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Chapter 04 - An Author and His Wife

In New Grub Street

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George Gissing

"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, whic…

22 - Chapter XXII - Mr. Western Yields.

In Kept in the Dark

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Anthony Trollope

Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, a…

Bk 07: Juno Served by a Fury, pt 1

In The Aeneid

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Publius Vergilius Maro and Virgil

The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

03 - Chapter 03, Murano, part 1

In The Stones of Venice, Volume 2

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John Ruskin

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …

bk4_05 - The Legende of Cambel and Telamond - Canto 05

In The Faerie Queene Book 4

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Edmund Spenser

"The Fourth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Cambel and Telamond or of Friendship."The Faerie Queene was never …

39 - Chapter IX, part one

In L'Assommoir

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Émile Zola

Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, …

34 - Section 34

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III

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James Boswell

This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this …

bk3_01 - The Legende of Britomartis - Canto 01

In The Faerie Queene Book 3

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Edmund Spenser

"The Third Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Britomartis or of Chastitie."The Faerie Queene was never completed,…