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Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Humorous Fiction

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Max Beerbohm - Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men

Sir Henry Maximilian «Max» Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Henry Kendall - God Help Our Men at Sea

Kendall was born in a settler's hut by Yackungarrah Creek near Ulladulla, New South Wales, Australia. He was registered as Thomas Henry Kendall, but never appears to have used his first name. His three volumes of...

Algy Pug and 10 more 31 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Victor Daley - Picture

Victor James William Patrick Daley was an Australian poet. He was born in Ireland, and was educated at the Christian Brothers at Devonport in England. He arrived in Australia in 1878, and became a freelance...

Algy Pug and 12 more 13 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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E. E. Smith - Lord Tedric

Time is the strangest of all mysteries. Relatively unimportant events, almost unnoticed as they occur, may, in hundreds of years, result in Ultimate Catastrophe. On Time Track Number One, that was the immutable...

Mark Nelson 1 hour 17 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 04, Nov. 25, 1879

Short works

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 04, Nov. 25, 1879

Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, and more for...

Diana Schmidt and 6 more 1 hour 2 minutes Harper's Young People

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Will Carleton - Apples Growing

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. «What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer,...

David Lawrence and 11 more 21 minutes

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Antigone (Plumptre Translation)

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, «Antigone» has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience....

Expatriate 1 hour 19 minutes

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Tragedy

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Euripides - Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation)

Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as «perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written,» «The Trojan Women,» also known as «Troades,» is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC...

Expatriate 1 hour 20 minutes

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Bibles

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Darby Bible - Bible (DBY) NT 06: Romans

The Darby Bible consists of a translation of the New Testament by John Nelson Darby, originally published in 1867, and a translation of the Old Testament, included in later editions of the text, completed by Darby's...

Hultstrand 1 hour 20 minutes Bible (Darby Version)

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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound (Thoreau Translation)

Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, «Prometheus Bound» is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces...

Expatriate 59 minutes

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Tragedy

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Aeschylus - Persians (version 2)

The earliest of Aeschylus' plays to survive is «The Persians» (Persai), performed in 472 BC and based on experiences in Aeschylus's own life, specifically the Battle of Salamis. It is unique among surviving Greek...

Expatriate 1 hour 7 minutes

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Single author

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Patrick Brontë - Cottage Poems

Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and teacher, but he also was a poet and a novelist. Cottage Poems, his first published work,...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 1 hour 12 minutes

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