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Book Title: The Cricket on the Hearth
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
CHAPTER I - Chrip the First
THE kettle began it! Don't tell me what Mrs. Peerybingle said. I know better. Mrs. Peerybingle may leave it on record to the end of time that she couldn't say which of them began it; but, I say the kettle did. I ought to know, I hope! The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-facedMore... | |
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Book Title: Journal Of The Plague Year
Author: Daniel Defoe
Book Description:
Being observations or memorials of the most remarkable occurrences, as well public as private, which happened in London during the last great visitation in 1665. Written by a Citizen who continued all the while in London. Never made public before
It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of myMore... | |
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Book Title: The Taming of the Shrew
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
[Scene 1]
[Enter Hostess and SLY]
SLY
I'll pheeze you, in faith.
Hostess
A pair of stocks, you rogue!
SLY
Ye are a baggage: the Slys are no rogues; look in
the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror.
Therefore paucas pallabris; let the world slide:More... | |
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Book Title: Mark Twain's Speeches
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
INTRODUCTION
These speeches will address themselves to the minds and hearts of those
who read them, but not with the effect they had with those who heard
them; Clemens himself would have said, not with half the effect. I have
noted elsewhere how he always held that the actor doubled the value of
the author's words; and heMore... | |
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Book Title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.
Enter Demetrius and Philo.
Philo. Nay, but this dotage of our Generals
Ore-flowes the measure: those his goodly eyes
That o're the Files and Musters of the Warre,
Haue glow'd like plated Mars:
Now bend, now turne
The Office and Deuotion of their view
Vpon a Tawny Front. His CaptainesMore... | |
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Book Title: Complete Letters of Mark Twain
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
FOREWORD
Nowhere is the human being more truly revealed than in his letters.
Notin literary letters--prepared with care, and the thought of possible
publication--but in those letters wrought out of the press of
circumstances, and with no idea of print in mind. A collection of such
documents, written by one whose life hasMore... | |
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Book Title: The William Shakespeare Collection
Author: William Shakespeare
Book Description:
Since William Shakespeare was born so long ago, not many facts remain to build a complete biography on. The few facts that there are used to try and fill in the gaps of Shakespeare's life. For example, records show that William Shakespeare was baptized April 26th, 1564 in Stratford-Upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. It was theMore... | |
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Book Title: Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
THE LOVES OF ALONZO FITZ CLARENCE AND ROSANNAH ETHELTON
It was well along in the forenoon of a bitter winter's day. The town of
Eastport, in the state of Maine, lay buried under a deep snow that was
newly fallen. The customary bustle in the streets was wanting. One
could look long distances down them and see nothing butMore... | |
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Book Title: On the Decay of the Art of Lying
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
Observe, I do not mean to suggest that the _custom_ of lying has
suffered any decay or interruption--no, for the Lie, as a Virtue, A Principle,
is eternal; the Lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the
fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend, is immortal, and
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