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In A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar

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George Bethune English


As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the…

Section 1

In The Flood

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Émile Zola


A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…

Chapter 31

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…

Introduction

In The Life of Alfred the Great

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Asser, Bishop of Sherborne and Bishop Of Sherbourne Asser


A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some…

Chapter I. The Frontier

In The Oregon Trail

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Francis Parkman, Jr.


The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkm…

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