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From Baca to Beulah

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Jennie Smith

Sequel to The Valley of Baca. This continues the personal account of Jennie Smith, who spent more than 20 years in pain, unable to walk, and…

CHAPTER 6

In The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

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Charles Dickens

The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…

Chapter LIX: The Crusades Part I

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Cavalier and Roundhead Smokers

In The Social History of Smoking

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George L. Apperson

This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing o…

Stratford. Shakspere's Death. Patriotism Down the Ages.

In Shakspere: Personal Recollections

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John A. Joyce

A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…

Job's Comforters

In The Eustace Diamonds

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Anthony Trollope

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. Wh…

The Algebra of Love, Plus Other Things

In The Old Maids' Club

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Israel Zangwill

Mathematics vs. poetry: Brainy and beautiful 17-year-old Lillie, determined to never marry, begins an Old Maids' Club, while patient young L…

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