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In Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse

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David Cory

David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This is one in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss in…

Chapter 1: The Boy with the Pale Eyes

In Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends

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Marshall Saunders

Soon after his arrival to the lovely, cool summer escape of Devering Farm, Bonnie Prince Fetlar knows his new home will be a good one. Set i…

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In A House Divided Against Itself

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Margaret O. Oliphant

"A house divided against itself cannot stand." So said Abraham Lincoln in 1858. Here we have the irascible Mr. Waring, an elderly …

Outside the Door

In The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories

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E. F. Benson

These stories have been written in the hopes of giving some pleasant qualms to their reader, if by chance, anyone be occupying in their peru…

Chapter 7

In The Time Machine (Version 6)

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H. G. Wells

The Time Traveller entertains the guests at a dinner party with the tale of his journey forward in time to A.D. 802,701 using his new invent…

Chapter One

In The Princess and the Ploughman

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Florence Morse Kingsley

On the surface, Mary is the typical literary heroine: Beautiful, animated, and accomplished. She will be rich, too, when she inherits her au…

The Tale of Peter Rabbit

In The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others

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Beatrix Potter

These are some of the wonderful little stories about animals written by Beatrix Potter. The disobedient little Peter who sneaks where he sh…

Lad's Love and Lavender by Esther Lilian Duff

In Oxford Poetry 1915

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Various

The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…

The Brothers

In Poems

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Lady Jane Francesca Wilde

Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza. She was politically active as an Irish natio…