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Chapter I, The Discovery of America, Part 1

In Poems of American History, The Colonial Era

Read by Douglas Taylor

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A History through Poetry of the exploration and settling of North American by Europeans. Beginning with Leif Erikson, and continuing throug…

The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee

In Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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William Butler Yeats

This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…

The Detective

In The Technique of the Mystery Story

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Carolyn Wells

For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwe…

Selected excerpts by Cervantes, part II

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

The Lord of Space by Victor Rousseau, part 1

In Astounding Stories 08, August 1930

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Arthur J. Burks

Issue eight of this seminal science-fiction magazineCONTENTSMurder Madness by Murray Leinster - the conclusion of this novelEarth the Maurad…

Phalanxes of Atlans by F. V. W. Mason, "What Has Gone Before" and Chapter 7

In Astounding Stories 15, March 1931

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Ray Cummings

This issue includes "When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummin…

THE WEE BANNOCK

In More English Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs

"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…