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Chapter 20: Contains more Particulars of the Colonel and his Brethren

In The Newcomes

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William Makepeace Thackeray


The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The …

Chapter 30

In Thyrza

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George Gissing


Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she fal…

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

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L. Frank Baum


The "Little Wizard Stories of Oz" are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish…

Muir Woods

In Byways Around San Francisco Bay

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W.E. Hutchinson and W. E. Hutchinson


California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…

Section 21

In Dear Enemy

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Jean Webster


Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, J…

Bk 3: Section VII, and Song VII: Pleasure's Sting

In The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Apophtegms and Interludes

In Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche


First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

Chapter 31

In At the Back of the North Wind

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George MacDonald


Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…

Version 9

In Épigramme

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Francois Maynard and François Maynard


LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of a poem in French: Épigramme, by François Maynard. This was the weekl…

Preface and Letter A

In The Foolish Dictionary

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Gideon Wurdz and Charles Wayland Towne


"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

Chapter V, Part 13

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to su…

Chapter 19 - An Interlude

In Anne of the Island

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L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery


This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where…

Version 14

In Danse Russe

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William Carlos Williams


Williams spent his life as a doctor practicing pediatric medicine in northern New Jersey, a few miles west of New York City. During the work…