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Book Title: A Child's History of England
Author: Charles Dickens
Book Description:
CHAPTER I - ANCIENT ENGLAND AND THE ROMANS
IF you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The littleMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Christian Books, Classic
Book Title: Christian Science
Author: Mark Twain
Book Description:
PREFACE
BOOK I of this volume occupies a quarter or a third of the volume,
and consists of matter written about four years ago, but not hitherto
published in book form. It contained errors of judgment and of fact.
I have now corrected these to the best of my ability and later knowledge.
Book II was written at theMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, History
Book Title: The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
Author: Anonymous
Book Description:
CHAPTER ONE
Cormac's Fore-Elders.
Harald Fairhair was king of Norway when this tale begins. There
was a chief in the kingdom in those days and his name was Cormac;
one of the Vik-folk by kindred, a great man of high birth. He
was the mightiest of champions, and had been with King Harald in
many battles.
He had aMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, Fantasy
Book Title: In the Year 2889
Author: Jules Verne
Book Description:
Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this 29th century live
continually in fairyland. Surrounded with marvels, they are indifferent to
marvels. To them all seems natural. Could they but appreciate the refinements of
civilization in our day; could they but compare the present with the past, and
recognizeMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, History
Book Title: BEOWULF - PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSE
Author: Anonymous
Book Description:
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, inMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, Horror
Book Title: The Lair of the White Worm
Author: Bram Stoker
Book Description:
CHAPTER I - ADAM SALTON ARRIVES
Adam Salton sauntered into the Empire Club, Sydney, and found awaiting him a letter from his grand-uncle. He had first heard from the old gentleman less than a year before, when Richard Salton had claimed kinship, stating that he had been unable to write earlier, as he had found it veryMore... | |
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Book Title: The Invisible Man
Author: Herbert George Wells
Book Description:
Chapter 1
The Strange Man's Arrival
The stranger came early in February one wintry day, through a biting
wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the
down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station and
carrying a little black portmanteau in his thickly gloved hand. He
was wrapped up fromMore... | |
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Book Title: A Dream of Armageddon
Author: Herbert George Wells
Book Description:
The man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby. He moved slowly
despite his porter's urgency, and even while he was still on the platform I
noted how ill he seemed. He dropped into the corner across from me with a sigh,
made an incomplete attempt to arrange his traveling shawl, and became
motionless, his eyesMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, History
Book Title: The Story of Burnt Njal
Author: Anonymous
Book Description:
1. OF FIDDLE MORD
There was a man named Mord whose surname was Fiddle; he was the
son of Sigvat the Red, and he dwelt at the "Vale" in the
Rangrivervales. He was a mighty chief, and a great taker up of
suits, and so great a lawyer that no judgments were thought
lawful unless he had a hand in them. He had an onlyMore... | |
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