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Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes

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Daṇḍin

This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…

Chapter 10, Tom, Sam, and Farmer Fox

In The Rover Boys on the Ocean

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Edward Stratemeyer and Arthur M. Winfield

The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

James Watt

In Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

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Sarah Knowles Bolton

These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…

In Defense of an Offering

In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 07

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Sewell Ford (1868 - 1946) and Sewell Ford

The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the seventh volume, 43 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 autho…

Introduction to Book 1

In The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

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Patanjali

Yoga sutras by Patanjali is a seminal work in yoga, this book is more about control of mind and the true goal of yoga. The sutras are extre…

12 - THE RENUNCIATION

In The Hungry Stones And Other Stories

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Rabindranath Tagore

This is a collection of short stories written by the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The stories contained in this volume were translate…

Jack and His Master

In Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs, editor and Joseph Jacobs

A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book - Celtic Fairy Tales, but this recordin…

02 - Chapter 2

In The Double: A Petersburg Poem

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at …

34 - Six Hundred and Twenty-ninth Night to Six Hundred and Thirty-first 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…

00 - Translators' Preface.

In The World as Will and Idea Volume 1

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Arthur Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words…