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The Nest of the Sparrowhawk: A Romance of the XVIIth Century

Read by Deon Gines

Baroness Emma Orczy

This historical novel takes place in Kent in 1657, and focuses on a local nobleman who stops at nothing to gain wealth, and his ward who is …

Anne of Geierstein, Volume 2

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Sir Walter Scott

Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is an adventure and romance novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mai…

Chapter Fourteen

In Jacob's Room (version 2)

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s third novel lacks a conventional narrative style and some say even a plot. It follows Jacob from his childhood, through his…

Cultural Beginnings

In Prehistoric Men

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Robert J. Braidwood and Robert J. Braidwood

This little book, first published in 1948, is part of the Chicago Natural History Popular History series that explains difficult subjects in…

The Romance of a Mummy - Chapter 8

In The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

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Théophile Gautier

The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the sub…

Chapter 20, Part 1

In A Half Century of Conflict

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Francis Parkman, Jr.

Francis Parkman (1823-1893) is one of the great nineteenth century United States historians along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley…

Celtic Literature, by William Sharp and Ernest Rhys, I - Irish, Part II

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08

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Ernest Rhys

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…

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