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In The Three Musketeers

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Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Chapter 05

In The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

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Edgar Allan Poe

The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838.The work relates the tale of the…

Bk1 Ch2 Pt2

In This Side of Paradise

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke po…

2-04 Part Second - Chapter 4

In Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

The Death of Baldur--The Elves--Runic Letters--Skalds--Iceland--Teutonic Mythol…

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

The Phonograph

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer

A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Chapter IX: Part 1 & 2

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Chapter XXX

In The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …

The Forests - Part 1

In The Mountains of California

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John Muir

John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and …

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