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Book Title: The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Book Description:
PREFACE.
This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was
not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author's;
it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle
hour. It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is
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Book Title: The Underground City
Author: Jules Verne
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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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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Book Title: Notes from the Underground
Author: FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
Book Description:
PART I
Underground* *The author of the diary and the diary itself are, of course, imaginary. Nevertheless it is clear that such persons as the writer of these notes not only may, but positively must, exist in our society, when we consider the circumstances in the midst of which our society is formed. I have tried to expose to theMore... | |
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Book Title: Red Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang
Book Description:
PREFACE
IN a second gleaning of the fields of Fairy Land we cannot expect to find a second Perrault. But there are good stories enough left, and it is hoped that some in the Red Fairy Book may have the attraction of being less familiar than many of the old friends. The tales have been translated, or, in the case of thoseMore... | |
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Book Title: From London to Land's End
Author: Daniel Defoe
Book Description:
Sir,
I find so much left to speak of, and so many things to say in every part of England, that my journey cannot be barren of intelligence which way soever I turn; no, though I were to oblige myself to say nothing of anything that had been spoken of before.
I intended once to have gone due west this journey; but then IMore... | |
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Book Title: Measvre, For Measure
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Actus primus, Scena prima.
Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords.
Duke. Escalus
Esc. My Lord
Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vnfold,
Would seeme in me t' affect speech & discourse,
Since I am put to know, that your owne Science
Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice
My strength can giue you: Then no moreMore... | |
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