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"I'll Give You a Hundred Guinea Brooch"

In The Eustace Diamonds

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Anthony Trollope


Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…

On Getting Up On Cold Mornings

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011

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Leigh Hunt


A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection…

The End of Cleopatra

In Cleopatra

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Jacob Abbott


A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.

Modern Educational Reform

In Selected Essays

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Voltairine de Cleyre and Voltairine De Cleyre


Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced.&…

Maximilian’s Avowal, alternate version

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Chapter VII

In The Professor

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Charlotte Brontë


The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a profes…

33 - Recollections of St. Domingo

In I Say No

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Wilkie Collins


Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, t…

1772 part 1

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

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James Boswell


Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

Book 2: March - August, A.D. 69 pt 4

In Tacitus' Histories

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Tacitus-Church/Brodribb and Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasia…

Chant sixième, strophe 3 : Les magasins de la rue Vivienne...

In Les Chants de Maldoror

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Comte de Lautreamont and Comte De Lautréamont


Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte …

27 - Chapter 27

In Ivanhoe

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Sir Walter Scott


Follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another.…

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