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Utopia (Burnet translation)

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Thomas More

This book is all about the fictional country called Utopia. It is a country with an ‘ideal’ form of communism, in which everything really do…

Chapter VI

In The Children of the New Forest

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Frederick Marryat

The children of Colonel Beverley, a Cavalier officer killed at the Battle of Naseby are believed to have died in the flames when their house…

Ch. 17 Part 1: Balls and Dances (para. 1-53)

In Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

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Emily Post

From advice on planning the perfect wedding to eating an artichoke correctly, Emily Post offers instruction on how to live a well-mannered l…

Part 1 - The Air-Ship

In The Machine Stops

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E. M. Forster

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the sur…

UNLOOKED-FOR ARRIVALS

In Wives and Daughters

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book!Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest Brit…

The Hand of God

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas

The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

REDDY FOX JOINS THE SCHOOL -- The Red, Black and Silver Foxes, Gray Fox, Kit Fo…

In The Burgess Animal Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess

Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…