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The Benefit of the Doubt
In The Night-Born
Ten short stories on various themes and subjects, all more or less bizarre.The Night-Born is about a woman who draws inspiration to change h…
Misunderstood
In Balloons
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristo…
Preface
In Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2)
The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest o…
Preface
In Poems Every Child Should Know
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lo…
A Painful Case
In Dubliners (Version 2)
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle cl…
Decline of Drama
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
Section 2
In The Flood
A well-to-do French farm family is destroyed by a flood. The story, thrilling to the very end, is told from the point of view of the family…
A Matter of Doctrine
In The Heart of Happy Hollow
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …
Section III
In The Jade Flute
A collection of mindful ancient Chinese poetry by Li Po, Wan Ts’u, Mei Chang and other masters set in English prose by anonymous translators…
Preface
In The Book of Dreams and Ghosts
The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang is a book mainly focused on the stories of ghosts and other mystical phenomenon. With frequent …
Summary
In Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 2, August 1898
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…
June
In Birds, Vol. I, No 6, June 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Challenge to a Modernist
In The Pale Woman
Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and a…
The Critic
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07
The Wit and Humor of America is a delightful anthology that captures the essence of American humor through a diverse collection of short sto…
Preface
In A Christmas Hamper: Full of Pictures and Tales
This book contains stories, tales, and pictures from Christmas for little folks! - Summary by Shriya (spatel2)
Respectability
In Winesburg, Ohio
Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …
Two Ways of Putting It
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 01, Nov. 4, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
IX: Poe, Hogg, Shakespeare, Mickle, Shelley, Barnefield, Nashe, Macaulay, Scott
In The Blue Poetry Book
This anthology poetry, gathered by Andrew Lang and originally published in 1891, is read by four voices, Larry Wilson, Ciufi Galeazzi, Lynet…
03 - Chapter III
In The Aspern Papers
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…
London
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…