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The Book of Common Prayer, 1662: selections

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The Parliament of England and The Parliament Of England


The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) has for nearly 500 years provided the basis for Anglican and allied worship, not only in its English home bu…

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Version 2)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins


Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was one of the most innovative of English Victorian poets, best known now for his vivid and original image…

Miss Bracegirdle and Others

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Stacy Aumonier


A 1923 collection of tales by the British author Stacy Aumonier (1877–1928), described by John Galsworthy as "one of the best short-sto…

Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2)

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Alfred Tennyson and Alfred, Lord Tennyson


Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secre…

The Golden Windmill and Other Stories

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Stacy Aumonier


In this 1921 collection of short stories, many dealing with the experiences of ordinary people during the Great War, the master English stor…

Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)

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Lewis Carroll


An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …

A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 4)

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Robert Louis Stevenson


Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century…

The Farmer's Bride (Version 2)

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Charlotte Mew


A powerful collection of short poems published in 1921 by the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928). Lauded during her lifetime by luminari…

Bible (KJV) 20: Proverbs

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King James Version


The book of Proverbs is referred to as wisdom literature along with several others: the book of Job, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, and …

Three Hundred Aesop's Fables

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Aesop


Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica are a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Gree…

The Man with Two Left Feet, and Other Stories

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P. G. Wodehouse


The Man With Two Left Feet, and Other Stories is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on …

Bible (KJV) NT 01: Matthew

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King James Version


The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testa…

The Iliad of Homer, Rendered into English Blank Verse

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Homer


"It must equally be considered a splendid performance; and for the present we have no hesitation in saying that it is by far the best r…

Typee

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Herman Melville


Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a …

The Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (version 2)

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Charles Darwin


This is the 6th and last edition of "On The Origin of Species" with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive…

Bible (KJV), Complete

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King James Version


The 1769 Oxford Edition. The King James Bible is one of the most important books in the English speaking world, so influential that its lang…

United States Historical Documents

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Various


The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, thou…

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson

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Mark Twain


In one of his later novels, the master storyteller spins a tale of two children switched at infancy. A slave takes on the identity of master…

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Edmund Burke


Reflections on the Revolution in France is a 1790 book by Edmund Burke, one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant)…

The Wizard

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H. Rider Haggard


Described by the author, best known for his King Solomon's Mines, as "a tale of victorious faith," this story begins on a Sunday a…

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