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Chapter 12: In which everybody is asked to Dinner

In The Newcomes

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William Makepeace Thackeray

The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Mary Magdalene. A tradition of Nain

In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 16

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Lawrence Labree and Seba Smith

"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…

The Rambler No, 148, The Cruelty of Parental Tyranny

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082

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Samuel Johnson

"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…

Chapter XII. The Catholic South by the Rev. W. E. Collins (part 1)

In The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation

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Various

The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…

Chapter 16

In A Book About Myself

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Theodore Dreiser

A book written by Theodore Dreiser detailing a history of his life and how he became a writer. - Summary by Michele Eaton

Part 16, Chapter 3

In The Caxtons: A Family Picture

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The quiet country life of the Caxton family is interrupted by a visit to London. There the son, Pisistratus, is offered the position of secr…

CHAPTER II

In Syria: the Desert and the Sown

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…