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20 - The Wedding Dress

In Mary Marston

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George MacDonald


Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…

Chapter 6

In A Dark Night's Work

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Love, murder and class commentary in Mrs Gaskell's usual brilliant style! This novel was originally serialised and published by Charles Dick…

07 - Of Bashfulness

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

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Plutarch and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

Chapter 21, part 01

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

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David Hume


David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

To Charles Dickens

In Letters to Dead Authors

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Andrew Lang


With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

The Golden Rule, Part I

In Stories in Black and White

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Margaret O. Oliphant


This is a collection of short mystery stories, written in very different styles by eight different authors. - Summary by Carolin

The Plays - Rosmersholm

In The Quintessence of Ibsenism (Version 2)

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George Bernard Shaw


This is an essay providing an extended analysis of the works of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen and of Ibsen's critical reception in Engla…

Glooskap: Story 8

In The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Pass…

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Charles Godfrey Leland


This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; t…

Are Editors People?

In Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms

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Heywood Broun


This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, suc…

The Last Lesson by Alphonse Daudet

In International Short Stories Volume 3: French Stories

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Francis J. Reynolds and Alphonse Daudet


The third book of a three volume anthology of international short stories, we now turn to French stories. Authors include Honoré de B…

Hat Tricks

In Modern Magic: A Practical Treatise on the Art of Conjuring

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Professor Louis Hoffman


This "how-to" book covers everything for the 1800's illusionist, from stage presence & dress, program and stage arrangement, t…

A Memory

In The Great Small Cat and Others

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May E. Southworth


A collection of seven tales about cats. Caution: Some of these tales have very sad endings. (Summary by MaryAnn)

Chapter 27 - Sixtieth anniversary of the class of 1832—The Woman's Bible

In Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…

Volume II: Reason in Society. Chapter 4: The Aristocratic Ideal, part 2

In The Life of Reason volume 2

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George Santayana


The Life of Reason, subtitled "the Phases of Human Progress", is a book published in five volumes from 1905 to 1906, by Spanish-bo…

15 THE PICTURE

In Dark Hollow

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Anna Katharine Green


The small town of Shelby is shaken by a brutal murder. A man by the name of Etheridge was found beaten to death. A local inn-keeper, is conv…

Fifty-two Weeks for Florette

In O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921

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Elizabeth Alexander Heermann


In 1918 the Society of Arts and Sciences established the O. Henry Memorial Awards to reward the very best short stories published during the…