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RUNE XVII. Wainamoinen finds the Lost Word

In The Kalevala: the Epic Poem of Finland (Crawford Translation)

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Elias Lonnrot and Elias Lönnrot

This is the epic of Finland. It is the combined folk tales of the Finnish nation starting with the birth of the world from the egg of a seab…

11 - Book sixth, The Vision of the Under World, 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,…

First Book: Poem 53

In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language

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Francis T. Palgrave

Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…

Open Letter to President Wilson by George Bernard Shaw

In First World War Centenary Prose Collection Vol. III

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George Bernard Shaw

This collection of non-fiction and fiction pieces is the third volume commemorating the First World War. The majority of the items, all chos…

Of the Principles of Human Knowledge Part 5

In A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Version 2)

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George Berkeley

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in Eng…

Prefatory note

In The Cathedral

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Joris-Karl Huysmans

It is the third of Huysmans' books to feature the character Durtal, a thinly disguised portrait of the author. He had already featured the c…

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