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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Basil Hall Chamberlain - Aino Folk-Tales

Not for the squeamish or for children, these folk-tales are from the Ainu, the somewhat mysterious indigenous people of Japan, thousands of whom still live in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. Ranging over all...

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Single author

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Conrad Aiken - House of Dust: A Symphony

The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World War I depictions of human mortality and loss, the poem develops its movements...

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

438

May Sinclair - Flaw in the Crystal

One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to...

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Plays

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Rachel Crothers - Man's World

The mysterious Frank Ware is a woman writer forced to write under a masculine pseudonym in order to win literary respect. Adding to her enigmatic status is the fact that she lives in New York City with her adopted...

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Literary Fiction

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Anton Chekhov - Ward No. 6

The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provincial lunatic asylum, overseeing with weary, dubious policies a...

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Literary Fiction

450

May Sinclair - Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares for her aging parents, waiting for a man to marry. When her opportunity...

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Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems

Poetry

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Conrad Aiken - Nocturne of Remembered Spring, and Other Poems

Written at the height of the Great War, the poems of this volume are suffused with a sense of melancholy and tragedy. Some of the poems (such as «1915: The Trenches») speak directly of war-time scenes and images, but...

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation)

«Oedipus at Colonus» (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles'...

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Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

Tragedy

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Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of hand that fooled all participants, substituted a deer for the daughter....

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Aeschylus - Agamemnon (Browning Translation)

The play Agamemnon details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of...

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Tragedy

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Euripides - Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation)

Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the Oresteia, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first...

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (Murray Translation)

«Oedipus Rex» (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as «Oedipus the King» or «Oedipus the Tyrant,» is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted...

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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