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Railways and Imperial Consolidation

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 26 - The Tribune of Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Jos…

Read by Claire M


William Lawson Grant


Joseph Howe (1804-1873) was one of Nova Scotia's greatest and best-loved politicians. He was instrumental in helping Nova Scotia become the …

The "Argonauts"

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fie…

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Agnes C. Laut


Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first di…

Book Second, Part 2, Chapters 49 to 52. Concerning a further part of the provin…

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

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Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa


"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

Brother Griffith's Story of Mad Monkton - Chapter IV

In The Queen of Hearts

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Wilkie Collins


The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward…

Encke the Astronomer

In Light Science for Leisure Hours

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Richard A. Proctor


In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with a…

Part I - Chapter V

In My Lady's Money

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Wilkie Collins


Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…

Chapter I

In The wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl, the Man who lost his Shadow

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Adelbert von Chamisso


Peter Schlemihl is an ordinary man until one day he bargains with the devil: He trades his shadow for a bottomless purse. While this sounds …

Pansy-boy

In The Wonder Garden

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Frances Jenkins Olcott


"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transf…

The Student and his Certificate

In Elsie Venner

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interr…

Given up by the Waters

In Alice; or The Wages of Sin

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Frederic Werden Pangborn


This book is given to the reader, as the exposition of a terrible possibility in actual life. Should there be found, in its pages, any warm…

Facing the Secretary of the Navy

In The Submarine Boys for the Flag

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Victor G. Durham


It certainly has been an odd day for our Submarine Boys! First Jack Benson is asked by a German Professor to speak with him a hotel, then …

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