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Weird Tales, Volume 2
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E. T. A. Hoffmann
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical perio…
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 13 (Supplem…
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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of myth…
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This final volume of detective stories was Doyle’s effort to put his most famous creation behind him at long last. It includes a variety of …
The Metamorphoses (Miller Version)
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Publius (Ovid) Ovidius Naso
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
Astrophel and Stella
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…
The Defense of Poesy
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …
The Master Mind of Mars (Version 3)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
The protagonist is a soldier from the Great War whose tale John Carter has brought to Earth. Having saved the life of an ancient Martian who…
Twilight Sleep
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Edith Wharton
Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…
Back to Methuselah
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George Bernard Shaw
In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…
The Radium Pool
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Edward Earl Repp
Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool…
Sonnets
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …
The Age of Reason (version 3)
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Thomas Paine
In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV
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François Rabelais
This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…
The Shadow Flies
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Rose Macaulay
The title of the original, British release of this novel was They Were Defeated, referring, among other matters, to the English Civil War, 1…
The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
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William Butler Yeats
The first two tales involve the persona's relationship with a certain Aherne, who has come into possession of a beautiful book by Joachim of…
The Maracot Deep
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Professor Maracot, accompanied by two American associates, conducts an exploration of the Atlantic Ocean floor, beginning in a diving bell o…
Of Education
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John Milton
A well educated population is the cornerstone of a strong society. On the personal level, education contributes to virtue and self-knowledge…
A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick had been apprenticed to a goldsmith before entering holy orders. This early training has been credited with influencing his m…
The "Old" Arcadia
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Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney wrote two romances which he called Arcadia. The revised version he never finished because of his untimely death on the bat…