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Ch 08: The East Wind, pt 1 (3002 words)

In Hypatia

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Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associa…

The Schoolmistress

In Short Story Collection Vol. 031

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Anton Chekhov

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 031: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Venial to Virtue

In English Synonyms and Antonyms

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James Champlin Fernald

English Synonyms and Antonyms is basically a vocabulary builder that students might use as they prepare for entrance or exit exams. Each ent…

32 - Chapter XIII - Survivals of the Non-Invidious Interests, Part One

In The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Thorstein Veblen

Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the…

13 - Book 1, Chapter 13

In The History of Pompey the Little

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Francis Coventry

"Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages." At an e…

Maiden Speech, 1901

In Selected House of Commons Speeches

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Winston Churchill and Winston S. Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

Chapter 7

In The Custom of the Country

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Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…

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