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The Pack Ass and The Wild Ass

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 08 (Fables 176-200)

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Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Poor Joanna

In The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Sarah Orne Jewett


The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

Chapter 18

In Don Quixote - Vol. 1

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

III.I: In Secret

In A Tale of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, …

Habsburg Rule in the Netherlands

In History of Holland

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George Edmundson


The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province…

Robin Hood Turns Beggar

In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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Howard Pyle


Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…

Chapter 22

In The Last of the Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 (version 2)

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James Fenimore Cooper


This story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns a Huron massacre (with passive French a…

Trimmed Lamp, The

In The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million

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O. Henry


Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…

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