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003 - 感遇其三 (Thoughts III) (Mandarin) by Zhang Jiuling 張九齡

In 唐诗三百首 卷一 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1

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Zhang Jiuling and Jiuling Zhang 張九齡

The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architectur…

Chapter III, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

Chapter 11

In Jane Eyre

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Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished wit…

CONCERNING A COURT INTRIGUE

In The Three Musketeers

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Alexandre Dumas

The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Requirements of Speech

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

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Joseph Devlin

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

What Men Live By

In What Men Live By and Other Tales

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Leo Tolstoy

Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…

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In The Metamorphosis

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Franz Kafka (trans. Ian Johnston) and Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arg…

SIXTY-FIVE WAYS TO COOK MACKEREL

In How to Cook Fish

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Olive Green and Myrtle Reed

Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

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