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1-10 - The Borgias: Chapter 5, Part 2

In Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and The Cenci

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Alexandre Dumas [pere] and Alexandre Dumas

Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent …

Part 1, Section 1

In Sanctuary

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Edith Wharton

Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, n…

78 - The Duke Returns to Office

In The Duke's Children

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Anthony Trollope

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…

Chapter I

In The Death of the Lion

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Henry James

This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journ…

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