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To Sir Walter Scott, Bart.

In Letters to Dead Authors

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Andrew Lang

With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and ac…

05 - Introductory Notices, part 5: Digression concerning the war-galleys of the…

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

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Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa

"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

11 - Five Hundred and Sixty-sixth Night

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06

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Richard Francis Burton and Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

The Stone Axe of Burkamukk - Chapter II

In The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk

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Mary Grant Bruce

Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria whic…

22 - Mr Jabberjee places himself in the hands of a solicitor—with certain reser…

In Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.

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F. Anstey

Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a different back…

Monkey on his Back

In Short Science Fiction Collection 041

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Charles V. De Vet and Charles V. de Vet

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Chapter I

In The Zeit-Geist

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Lily Dougall

"When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subjec…