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The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe

In The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Tur…

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Eva March Tappan

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…

The Tarantula

In Insect Adventures

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Jean-Henri Fabre

This book is composed of selections from Alexander Teixeira de Mattos’ Translation of Fabre’s “Souvenirs Entomologiques,” retold for childre…

Section 44: letters 52-54: from miss Grenville to lady Stanley

In The Sylph

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Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire and Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire

Georgianna Cavendish, duchess of Devonshire was one of the leading ladies of her time. There for, her novel, which contains many autobiograp…

Pt 3 Ch 5 The Furniture-Van

In The Luggage of Life

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Frank W. Boreham

This collection contains 32 essays by the respected Baptist preacher Frank Boreham. Writing on topics that range from falling in love to eat…

Introductory Note

In A Spring Harvest

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Geoffrey Bache Smith

G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…

Letters 25-26

In The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth

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William Hill Brown

The Power of Sympathy was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of t…

Author's Preface

In A Year's Prayer-Meeting Talks

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Louis Albert Banks

This is a series of 52 talks, all of which were delivered by Rev. Banks in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland, Ohio on a week…

Introduction

In Greek Literature

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Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard

"The Greeks were the most intellectual people of the old world. … The study of Greek literature is therefore a proper element in a libe…

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