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Chapter XXIII

In Mary: A Fiction

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Eliza, Mary's mother, is obsessed with novels, rarely considers anyone but herself, and favours Mary's brother. She neglects her daughter, w…

Chapter VIII

In The Fate of Fenella

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Joseph Hatton

One book, twenty-four authors ... Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continuall…

Ch. XIV: Concluding Remarks and Summary, Part 2

In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals

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Charles Darwin

The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, concerning genetically determined aspects …

05 - Book third, The Story of the Seven Years' Wandering, part 1

In The Aeneid, prose translation

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Virgil

The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas,…

Il Vitalizio (seconda parte)

In Novelle per un Anno, vol. 10: Il Vecchio Dio

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Luigi Pirandello

Novelle per un anno è una raccolta di 241 novelle scritte da Luigi Pirandello. Originariamente sono state pubblicate sul Corriere del…

Introduction

In Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

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Giovanni Verga

The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…

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