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The Wagtail Family

In The Children's Book of Birds

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Olive Thorne Miller


The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…

10 - Chapter X

In Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Charles Summers

In Captains of Industry

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James Parton


In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised t…

The Artists

In Poems of Schiller - 2nd Period

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Friedrich Schiller


Poems by Friedrich Schiller in his second period 1785 onwards. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Darkness

In The Prisoner of Chillon

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Lord Byron visited the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816 and was intrigued by the legend of Francis Bonnivard who was …

Chapter 16, The Search for the "Flyaway"

In The Rover Boys on the Ocean

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Edward Stratemeyer and Arthur M. Winfield


The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

04. Castles in Spain

In Kéramos : and other poems

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


This is a collection of 51 poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. which include many sonnets, plus 7 translations of poems by Virgil, Ovid, Mi…

Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Herman Melville


"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…

When I set out for Lyonnesse - TEC

In When I set out for Lyonnesse

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Thomas Hardy


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of When I set out for Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22…

16 - A Mysterious Fire

In Tom Swift and His Sky Racer

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Victor Appleton


A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but hi…

The Benediction

In The Flowers of Evil

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Charles Baudelaire and James Huneker


Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of othe…

A Dog

In The Diamond Cross Mystery

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Chester K. Steele


Colonel Ashley is confronted with a difficult case: The proprietor of a jewelry shop is found murdered, and a valuable diamond cross is stol…

Sonnets

In Poems of Conformity

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Charles Williams


Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …

35 - Volume II Chapter 13

In The Mysterious Island (version 2)

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Jules Verne


The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, dur…

Book 6, chapter 3

In The Dead Secret

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Wilkie Collins


"Everything in life has a price. May be, telling a Secret has the highest. However, not telling may be worse. What will Sarah choose? w…

The Familie

In The Temple

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George Herbert


George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…