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Chapter 7: Seclusion from the literary world--Notice from the Prince Regent--Co…

In Memoir of Jane Austen

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James Edward Austen-Leigh

"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the …

Miltiades the Hero of Marathon

In Famous Men of Greece

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John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland and John Henry Haaren

Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…

Cleopatra a Queen

In Cleopatra

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Jacob Abbott

A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.

08-1 - Banda Oriental and Patagonia

In The Voyage of the Beagle

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Charles Darwin

The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal…

I Am A New Boy in More Senses Than One

In David Copperfield

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Charles Dickens

"David Copperfield" or "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blun…

Chapter XIV

In Edison's Conquest of Mars

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Garrett P. Serviss

Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the nineteenth century. Although sc…

Momotaro, or Little Peachling

In Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

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Various

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from oneto one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSERHYMES…

Chevalier Bayard

In Famous Men of Modern Times

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John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland and John Henry Haaren

Famous Men of Modern Times is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interestin…