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Richelieu: A Tale of France

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George Payne Rainsford James


Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…

Lord Montagu's Page

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George Payne Rainsford James


A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…

The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times

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George Payne Rainsford James


The lot of a younger son was less assured than his older brother in days gone by. It was worse for his descendant, especially if he wanted t…

Arrah Neil; or, Times of Old

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George Payne Rainsford James


During his lifetime, James published an estimated 100 novels. Arrah Neil was published some 40 years after his death. In this historical nov…

Chapter I: The Story of Deborah

In The Kallikak Family

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Henry H. Goddard


The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, written by famous American psychologist and eugenicist Henry H. Goddard, …

The Discovery

In Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

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Guy de Maupassant


Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…

Part 1, Chapter 1: NORTHENERS IN SUNLIGHT

In The Emancipated

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George Gissing


In Italy, everything is possible. Or, at least, much more than in the oppressive social order of the Victorian era. A group of British expat…

Alfonso Lombardi of Ferrara, Michelagnolo da Siena, Girolamo Santa Croce of Nap…

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

My Wedding

In The Vicar's Daughter

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George MacDonald


This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father …

I Seek and Find a Friend

In "Boy" The Wandering Dog

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Marshall Saunders


Another 'dog's-eye view' book for children by this early activist for the American Humane Society. In this tale, we follow the travels and …

A Startling Shriek

In The Ocean Waifs

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Thomas Mayne Reid


"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …

Night 777-778

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 08

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

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