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06 - Chapter 6

In A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

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James E. Seaver

Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them …

Chapter 5

In The Humbugs of the World

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P. T. Barnum

P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

10- The Tenth Surprise: The Duchess Bredenbutta's Visit to Turvyland

In The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People

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L. Frank Baum

The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny,…

00 - Preface

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon

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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…

The Narbonne Lycosa

In The Life of the Spider

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J. Henri Fabre and Jean-Henri Fabre

Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an auto…

I Remember, I Remember

In My Brilliant Career

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Miles Franklin

Sybella: "There is no plot in this story, because there has been none in my life or in any other life which has come under my notice. I…

07 - 1st Scene, Chapter 7

In No Name

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Wilkie Collins

The story begins in 1846, at Combe-Raven in West Somersetshire, the country residence of the happy Vanstone family. When Andrew Vanstone is …

The King's Ankus - Part 01

In The Second Jungle Book

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Rudyard Kipling

Kipling shows his love of the sub continent and its people and understanding of their beliefs in these tales. An older Mowgli roams the jung…

38 - Chapter XXXVIII

In The Egoist

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George Meredith

The Egoist is a tragi-comical novel by George Meredith published in 1879. The novel recounts the story of self-absorbed Sir Willoughby Patte…