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The Four Million

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O. Henry

Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…

The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million

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O. Henry

Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He…

02a - The Haunted-House

In Three Ghost Stories

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Charles Dickens

As a gifted writer with a strong interest in supernatural phenomena, Charles Dickens produced a string of ghost stories with enduring charm.…

08 - How Bartholemy rested Himself

In Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

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Frank R. Stockton

Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rollicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of …

Chapter 18

In Don Quixote - Vol. 1

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (transl. John Ormsby) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in …

III.I: In Secret

In A Tale of Two Cities

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Charles Dickens

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, …

The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers

In Famous Modern Ghost Stories

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Dorothy Scarborough, compiler, Robert W. Chambers and Variousanddorothy Scarborough

An entertaining selection of "modern" ghost stories selected "to include specimens of a few of the distinctive types of moder…

Little John Turns Barefoot Friar

In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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Howard Pyle

Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…

A Strange Sail

In The Country of the Pointed Firs

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Sarah Orne Jewett

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…