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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: IS SHAKESPEARE DEAD? Author: Mark Twain Book Description: CHAPTER I
Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished
manuscript which constitute this formidable Autobiography and Diary
of mine, certain chapters will in some distant future be found
which deal with "Claimants"--claimants historically notorious:
Satan, Claimant; the Golden Calf, Claimant; the VeiledMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: The Yellow Fairy Book Author: Andrew Lang Book Description: PREFACE
THE Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Red, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say. Now, there is oneMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: A Midsummer-Night's Dream Author: William Shakespeare Book Description: Act 1
Scene 1
[Athens. The palace of THESEUS.]
[Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants]
THESEUS
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingersMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Author: Daniel Defoe Book Description: THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE
The world is so taken up of late with novels and romances, that it will be hard for a private history to be taken for genuine, where the names and other circumstances of the person are concealed, and on this account we must be content to leave the reader to pass his own opinion upon the ensuing sheet, andMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: The Underground City Author: Verne Jules Book Description: INTRODUCTION
AMONG so many effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest. Yet, certainly, even amid Verne's remarkable works, his "Off on a Comet" must be given high rank. Perhaps this story will be remembered when even "Round the World in Eighty Days" and "Michael Strogoff" haveMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: The Tempest Author: William Shakespeare Book Description: Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise]
of thunder and lightning heard.
[Enter a Master and a Boatswain]
Master
Boatswain!
Boatswain
Here, master: what cheer?
Master
Good, speak toMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Adventure, Children, Classic Book Title: TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE Author: Mark Twain Book Description: CHAPTER I.
AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK
[Footnote: Strange as the incidents of this story are,
they are not inventions, but facts -- even to the
public confession of the accused. I take them from an
old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors,
and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some
details, butMore... | |
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