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The Hero

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W. Somerset Maugham

James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Vi…

The Explorer

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W. Somerset Maugham

An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…

The Trembling of a Leaf

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W. Somerset Maugham

A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …

Orientations

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W. Somerset Maugham

This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…

III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience

In The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

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Jeremy Taylor

Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was muc…

Chapter I The Coming of the Terror

In The Terror: A Mystery

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Arthur Machen

In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a cul…

The Spa Again part 1

In Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

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Guy de Maupassant

Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…

Andrea del Sarto, part 1

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

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Giorgio Vasari

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

The Shadow in the Moonlight, part I

In Uncanny Tales

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Mary Louisa Molesworth

Mrs. Molesworth was during her time best known for her many children's books. It is not so well known that she also wrote some uncanny tales…