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Legends of Norseland

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Mara L. Pratt


Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…

A Party in a Parlour

In For Love and Life Vol. 1

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Margaret O. Oliphant


“The device on his shield was a young oak tree pulled up by the roots, with the Spanish word Desdichado, signifying Disinherited.” The novel…

Notes: On Preventive Checks to Population

In Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes

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Edward Carpenter


"The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among …

The Punishment of Loki - Norse

In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 11

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Mabel H. Cummings


This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

Chapter 2

In Consuelo

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George Sand


This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…

Chapter 27

In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

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Robert Smith Surtees


Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…

Chapter XVIII The "Coke" Fiend

In The Dream Doctor

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Arthur B. Reeve


The Dream Doctor is a compilation of detective stories featuring Professor Craig Kennedy, a Sherlock-like character who uses his scientific …

In Undying Loneliness

In Wisdom's Daughter

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H. Rider Haggard


A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…

From the Flood to Abraham

In The Bible Period by Period

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Josiah Blake Tidwell


Josiah Tidwell was a Christian educator with a long association with Baylor University in Waco, Texas. This book gives a synopsis of each pe…

Military Pyrotechny

In Pyrotechnics: The History and Art of Firework Making

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Alan St. Hill Brock


Captain St. Hill Brock presents here, in Part I, a brief history of pyrotechnics from origins in the East through the present. Part II delv…

Preface & JOSEPH CAST INTO THE PIT,

In Joseph and his Brethren

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W. K. Tweedie


"The story of Joseph is at once so simple that childhood is arrested and rivetted by it, and so profound that sages may deepen their wi…

Novice

In The American Bee Journal, Vol. VI. No. 5, Nov 1870

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Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…

The Ladies

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086

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Mark Twain


"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…

The Death of Rustem

In The Epic of Kings: Stories Retold from Firdusi

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Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi


The Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) is a monumental poem composed around 1000 C.E. by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. It narrates the exploits of m…

CHAPTER IV. The Naiad-Part One

In The Naiad

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George Sand


The Naiad: A Ghost Story is a supernatural novella by George Sand, the pseudonym of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant, née Dupin. - Sum…