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Book Title: The Comedie of Errors
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Actus primus, Scena prima.
Enter the Duke of Ephesus, with the Merchant of Siracusa, Iaylor,
and
other attendants.
Marchant. Proceed Solinus to procure my fall,
And by the doome of death end woes and all
Duke. Merchant of Siracusa, plead no more.
I am not partiall to infringe our Lawes;
The enmity and discordMore... | |
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Book Title: Sketches New and Old
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
MY WATCH--[Written about 1870.]
AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE
My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining,
and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come
to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to
consider its constitution and its anatomyMore... | |
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Book Title: MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY
Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
Book Description:
N ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Dear William Dean Howells, Joseph Hopkins Twichell, Joseph T. Goodman,
and other old friends of Mark Twain:
I cannot let these volumes go to press without some grateful word to you
who have helped me during the six years and more that have gone to their
making.
First, I want to confess how I haveMore... | |
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Book Title: Essays on Paul Bourget
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
WHAT PAUL BOURGET THINKS OF US
He reports the American joke correctly. In Boston they ask, How much
does he know? in New York, How much is he worth? in Philadelphia, Who
were his parents? And when an alien observer turns his telescope upon
us--advertisedly in our own special interest--a natural apprehension
moves us toMore... | |
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Book Title: Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
Chapter 1
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
I give Pirrip as my father's family name, on the authority of his tombstone and my sister - Mrs. Joe Gargery,More... | |
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Book Title: Julius Caesar
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[Rome. A street.]
[Enter FLAVIUS, MARULLUS, and certain Commoners]
FLAVIUS
Hence! home, you idle creatures get you home:
Is this a holiday? what! know you not,
Being mechanical, you ought not walk
UponMore... | |
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Book Title: In Defence of Harriet Shelley
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
I
I have committed sins, of course; but I have not committed enough of them
to entitle me to the punishment of reduction to the bread and water of
ordinary literature during six years when I might have been living on the
fat diet spread for the righteous in Professor Dowden's Life of Shelley,
if I had been justly dealtMore... | |
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Book Title: Doctor Marigold
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father's name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at the argument this way: If a man is not allowed to know his own name in a free country,More... | |
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Book Title: A TRAMP ABROAD
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
CHAPTER I
[The Knighted Knave of Bergen]
One day it occurred to me that it had been many years
since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man
adventurous enough to undertake a journey through Europe
on foot. After much thought, I decided that I was
a person fitted to furnish to mankind this spectacle.
So IMore... | |
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