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Stevenson on the Stage

In Problems of the Playwright

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Clayton Hamilton

A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in S…

Book I, Chapters 49 to 60

In The History of Rome, volume 1

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Titus Livius

The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) is a history of ancient Rome, written in Latin by Livy (Titus Livius) between 27 and 9 BC, covering th…

Chapter X

In Silas Marner (Version 3)

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George Eliot

Silas Marner is a hermit-style weaver who keeps to himself and is eyed with suspicion by those in the nearby town of Raveloe. Dispelled from…

Chapter 12: In which everybody is asked to Dinner

In The Newcomes

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William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Chapter XII. The Catholic South by the Rev. W. E. Collins (part 1)

In The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation

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Various

The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

Part 11, Chapter 1

In The Caxtons: A Family Picture

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The quiet country life of the Caxton family is interrupted by a visit to London. There the son, Pisistratus, is offered the position of secr…