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In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08

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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. The are an amalgam of mythol…

Drury Lane Part 3

In Haunted London

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Walter Thornbury and George Walter Thornbury


London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of g…

Chapter II, Part 3

In The Pretty Sister Of José

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


Pepita would rather become a witch than a wife. She's seen too many women, including her mother, wither away at their husband's hands. Popul…

XXVII

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7)

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Mark Twain


A slightly more complex sequel to Mark Twain's original book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book really shows the true side of racism i…

Derues Section 1

In Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Derues, La Constantin

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Alexandre Dumas


Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crim…

Ch.4 Is Woman a Worker?

In The Chimney Corner

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Harriet Beecher Stowe


Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly…

The Bargain of Rupert Orange

In A Book of Bargains

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Vincent O'Sullivan


This is a volume of short horror stories by American-born short story writer, poet and critic Vincent O'Sullivan. Sometimes considered the l…

Chapter 6 part 1

In The Critique of Dogmatic Theology

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Leo Tolstoy


More systematic, but no less sincere than A Confession (which originally served as the introduction to this work), The Critique of Dogmatic …

The Three Gifts

In Folk-lore and Legends: Russian and Polish

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Charles John Tibbits


In this volume I present selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors …

The Yorkshire Boggart

In Folk-lore and legends: English

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Charles John Tibbits


The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is be…

Part II - Chapter IX

In My Lady's Money

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Wilkie Collins


Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…