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In The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States

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Benjamin Griffith Brawley

Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literat…

Book 4 Chapter 2, part 1. Future joys and sorrows.

In The Spirits' Book

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Allan Kardec

The Spirits' Book, published in French in 1857, is considered the most important book in the Spiritist philosophy. It contains the bases for…

Oxford Union Library Audio Tour

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Olivia Cross

University of Oxford Podcasts

00 - Preface

In The Red Fairy Book

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Andrew Lang

The Red Fairy Book is the second in a series of twelve books known as Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Books.…

The Three Men of Power - Evening, Midnight and Sunrise

In Old Peter's Russian Tales

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Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public …

Chapter 7

In Through the Looking-Glass (version 3)

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Lewis Carroll

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson),…

Chapter 4- Governess

In Work: A Story of Experience

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Louisa May Alcott

It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the …