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In The Red Badge of Courage

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Stephen Crane

This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on…

Karmu and Dharmu

In Folklore of the Santal Parganas, Vol. 1

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Cecil Henry Bompas and Unknowntranslated Bycecil Henry Bompas

This is an intriguing collection of folklore from the Santal Parganas, a district in India located about 150 miles from Calcutta. As its pre…

The Jackal and the Iguana

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

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William Patten

The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

bk2_05 - Book the Second - Chapter 05 MERCURY PROMPTING

In Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens

Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …

John Wasson

In Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…