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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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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: 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: 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: 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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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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