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Varieties of Religious Experience

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William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comp…

Gossip in a Library

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Edmund Gosse

A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…

13 - Book 1, Chapter 13

In The History of Pompey the Little

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Francis Coventry

"Pompey, the son of Julio and Phyllis, was born A.D. 1735, at Bologna in Italy, a place famous for lap-dogs and sausages." At an e…

Chapter 7

In Father and Son

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Edmund Gosse

Father and Son (1907) is a memoir by poet and critic Edmund Gosse, which he subtitled "a study of two temperaments." The book desc…

Day 1, The First Story

In The Decameron

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Giovanni Boccaccio

The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and…