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Book Title: FENIMORE COOPER'S LITERARY OFFENCES
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer stand at the head of Cooper's
novels as artistic creations. There are others of his works
which contain parts as perfect as are to be found in these, and
scenes even more thrilling. Not one can be compared with
either of them as a finished whole.
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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Scattered here and there through the stacks of unpublished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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Book Title: David Copperfield
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION
I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between pleasure and regret - pleasureMore... | |
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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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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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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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Book Title: Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend
Book Description:
The Wolf and the Lamb
WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him:
"Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was notMore... | |
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