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Versio Latina (Homeri Odyssea) Liber VI

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Homer

The Versio Latina, or Latin translation of the works of Homer, has existed since the 14th century, but was first printed, under the name of …

Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1

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Walter Pater

Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboratio…

2-01 Part Second - Chapter 1

In Jude the Obscure

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Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fa…

Maurice and Oldenbarneveldt

In History of Holland

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George Edmundson

The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province…

Chapter 31

In Middlemarch

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George Eliot

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

X - Of Power, Worth, Dignity, Honour and Worthiness

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes

Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Chapter 24

In The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

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Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …