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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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Washington Irving

The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America’s colo…

American Indian Fairy Tales

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William Trowbridge Larned

With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by…

Sarrasine

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Honoré de Balzac

Published by Honoré de Balzac in the tempestuous year of 1830, the tale follows the undulating pathways of Sarrasine the sculptor’s s…

War Is Kind (Collection)

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Stephen Crane

Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in…

Miltiades Sails to the Island of Paros

In The Story of Greece: Told to Boys and Girls

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Mary Esther Miller Macgregor

A retelling of Greek myths, history and stories aimed at children.

The Meteor Girl

In Short Science Fiction Collection 082

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Jack Williamson

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…

Moses by Henry George

In Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 3

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Charles F. Horne

A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Alfred…

The Polka Dot Lady

In The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug (Version 2)

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Arthur Scott Bailey

"Little Mrs. Ladybug was a worker. Nobody could deny that. To be sure, she had to stop now and then to talk to her neighbors, because M…

Chapter 25

In The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography

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Silas Weir Mitchell

Departing from the usual third person narratives of biographies, this account is told in the first person as the reminiscences of a now reti…

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In The Moon and Sixpence (version 2)

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William Somerset Maugham and W. Somerset Maugham

The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in …