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MIT 24.264 Film as Visual and Literary Mythmaking, Fall 2005


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Instructor: Irving Singer This course examines problems in the philosophy of film as well as literature studied in relation to their making…

Legends of Charlemagne (Version 2)

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Thomas Bulfinch


This study of Charlemagne is directed at the general literature reading public. Although the author tried to remain true to the legend and m…

The Underground City or the Child of the Cavern

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Jules Verne


Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiv…

The Luck of the Dudley Grahams

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Alice Calhoun Haines


The Luck of the Dudley Grahams is the story of the four Graham children and their recently widowed mother, trying to make ends meet by takin…

The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan

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Edwin P. Norwood


Diggeldy Dan (rhymes with Wiggildy Wan) is a most ingenious fellow who lives in a circus called Spangleland. He looks like a clown because …

On Reading The Bible

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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch


These are three lectures (numbers 8, 9, 10) excerpted from the author’s 1920 book On The Art Of Reading. The lectures were delivered to stu…

Pelayo: or Cavern of Covadonga, A Romance

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Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie


This epic poem tells the dramatic story of King Pelayo, an Asturian ruler in Northern Spain who lead his people to a hard-fought victory ove…

Time to Rethink Our Attitude to Singleness


Sheridan Voysey


More and more of us are single. In the United Kingdom, over a third of the adult population of England and Wales are single, more than half …

White Trash Land

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Andrew Beatty


Chuck Mitchell thought he had everything –a high powered job, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive condo on the Toronto waterfront, but the …

Dick Tracy



One of the longest running young-adult-oriented old radio shows during the golden age of radio was the widely popular "Dick Tracy."…

Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topi…

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Daniel Wallace Culp


The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, w…

Bible (KJV) 26: Ezekiel

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King James Version


The book of Ezekiel follows the southern kingdom of Israel, Judah, into captivity by the Babylonians. Ezekiel cries judgement on the Israeli…

Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse

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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the third volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…

Poems from the Divan of Hafiz

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Hafiz and Hafez


Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mysti…

The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse

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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…

Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse

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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…

Beowulf (Hall translation)

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Unknowntranslated Byjohn Lesslie Hall and Translated Byjohn Lesslie Hall


The most famous piece of Old English literature, Beowulf was written by an unknown poet at least 1000 years ago and tells how the eponymous …

Napoleon, A Short Biography

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Robert Matteson Johnston


This is a 'lightning biography' which serves as an introduction to the field of Napoleonic history. Its purpose is to enable the ordinary re…

Bedtime

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George MacDonald


George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the …

The Cloak (Version 2)

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


The Cloak or the Overcoat as in some translations, is a story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story a…

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