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The Tale of Three Lions

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H. Rider Haggard

Taking place in the heart of Africa, “The Tale of Three Lions” is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quaterma…

A Book of Discovery

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M. B. Synge

Telling the history of geographical discoveries, "Book of Discovery" is a record of splendid endurance, of hardships bravely borne…

A Short History of the World

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H. G. Wells

A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…

Heroes of the Middle Ages

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Eva March Tappan

"The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, …

Lāčplēsis

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Andrejs Pumpurs

Lāčplēsis is an epic poem by Andrejs Pumpurs, a Latvian poet, who wrote it between 1872-1887 based on local legends. Lāčplēsis is regarded a…

North-Pole Voyages

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Zachariah Atwell Mudge

For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…

Part 5 Ch. 9 The Election

In The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

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Hugh Lofting

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in fa…

Second Period: First Narrative V

In The Moonstone

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Wilkie Collins

The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.The b…

Theseus and Daedalus--Castor and Pollux--Festivals and Games

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

THE RABBIT CHASE

In Raggedy Andy Stories

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John B. Gruelle and Johnny Gruelle

Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young ch…