The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

Howard Pyle

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• This time-honored retelling of the Arthurian legends follows the adventures of Sir Gerwaint, Galahad's pursuit of the Holy Grail, as well as the last ... Lees meer

The Lady of the Lake

Walter Scott

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• A kindly heart had brave Fitz-James; Fast poured his eyes at pity's claims, And now, with mingled grief and ire, He saw the murdered maid expire. "God... Lees meer

Hadji Murad

Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

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• He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but many of Leo Tolstoy's works remain obscure today. This sho... Lees meer

Penelope's Progress

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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• We buy our tea of the Pettybaw grocer, some of our cups are cracked, the teapot is of earthenware, Miss Grieve disapproves of all social tea-fuddles a... Lees meer

The Beasts of Tarzan

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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• Why rob the poor creature of life and liberty, when it would be so easy a thing to restore both to it! He was sure from the fact that the panther move... Lees meer

Five Weeks in a Balloon

Jules Verne

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• "The chiefs are armed with muskets," said he, "and our balloon is too easy a mark for them." "Would a hole make us fall?" asked Joe. "Not immediately;... Lees meer

The Algerine Captive

Royall Tyler

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• He wrote the first American comedy to be performed onstage, and here, in this extraordinary but sadly little-remembered 1797 novel, he anticipates the... Lees meer

Democracy

Henry B Adams

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• The authorship of DEMOCRACY: AN AMERICAN NOVEL, published anonymously in 1880, was not made public until after the death of American historian HENRY B... Lees meer

Pellucidar

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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• The hunters upon whom Hooja's men had fallen had brought back the meat of a great thag. There would be a feast to commemorate the victory-a feast and ... Lees meer

Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

Mary Mapes Dodge

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• Gretel looked at her [mother] in troubled silence, wondering whether it were very wicked to care more for one parent than for the other-and sure, yes,... Lees meer

A Fool's Errand

Albion Winegar Tourgee

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• There had been rumors in the air, for some months, of a strangely mysterious organization, said to be spreading over the Southern States, which added ... Lees meer

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral

Phillis Wheatley

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• WE whose Names are under-written, do assure the World, that the POEMS specified in the following Page, were (as we verily believe) written by Phillis,... Lees meer

The Plunderers

Edwin Lefevre

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• "I led the conversation round to Wall Street and incidentally said I didn't know which was easier for a man, to be a fool or to make money in the stoc... Lees meer

Thuvia, Maid of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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• Carthoris tried to support Thuvia, but himself commenced to slide and slip toward the ever-enlarging aperture. Better to cling to the smooth stone he ... Lees meer

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, First, Second and Fifth Editions

Omar

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• Oh, come with old Khayyám, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower t... Lees meer

Penelope's English Experiences

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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• I get on charmingly with the English nobility and sufficiently well with the gentry, but the upper servants strike terror to my soul. There is somethi... Lees meer

The Courting of Dinah Shadd

Rudyard Kilpling, Rudyard Kipling

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• You must not, you cannot cross Old Court House Street without looking carefully to see that you stand no chance of being run over. This is beautiful..... Lees meer

Roast Beef Medium

Edna Ferber

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• "I think I ought to tell you," she began, "that I never was a minister's daughter, and I don't remember ever havin' been deserted by my sweetheart whe... Lees meer

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

Amelia Edwards

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• [I]t would be well if [travellers] remembered they are not dealing here with innkeepers of the ordinary continental stamp; but with persons who are fo... Lees meer

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know

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• Sam took the rebuke all the more meekly as he perceived the stiff black legs of a turkey poking-out from under my grandmother's apron while she was de... Lees meer

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving

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• Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher, came to Tarry Town in the glen of Sleepy Hollow to ply his trade in educating young minds. He was a gullible and excit... Lees meer

The Chessmen of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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• Presently Ghek pushed aside a door that opened from the stairway, and before them Tara saw the moonlight flooding the walled court where the headless ... Lees meer

The Renaissance

Walter Pater

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• [I]n the streets of Milan... moved a people as fantastic, changeful, and dreamlike. To Leonardo least of all men could there be anything poisonous in ... Lees meer

Spirits in Bondage

C.S. Lewis

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• So piteously the lonely soul of man Shudders before this universal plan, So grievous is the burden and the pain, So heavy weighs the long, material ch... Lees meer