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Sweet Porridge

In Mother’s Nursery Tales

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Katharine Pyle


Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like…

Chapter XV - The Obstacle Beats Me

In The Two Destinies

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Wilkie Collins


Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…

15 - The Division

In The Covered Wagon

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Emerson Hough


"Look at 'em come, Jesse! More and more! Must be forty or fifty families." This is an old-fashioned adventure tale set on the Oreg…

Chapter VIII

In A Rogue's Life

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Wilkie Collins


"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens f…

06 - Chapter 6: Sentence of Exile

In Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon


This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …