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01 - Chapter 1: The Common Fever

In Fenton's Quest

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon

This story revolves around Gilbert Fenton, a very talented middle class businessman from London, who falls in love with a beautiful country …

11 - Introductory Notices, part 11: Some estimate of the character of Polo and …

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

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Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa

"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

Preface To the Book Lover

In Books Fatal to Their Authors

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Peter Hempson Ditchfield

This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…

What is Right With the World

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

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Elwood Worcester and G. K. Chesterton

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, li…

The Skares

In The Mystery of the Sea

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Bram Stoker

Mystery of the Sea is a novel with elements of adventure, supernatural and romance. Archie Hunter goes on a holiday to relax but finds he se…

Chapter III - How It Strikes a Contemporary

In The Fate of Fenella

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Frances Eleanor Trollope

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

The First Step

In Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

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Wyndham Martyn

In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…

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