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The Aërial Acrobat Pt 3 In Which the Author Tries His Hand with Professional Tr…

In Careers of Danger and Daring

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Cleveland Moffett


In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed…

33 - A Fairy's Blunder

In The Grey Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other re…

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In Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry

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Émile Gaboriau


Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story :Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the ol…

11 - Book IV ch.16-19

In Commentaries on the Gallic War

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Julius Caesar and Gaius Julius Caesar


Commentarii de Bello Gallico (English: Commentaries on the Gallic War) is Julius Caesar's firsthand account of the Gallic Wars, written as a…

Preface to American Edition

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 2)

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Jerome K. Jerome


Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

06 - The Italian in New York

In How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York

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Jacob Riis and Jacob A. Riis


How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York (1890) was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting…

03 - The Strata - When the Letter Comes

In Miss Billy

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Eleanor H. Porter


Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, …

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