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A Dog's Tale

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Mark Twain


This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart…

De Profundis

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Oscar Wilde


This short work of Wilde's was written during his two year incarceration for "gross indecency". This work is a letter which sorts …

Hospital Sketches

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Louisa May Alcott


Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and someti…

Chapter 1

In The Time Machine

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H. G. Wells


The Time Machine is a novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895, later made into two films of the same title. This novel is generally cr…

Chapter 86 & Finale

In Middlemarch

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George Eliot


The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

39 - The Conclusion.

In The String of Pearls

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Author Unknown


The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 184…

How to Prevent War, 1938

In Selected House of Commons Speeches

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Winston Churchill and Winston S. Churchill


Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during W…

Appendix B-The Control of Corporations and the New Freedom & C-The Blaine Campa…

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 …

Preface- Quote & Inscription

In Work: A Story of Experience

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Louisa May Alcott


It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …

Chapter 11

In Through the Looking-Glass (version 3)

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Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson),…

Chapter 43

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

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Mark Twain


The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at en…

Chapter 41 - John Marches into the Night

In The Trumpet Major

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Thomas Hardy


Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…