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Felicitous Phrases: eagerness, heartiness, and vehemence - fustian, padding, an…

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Moja Piosnka

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 003

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Cyprian Norwid and Cyprian Kamil Norwid


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. …

Chapter XII, Part 4

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


Much of this chapter is taken up with the affairs of Ireland during the reign of James II. The Protestants and Catholics are having their us…

The Picture in House

In The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft


H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incom…

The History of the Third Calender, part a

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

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Anonymous, translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott and Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then …

Pan

In Sklepy cynamonowe

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Bruno Schulz


Sklepy cynamonowe to pierwszy, debiutancki cykl opowiadań Brunona Schulza, które pierwotnie były postscriptami w listach do Debory Vo…

Poor Miss Finch

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Wilkie Collins


“Poor Miss Finch.” That is what everyone calls the courageous protagonist of this book. In other words, “poor thing, she’s blind, isn’t it a…

Amor de Perdição

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Camilo Castelo Branco


Amor de Perdição é uma das obras mais marcantes de Camilo, um dos mais importantes e proliferos romancistas portugueses…

Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


The story of three "middle aged ladies". Follow along as they have all sorts of adventures. - Summary by Sandra More Tish stories…

The First Violin

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Jessie Fothergill


May Wedderburn is a quiet provincial girl, living in small and seemingly boring Skernford. Underneath the dull exterior, there is mystery, s…

The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster la…

Nutcracker and Mouse King

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E. T. A. Hoffmann


The original story of the Nutcracker, weird and wonderful by one of the masters of horror and weirdness. Summary by Sandra Cullum.

John Thorndyke's Cases

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R. Austin Freeman


Detective John Thorndyke never disappoints when solving crime in this collection of Freeman's works. - Summary by A. K. Morton