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Chapter III: Part 1

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

The Hazel-nut Child

In The Yellow Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang

"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Althou…

Bk 2, Purgatory: Canto XXVIII - Canto XXXIII

In The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Christabel

In Long Poems Collection 002

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 002: a collection of 7 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

In The Scarlet Letter

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

The story begins in seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, then a Puritan settlement. A young woman, Hester Prynne, is led from the town …

What Little Jack Horner Did

In Mother Goose in Prose

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L. Frank Baum

Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

Chapter V, Part 8

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to su…

Chapter XV & XVI

In The Golden Bough (Complete)

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Sir James Frazer and James Frazer

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropol…

The Water-Lily. The Gold Spinners

In The Blue Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…

VIIA. Formation of the Constitution: Promise and the Difficulties/Constitutiona…

In History of the United States, Vol. III

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Charles and Mary Beard and Charles Austin Beard

Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and inte…