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The Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole


The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre whic…

Uncle Silas

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest…

THE SECRET OF MR. BLAKE'S STUDIO

In A Strange Disappearance

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Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective f…

An Interegnum Paragraph --- Colors-A Contrast

In Specimen Days

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Walt Whitman


Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

Part I, Chapter VII - Section 2

In Dead Souls

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Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, translated by D. J. Hogarth and Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol


Dead Souls (Russian: Мёртвые души) by Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer, was first published in 1842, and is one of the most prominent works of …

The Zodiacal Light Mystery

In Curiosities of the Sky

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Garrett Serviss and Garrett P. Serviss


Astronomy is known as the oldest of the sciences, and it will be the longest-lived because it will always have arcana that have not been pen…

Chapters 25-26

In Book of the Damned

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Charles Fort and Charles Hoy Fort


The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

Chapter 13

In Planet of the Damned

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Harry Harrison


Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical …

03 - Destroying Our Federal System

In What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin


In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…

iRiver iHP-140

In Recordings on MP3 players and other portable devices 'Written in March' (Microp…

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William Wordsworth


This is a project which will allow us to compare recording quality of different mp3 players and portable recording devices. Each reader has …

Ch 11-The Natural Resources of the Nation, pt 1

In Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt


In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken …