathan Swift


"The Battle of the Books" depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of…

Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer

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Richard Steele


Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…

Days With Sir Roger de Coverley

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Joseph Addison


The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…

The P. C. and P. O.

In Little Women (version 4)

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Louisa May Alcott


Little Women is the classic story of the March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls–Practical, yet fashion cons…

Protection of the Southern Frontier

In The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1

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Charles E. Flandrau


"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…

THE ENGLISH FLAG

In The Kipling Reader

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Rudyard Kipling


These are selections of Kipling's writings; some poems, some fiction, some history but all by the master storyteller himself. Rikki-Tikki-Ta…

A Journey Inland

In The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

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H. A. Guerber


These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run fr…

A Lazy Fellow's Fun

In Wood Folk at School

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William J. Long


The unique merit of this nature student rests in his fascinating style of writing, which invariably interests young and old; for without thi…

Part I: ''The Night is Far Spent.'' - Chapter I: The Vision on the Housetop

In Paul: A Herald of the Cross

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Florence Morse Kingsley


This is an exciting sequel to the earlier books Titus: A Comrade of the Cross and Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross. It tells the story of the…

Tom's first royal dinner.

In The Prince and the Pauper (version 2)

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Mark Twain


One day a poor boy, Tom, gets a little too near the gates of the palace. and the guards start to beat him. However the prince himself interv…