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The Rape of the Lock

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Alexander Pope

The Rape of the Lock is a mock-heroic narrative poem written by Alexander Pope, first published anonymously in Lintot's Miscellany in May 17…

The Way of All Flesh

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Samuel Butler

The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 an…

The Freedmen's Book

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Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Child, an American abolitionist, compiled this collection of short stories and poems by former slaves and noted activists as an …

The Autobiography of a Slander

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Edna Lyall

The Autobiography of a Slander exposes the consequences of reckless words or, even worse, intentionally disparaging words. In this moral tal…

Appendix A: The Growth of Free Industry, Part 1

In Principles of Economics, The Appendices

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Alfred Marshall

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Portrait, A

In Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…

The Alligator and the Jackal

In Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

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Various

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from oneto one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSERHYMES…