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A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain by Sol Smith

In Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2

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Sol Smith


Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes select…

THE FLIGHT INTO EGYP

In Christ Legends

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Selma Lagerlöf


These are beautiful little stories about Christmas from the Swedish storyteller Selma Lagerlöf. As she explains in the first story, th…

The Difference Between Walking by Sight, and Walking by Faith

In Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series

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John Wesley


John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …

Grimms' Fairy Tales (version 2)

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 b…

A Tale of Two Cities (version 3)

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Charles Dickens


A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 mill…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Version 2)

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Washington Irving


"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon…

The Republic (version 2)

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Plato


The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the j…

On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 2)

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Henry David Thoreau


Civil Disobedience (Resistance to Civil Government) is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau that was first published i…

Heart of Darkness (version 2)

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Joseph Conrad


Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. Before its 1903 publication, it appeared as a three-part series (1899) in Blackwood…

The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version)

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Oscar Wilde


The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 Ju…

Common Sense (version 2)

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Thomas Paine


Thomas Paine has a claim to the title The Father of the American Revolution because of Common Sense, the pro-independence monograph pamphlet…

Phaedo

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Plato


Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the …

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was fi…

The Art of War (Version 4)

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Sun Tzu 孙武


The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. The…

The Island of Doctor Moreau (Version 2)

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H. G. Wells


In this classic of H. G. Wells, Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a beautiful island in the South Seas and is drawn into the wild and cruel …

Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

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Friedrich Engels


The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels …

Notes From The Underground (version 2)

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presen…