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In Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur

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Omar Khayyam, trans. Thompson and Omar Khayyám


In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This editi…

Chapter I - The Inked Surplice

In The Channings

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Ellen Wood and Mrs. Henry Wood


This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The "stars" of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Cha…

Canto the First

In The Island

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Written late in his career, Byron's narrative poem The Island tells the famous story of the mutiny on board the Bounty, and follows the muti…

Part 2

In Hippolytus

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Euripides


Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by c…

Preface and Chapter 1

In Moving the Mountain

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodica…

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