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The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of the Ava Root

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Alice A. Ball


The Chemical Constituents of Piper Methysticum or The Chemical Constituents of the Active Principle of The Ava Root is the text of a Master’…

The Kingdom of the Heavens

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Charles Nordmann


Thought is the most swift and subtle of vehicles. Let us therefore use that craft to reach a trysting-place in the skies. The light which r…

Chapter 4: Observations On the State Of Degradation To Which Woman Is Reduced B…

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

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In Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy


Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were origina…

HOW THE HABITANT LIVED

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 05 - Seigneurs of Old Canada: A Chronicle of New Wo…

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William Bennett Munro


It was during one of her proud and prosperous eras that France began her task of creating an empire beyond the Atlantic. At no time, indeed,…

Chapter 03

In Middlemarch

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George Eliot


The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

Chapter VIII

In The Clue of the Twisted Candle

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Edgar Wallace


Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scot…

The Gathering of the Missionaries

In Greenmantle

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John Buchan


Greenmantle is the second of five Richard Hannay novels by John Buchan, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one…

Chapter 22

In The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

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Henry James


The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Awakening, An

In Winesburg, Ohio

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Sherwood Anderson


Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a …

Preface

In The Tree-Dwellers

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Katherine Elizabeth Dopp and Katharine Elizabeth Dopp


Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first e…

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