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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…

01 - The Strange Customer at Sweeney Todd's

In The String of Pearls

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Author Unknown

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 184…

1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense

In The 9/11 Commission Report

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9/11 Commission

9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official…

Maiden Speech, 1901

In Selected House of Commons Speeches

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Winston Churchill and Winston S. Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

10 - Under the Plane-Tree

In Romola

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George Eliot

George Eliot's own favorite among her novels, this novel tells the story of Romola, the intelligent daughter of a blind scholar, who is fall…

Chapter 6

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 9, The Sixth 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…