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Selected excerpts by Cervantes, part II

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 08

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

The Detective

In The Technique of the Mystery Story

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Carolyn Wells


For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwe…

Chapter I, The Discovery of America, Part 1

In Poems of American History, The Colonial Era

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A History through Poetry of the exploration and settling of North American by Europeans. Beginning with Leif Erikson, and continuing throug…

The Lord of Space by Victor Rousseau, part 1

In Astounding Stories 08, August 1930

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Arthur J. Burks


Issue eight of this seminal science-fiction magazineCONTENTSMurder Madness by Murray Leinster - the conclusion of this novelEarth the Maurad…

Phalanxes of Atlans by F. V. W. Mason, "What Has Gone Before" and Chapter 7

In Astounding Stories 15, March 1931

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Ray Cummings


This issue includes "When the Mountain Came to Miramar" by Charles W. Diffin, "Beyond the Vanishing Point" by Ray Cummin…

The Kildare Pooka - How Thomas Connolly met the Banshee

In Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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William Butler Yeats


This is a collection of Fairy and Folk tales. The poet William Butler Yeats collected them from around the Western part of Ireland and trans…

THE WEE BANNOCK

In More English Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs


"This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have be…