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CHAPTER II

In Syria: the Desert and the Sown

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…

Book I, Chapters 49 to 60

In The History of Rome, volume 1

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Titus Livius

The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…

Harmony in Presentation

In Problems of the Playwright

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Clayton Hamilton

A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in S…

Chapter 12: In which everybody is asked to Dinner

In The Newcomes

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William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Chapter X

In Silas Marner (Version 3)

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George Eliot

Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from…

The Rambler No, 148, The Cruelty of Parental Tyranny

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082

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Samuel Johnson

"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…

Mary Magdalene. A tradition of Nain

In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16

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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

Chapter 16

In A Book About Myself

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Theodore Dreiser

A book written by Theodore Dreiser detailing a history of his life and how he became a writer. - Summary by Michele Eaton