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Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

NOTES: «My Last Duchess» puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a...

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla (Version 2)

Laura grew up on a castle in the Austrian mountains with her father, slightly lonely as there are no potential companions around. Her loneliness is at an end when a carriage accindent close by their castle brings a...

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Travel & Geography

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George Walter Thornbury - Haunted London

London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound.

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - I Am The World

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections...

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Jean Ingelow - Comfort in the Night

Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Henry Lawson - Men Who Live It Down

MANY of the verses in this volume (When I Was King (1906)) appeared originally in the SYDNEY Bulletin, others in the Daily Telegraph, Town and Country Journal, Evening News, World's News, Australian Star, Amateur...

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Grace Harlowe with the U.S. Troops in the Argonne

Children's Fiction

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Jessie Graham Flower - Grace Harlowe with the U.S. Troops in the Argonne

Grace Harlowe continues her adventures in Europe, during World War I. She faces many perils and suffers heart ache, but still puts all of her effort into the war, driving her ambulance to help the injured American...

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 1, June 1899

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

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Action & Adventure

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Thomas Mayne Reid - Ocean Waifs

«The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon an object that has attracted his attention. It is a raft, with a disc not...

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Sara Teasdale - Lights

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published...

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Grace Harlowe with the Marines at Chateau Thierry

Children's Fiction

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Jessie Graham Flower - Grace Harlowe with the Marines at Chateau Thierry

Grace continues her war adventures over seas in France, continuing her work for the Red Cross. Set during World War I, Loyal Heart finds herself in much peril as she helps with the fight against the Germans. Summary...

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Walt Whitman - Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4

This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and...

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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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