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Mark Twain - Awful German Language (version 2)
This long essay is a work of mock philology, one of several appendices to Twain’s travel novel, A Tramp Abroad. In it, Twain explains, complains about, and shows how one might improve upon various aspects of the...
1 hour 2 minutes
*Non-fiction
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W. Stewart Wallace - Chronicles of Canada Volume 13 - The United Empire Loyalists: A Chronicle of the Great Migration
Volume 13 of The Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume sheds light on the often misunderstood Americans who chose to remain loyal to the Crown of England during and after the American Revolution. While the vast...
3 hours 19 minutes
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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 17)
This is volume 4 chapter 17 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to...
3 hours 24 minutes
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Alice Turner Curtis - Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter
Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the civil war. She loves her new home, and her dear friends. However, political tensions are rising,...
3 hours 52 minutes
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