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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

Fortitude

Hugh Walpole

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• "Do you really want me, Peter?" He didn't speak but his whole body turned towards her, answering her question. "Because I am yours entirely. I became ... Lees meer