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Ebook Title: The Gilded Age
Author: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
Ebook Description:
PREFACE.
This book was not written for private circulation among friends; it was
not written to cheer and instruct a diseased relative of the author's;
it was not thrown off during intervals of wearing labor to amuse an idle
hour. It was not written for any of these reasons, and therefore it is
submitted without the usualMore... | |
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Ebook Title: A Midsummer-Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook Description:
Act 1
Scene 1
[Athens. The palace of THESEUS.]
[Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants]
THESEUS
Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
Draws on apace; four happy days bring in
Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow
This old moon wanes! she lingersMore... | |
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Ebook Title: The Underground City
Author: Verne Jules
Ebook Description:
INTRODUCTION
AMONG so many effective and artistic tales, it is difficult to give a preference to one over all the rest. Yet, certainly, even amid Verne's remarkable works, his "Off on a Comet" must be given high rank. Perhaps this story will be remembered when even "Round the World in Eighty Days" and "Michael Strogoff" haveMore... | |
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Ebook Title: Measvre, For Measure
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook Description:
Actus primus, Scena prima.
Enter Duke, Escalus, Lords.
Duke. Escalus
Esc. My Lord
Duk. Of Gouernment, the properties to vnfold,
Would seeme in me t' affect speech & discourse,
Since I am put to know, that your owne Science
Exceedes (in that) the lists of all aduice
My strength can giue you: Then no moreMore... | |
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Ebook Title: The Tempest
Author: William Shakespeare
Ebook Description:
Act 1
"scene" 1
Scene 1
[On a ship at sea: a tempestuous noise]
of thunder and lightning heard.
[Enter a Master and a Boatswain]
Master
Boatswain!
Boatswain
Here, master: what cheer?
Master
Good, speak toMore... | |
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Ebook Title: From London to Land's End
Author: Daniel Defoe
Ebook Description:
Sir,
I find so much left to speak of, and so many things to say in every part of England, that my journey cannot be barren of intelligence which way soever I turn; no, though I were to oblige myself to say nothing of anything that had been spoken of before.
I intended once to have gone due west this journey; but then IMore... | |
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Ebook Title: The Call of the Wild
Author: Jack London
Ebook Description:
Into the Primitive
Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have
known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, But for
every tidewater dog, strong of muscle and with warm,
long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Because men,
groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and
because steamshipMore... | |
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Ebook Title: TOM SAWYER, DETECTIVE
Author: Mark Twain
Ebook Description:
CHAPTER I.
AN INVITATION FOR TOM AND HUCK
[Footnote: Strange as the incidents of this story are,
they are not inventions, but facts -- even to the
public confession of the accused. I take them from an
old-time Swedish criminal trial, change the actors,
and transfer the scenes to America. I have added some
details, butMore... | |
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