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1601 - Fiction/19th Century/Mark
Twain
This work is several orders of magnitude more profane than
typical Mark Twain fare. Consider yourself warned.
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22 Goblins - Classics/India
Beware of Monks bearing gifts. Short fantastic tales from the
subcontinent.
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Allan Quatermain - Action Adventure/H
R Haggard
The Lad himself.
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Barlaam and Ioasaph - Classics/Egypt
There was at that time a certain monk, learned in heavenly
things, graced in word and deed, a model follower of every
monastic rule. Whence he sprang, and what his race, I cannot
say, but he dwelt in a waste howling wilderness in the land of
Senaar, and had been perfected through the grace of the
priesthood. Barlaam was this elder's name. --by St. John
Damascene
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Call of the Wild - Action
Adventure/Jack London
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 steamship and
transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of
men were rushing into the Northland.
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The Canterbury Tales -
Classics/Chaucer
And we watched the lady/as the Miller Told His Tale/while her
face at first just ghostly/turned a whiter shade of pale
(almost beat up a Procul Harum cover band for not knowing
that.)
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Complete Idiot's Guide To Choosing
Wine - Philip Seldon, Copyright 2002
An invaluable guide for anyone looking to learn more about
wine.
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Condensed Novels - Satire/Bret Harte
Harte's second published work, includes riffs on Charlie
Reade, Charlotte Bronte, Fenimoore Cooper, Wilkie Collins,
etc.
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CONFUCIAN ANALECTS - Classics/China
CHAP. III. 1. The Master said, 'If the people be led by laws,
and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they
will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame.
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Count Bunker - Satire
Sequel to Clouston's The Lunatic At Large
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The Count of Monte Cristo - Action
Adventure/Alexander Dumas Pere
'No, no,' continued Danglars; 'if we resolve on such a step,
it would be much better to take, as I now do, this pen, dip it
into this ink, and write with the left hand (that the writing
may not be recognized) the denunciation we propose.' And
Danglars, uniting practice with theory, wrote with his left
hand, and in a writing reversed from his usual style, and
totally unlike it, the following lines, which he handed to
Fernand, and which Fernand read in an undertone:
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A Damsel in Distress - Fiction/20th
Century/PG Wodehouse
The family of Lord Marshmoreton.
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David Copperfield - Fiction/19th
Century/Charles Dickens
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or
whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages
must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I
record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe)
on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night. It was remarked that
the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
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Declaration of Independence in
American--H. L. Mencken Satire
WHEN THINGS get so balled up that the people of a country got
to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own
hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting
maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why
they done it, so that everybody can see they are not trying to
put nothing over on nobody.
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The Dhammapada - Classics/India
Aphorisms from olden times.
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Don Quixote - Classics/Spain
In a village of La Mancha, the name of which I have no desire
to call to mind, there lived not long since one of those
gentlemen that keep a lance in the lance-rack, an old buckler,
a lean hack, and a greyhound for coursing.
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Dracula - Gothic Tales/Bram Stoker
I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early. Keeping my
cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently
and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy
or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door.
After a while, finding no response, I knocked and rang again,
still no answer.
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Egypt (La Mort De Philae/Pierre Loti
Unknown
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Emma - Fiction/19th Century/Jane
Austen
Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable
home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best
blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years
in the world with very little to distress or vex her.
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El Dorado - Action Adventure/Baroness
Orczy
Pimpernel in the New World
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The Epic of Kings - Classics/Near
East
Firdausi's tale -- you thought all the great stories were just
in the West?
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The Filigree Ball - Mystery/Anna
Katherine Green
For a detective whose talents, had not been recognized at
headquarters, I possessed an ambition which, fortunately for
my standing with the lieutenant of the precinct, had not yet
been expressed in words.
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Five Comedies -- William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's
Labours Lost, All's Well That Ends Well, and The Comedy of
Errors
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The Foolish Dictionary - Satire
LOBSTER The edible lobster is found off the New England Coast.
The two-legged species is found everywhere. All kinds are
green, but when roasted turn a bright red. Soubrettes are very
dependent on both varieties for a living; together they
furnish her with food, raiment, flats, diamonds, and
occasionally indigestion.
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Gitanjali - Classics/India
If the day is done, if birds sing no more, if the wind has
flagged tired, then draw the veil of darkness thick upon me,
even as thou hast wrapt the earth with the coverlet of sleep
and tenderly closed the petals of the drooping lotus at dusk.
--by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore
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Great Expectations - Fiction/19th
Century/Charles Dickens
Takes a benefactor to help you escape the decay... and visit
nicer clothiers.
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THE GREEN RUST - Mystery/Edgar
Wallace
'It should interest you very much,' he said. 'The effect of
Bromocine,' he went on, speaking with the quiet precision of
one who was lecturing on the subject to an interested
audience, 'is peculiar. It reduces the subject to a condition
of extreme lassitude, so that really nothing matters or seems
to matter. Whilst perfectly conscious the subject goes
obediently to his death, behaves normally and does just what
he is told--in fact, it destroys the will.'
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Gulliver's Travels into Several
Remote Nations of the World - Fiction/18th Century/Jonathan
Swift
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Hagakure (The Way of the Samurai).
Selections - Classics/Asia
Although it stands to reason that a samurai should be mindful
of the Way of the Samurai, it would seem that we are all
negligent. Consequently, if someone were to ask, 'What is the
true meaning of the Way of the Samurai?' the person who would
be able to answer promptly is rare. This is because it has not
been established in one's mind beforehand. From this, one's
unmindfulness of the Way can be known.
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The Happy Prince and Other Tales -
Fiction/19th Century/Oscar Wilde
Leaf after leaf of the fine gold the Swallow picked off, till
the Happy Prince looked quite dull and grey. Leaf after leaf
of the fine gold he brought to the poor, and the children's
faces grew rosier, and they laughed and played games in the
street. 'We have bread now!' they cried.
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Her Majesty's Servants--Rudyard
Kipling - Action Adventure/Rudyard Kipling
IT had been raining heavily for one whole month-raining on a
camp of thirty thousand men, thousands of camels, elephants,
horses, bullocks,, and mules, all gathered together at a place
called Rawalpindi, to be reviewed by the Viceroy of India. He
was receiving a visit from the Amir of Afghanistan-a wild king
of a very wild country; and the Amir had brought with him for
a bodyguard eight hundred men and horses who had never seen a
camp or a locomotive before in their lives.
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His Last Bow - Mystery/Arthur Conan
Doyle
The friends of Mr. Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that
he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by
occasional attacks of rheumatism. He has, for many years,
lived in a small farm upon the downs five miles from
Eastbourne, where his time is divided between philosophy and
agriculture.
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History of John Bull - Satire
When John first brought out the bills, the surprise of all the
family was unexpressible at the prodigious dimensions of them;
they would have measured with the best bale of cloth in John's
shop. Fees to judges, puny judges, clerks, prothonotaries,
philisers, chirographers, under-clerks, proclamators, counsel,
witnesses, jurymen, marshals, tipstaffs, criers, porters--by
John Arbuthnot
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How To Be Your Own Private Detective
- Report
An invaluable guide to publicly available tools almost anyone
can use to be your own private detective.
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I CHING. THE BOOK OF CHANGES -
Classics/China
3. In the third NINE, undivided, (we see its subject as) the
superior man active and vigilant all the day, and in the
evening still careful and apprehensive. (The position is)
dangerous, but there will be no mistake.--Note: One of the
Five Classics
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I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King,
Jr. - Classic Speech
Transcript from famous speech
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The Iliad of Homer (Prose) -
Classics/Greek
Sing, goddess, the wrath of Achilles Peleus' son, the ruinous
wrath that brought on the Achaians woes innumerable
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Initials Only - Mystery/Anna
Katherine Green
For a day Sweetwater acknowledged himself to be mentally
crushed, disillusioned and defeated. Then his spirits regained
their poise. It would take a heavy weight indeed to keep them
down permanently. His opinion was not changed in regard to his
neighbour's secret guilt.
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The Inferno - Classics/Italian
Literature
Dante's Epic. No real demand for Purgatorio or Paradiso.
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu -
Mystery/Sax Rohmer
What became of the Grand Duke Stanislaus? Elopement? Suicide?
Nothing of the kind. He alone was fully alive to Russia's
growing peril. He alone knew the truth about Mongolia. Why was
Sir Crichton Davey murdered? Because, had the work he was
engaged upon ever seen the light it would have shown him to be
the only living Englishman who understood the importance of
the Tibetan frontiers. I say to you solemnly, Petrie, that
these are but a few.
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Isaac Bickerstaff - Satire
From Richard Steele, the founder of the Tatler, later the
Spectator. Bickerstaff was first used by Jonathan Swift to
poke fun.
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Jane Eyre - Fiction/19th
Century/Brontes
Rochester, St. John, Family -- and a madwoman in the attic. By
Charlotte Bronte
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Jungle Tales of Tarzan - Action
Adventure/Edgar Rice Burroughs
TEEKA, STRETCHED AT luxurious ease in the shade of the
tropical forest, presented, unquestionably, a most alluring
picture of young, feminine loveliness. Or at least so thought
Tarzan of the Apes, who squatted upon a low-swinging branch in
a near-by tree and looked down upon her.
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Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice -
Fiction/20th Century/James Branch Cabell
IN Continental periodicals not more than a dozen articles in
all would seem to have given accounts or partial translations
of the Jurgen legends. No thorough investigation of this epos
can be said to have appeared in print, anywhere, prior to the
publication, in 1913, of the monumental Synopses of Aryan
Mythology by Angelo de Ruiz.
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Les Miserables - Fiction/19th
Century/Victor Hugo
Since geniuses, like demons, recognize the presence of a
superior God by certain signs, Thenardier comprehended that he
had to deal with a very strong person. It was like an
intuition; he comprehended it with his clear and sagacious
promptitude.
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Meditations - Classics/Roman
By Marcus Aurelius. Take it like a man.
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -
Mystery/Arthur Conan Doyle
'I think that you know me well enough, Watson, to understand
that I am by no means a nervous man. At the same time, it is
stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognize danger
when it is close upon you. Might I trouble you for a match?'
He drew in the smoke of his cigarette as if the soothing
influence was grateful to him.
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Metamorphosis - Classics/Roman
A wild romp. -- by Ovid
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Moby Dick: Or, The Whale -
Fiction/19th Century/Herman Melville
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago -- never mind how long
precisely -- having little or no money in my purse, and
nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would
sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
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Mohammed Ali and His House -
Fiction/19th Century/Luise Muhlbach
The two walk stealthily and rapidly down the garden-path.
Osman listens to their retreating footsteps, and, as they die
away in the distance, he draws a breath of relief. They are
good, zealous servants, and will obey his instructions
faithfully. He listens again eagerly, and again looks over
toward the harem, where be sees the lights still flitting
about and shadows passing the windows. --by Louise Muhlbach
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Nonsense Novels - Satire/Stephen
Leacock
'I intend,' he announced, 'to try a bold, a daring experiment,
which, if it succeeds, will bring us into immediate connection
with the world of spirits. My plan is to leave two sovereigns
here upon the edge of the table during the night. If they are
gone in the morning, I shall know that Q has contrived to
de-astralise himself, and has taken the sovereigns. The only
question is, do you happen to have two sovereigns? I myself,
unfortunately, have nothing but small change about me.'
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The Origin of Species by means of
Natural Selection - Modern Thinkers/Charles Darwin
From the most remote period in the history of the world
organic beings have been found to resemble each other in
descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups
under groups. This classification is not arbitrary like the
grouping of the stars in constellations. The existence of
groups would have been of simple significance, if one group
had been exclusively fitted to inhabit the land, and another
the water; one to feed on flesh, another on vegetable matter,
and so on
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man - Fiction/20th Century/James Joyce
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a
moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was
coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby
tuckoo His father told him that story: his father looked at
him through a glass: he had a hairy face.
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The Prince - Classics/Italian
Literature
Coming now to the other qualities mentioned above, I say that
every prince ought to desire to be considered clement and not
cruel. Nevertheless he ought to take care not to misuse this
clemency. Cesare Borgia was considered cruel; notwithstanding,
his cruelty reconciled the Romagna, unified it, and restored
it to peace and loyalty.
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes -
Mystery/Arthur Conan Doyle
It was in the year '95 that a combination of events, into
which I need not enter, caused Mr. Sherlock Holmes and myself
to spend some weeks in one of our great University towns, and
it was during this time that the small but instructive
adventure which I am about to relate befell us.
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Roman Fever - Fiction/20th
Century/Edith Wharton
There was nothing left but to mother her daughter; and dear
Jenny was such a perfect daughter that she needed no excessive
mothering. 'Now with Babs Ansley I don't know that I should be
so quiet,' Mrs. Slade sometimes half-enviously reflected; but
Jenny, who was younger than her brilliant friend, was that
rare accident, an extremely pretty girl who somehow made youth
and prettiness seem as safe as their absence. It was all
perplexing-and to Mrs. Slade a little boring.
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Shamela--Henry Fielding - Satire
Full Title: An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews.
In which, the many notorious Falshoods and Misrepresentations
of a Book called Pamela, Are exposed and refuted; and all the
matchless Arts of that young Politician, set in a true and
just Light. Together with A full Account of all that passed
between her and Parson Arthur Williams; whose Character is
represented in a manner something different from that which he
bears in Pamela. The whole being exact Copies of authentick
Papers delivered to the Editor. Necessary to be had in all
Families.
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She: A History of Adventure - Action
Adventure/H R Haggard
Some consider this the best of his 'small party goes off into
jungle and finds' novels. A guilty pleasure.
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The Sign of Four - Mystery/Arthur
Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-
piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case.
With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate
needle and rolled back his left shirtcuff. For some little
time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and
wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks.
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Sir Nigel - Mystery/Arthur Conan
Doyle
In those simple times there was a great wonder and mystery in
life. Man walked in fear and solemnity, with Heaven very close
above his head, and Hell below his very feet. God's visible
hand was everywhere, in the rainbow and the comet, in the
thunder and the wind. The Devil too raged openly upon the
earth; he skulked behind the hedge-rows in the gloaming.
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The Spell of Egypt - History/Travel/J
Walker McSpadden
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The Song of Roland -
Classics/Charlemagne
Blowing that horn.
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Stage-Land - Satire
He is always cheerful and always good. We never knew a bad
Irishman on the stage. Sometimes a stage Irishman seems to be
a bad man--such as the 'agent' or the 'informer'--but in these
cases it invariably turns out in the end that this man was all
along a Scotchman, and thus what had been a mystery becomes
clear and explicable. -- by Jerome K. Jerome
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A Tale of Two Cities - Fiction/19th
Century/Charles Dickens
Best of Times, Worst of Times...
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The Three Musketeers - Action
Adventure/Alexander Dumas Pere
Porthos
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Vikram and the Vampire -
Classics/India
Classic tales translated by Sir Richard Burton.
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