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55 - Not Very Fie Fie after All

In The Small House at Allington

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Anthony Trollope


Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her t…

03 - On Board the Typhoon

In The Story of a Bad Boy

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich


Thomas Bailey Aldrich was a child when his father moved to New Orleans from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After 10 years, Aldrich was sent back…

01 - The Great Terror

In Dawn

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Eleanor H. Porter


Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going …

03 - The God of all comfort

In The God of All Comfort

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Hannah Whitall Smith


This book is written to Christians who profess to believe the Bible as God's revelation, but whose "lives are filled with discomfort an…

03 - Chapter 1 Part 3

In My Life in the South

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Jacob Stroyer


My Life in the South is the vivid and touching autobiography of African-American former slave, Jacob Stroyer. It recounts experiences from …

The Weights and Measures

In The Three Clerks

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Anthony Trollope


The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a…

The Gold-Bug, Part 1

In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 1

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Edgar Allan Poe


This, the first of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 8 of his short stories as well as reflections, critiques, and eulogies by othe…

At Five O'Clock in the Morning

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905-1906

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

Preface

In Madam How and Lady Why

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Charles Kingsley


Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book ha…

38 - Jael.

In The Last Chronicle of Barset

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Anthony Trollope


Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…

Ch 4 - The Blacks

In Benito Cereno

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Herman Melville


On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvio…

26 - Laughing Eye and Weeping Eye, or the Limping Fox

In The Grey Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang


The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other re…