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06 - Chapter 6: Sentence of Exile

In Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …

03 - A COSMOPOLITE IN A CAFÉ

In The Four Million (Version 2)

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O. Henry

The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry origi…

26 - Section 26

In The Purple Cloud

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Matthew Phipps Shiel and M. P. Shiel

The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to t…

16 - The Jewel in the Matrix

In The Heart's Kingdom

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Maria Thompson Daviess

Nickols Powers is in love with the beautiful Charlotte and desperate to marry her. Charlotte however, is independent and reluctant to accept…

chapter 59

In The Wanderer

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Frances Burney

This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why di…

05 - Miss Tallowax is Shown the House

In Is He Popenjoy ?

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Anthony Trollope

Trollope returns in Is He Popenjoy to two of his favorite subjects: property and inheritance. As in "Doctor Thorne," the issues ar…

MY PRINCESS

In The Memoirs of a White Elephant

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Judith Gautier

"We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. Ther…