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Chapter 22

In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3)

Read by Ken Tischler

Mark Twain

The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at en…

Poem 207 - 遣悲怀 其三 (Mandarin)

In 唐诗三百首 卷四 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4

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Yuan Zhen

Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four …

Gravissimo Officii Munere (On French Associations of Worship) August 10, 1906

In Encyclical Letters of Pope St. Pius X

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Pope St Pius X

During his eleven year pontificate (1903-1914) Pope St. Pius X wrote 16 encyclicals. The subjects ranged from saints, The Immaculate Concept…

Maxims 131-140

In The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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Baltasar Gracián

300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was…

A Triumphal March

In The Kobzar of the Ukraine

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Taras Shevchenko

In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tan…

The Gossips

In How Salvator Won and Other Recitations

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an American poet known for her popular lyrics that capture positive and uplifting themes. This volume is quite divers…

Chapter 22

In Falkner

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Mary Shelley

Falkner is the last novel by Mary Shelley, best known as the author of Frankenstein and The Last Man. It tells the impossible love story bet…

Autographs

In Canada and Other Poems

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Thomas Frederick Young

From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…