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24 - Book 15, Chapters 9 - 18:The various kinds of fruit-trees and their nature…

In The Natural History Volume 3

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Pliny the Elder


Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

36 - Chapter 36 It was all a Dream

In The Peril Finders

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George Fenn and George Manville Fenn


In California settlers are trying to make a living working as fruit-growers. Problems with blights and insects mean that the crops are faili…

Part 3 The Evidences of Evolution – Section 3 Paleontology – Chapter 37a The Ev…

In Organic Evolution

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Richard Swann Lull


Organic Evolution is a college textbook that describes the mechanism of biological evolution by natural selection. It then explores the evid…

Seven Hundred and Fifteenth Night to Seven Hundred and Seventeenth Night

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

35 - A Storm

In The Red and the Black, Volume II

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Stendhal


Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…

Chapter LXVI

In The Pharaoh and the Priest

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Bolesław Prus


The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…

Lesson Six. Peacocks, Pigeons, etc..

In The Elements of Ornithology

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William Ruschenberger


The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This…

05 - John Helffrich's Journal

In The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor

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Elizabeth Louisa Gebhard


John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Bade…

The Best that Life has to Give

In The Wonder Clock

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Howard Pyle


"Four and twenty marvellous tales, one for each hour of the day," retold in a novel and entertaining manner by a master of the for…

Chapter 28: The Soup-Kitchen

In The Nether World

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George Robert Gissing and George Gissing


This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides…

The Dark House

In The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1

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George W. M. Reynolds


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-4…

12 - Satire 11

In Satires

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Juvenal and Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis


Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the …

Chapter 21: Stage Costumes

In The Art of Stage Dancing

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Ned Wayburn


Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …

When the Black Bass Stuck

In At the Foot of the Rainbow

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Gene Stratton-Porter


This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear…