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Ayesha Unveils

In She

Read by Jennie Hughes

H. Rider Haggard

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket w…

Part 1 of The Argonauts: How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion

In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

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Charles Kingsley

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…

Part 3. Babylonians and Assyrians

In The World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History

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Karl Ploetz

The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a different concept than the previous books edited by Eva March Tappan. …

Book 3, part 1

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 1

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Introductory

In Wisdom's Daughter

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H. Rider Haggard

A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…

Leo and the Leopard

In Ayesha, the Return of She

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H. Rider Haggard

Ayesha, the return of She, is set 16 years after the previous novel She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the wor…

Very elegant Knitted Pelisse

In Exercises in Knitting

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Cornelia Mee

Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain prac…

Chapter 51

In Middlemarch

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George Eliot

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

Chapter 8 Part 1 - MY LIFE AND TROUBLES DURING MY RESIDENCE IN UNYAS

In How I Found Livingstone

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Sir Henry M Stanley and Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United…