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Magna Carta

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The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version…

Chapter 12

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Jerome K. Jerome


Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

Ch. IX. Trafalgar Part 1

In Famous Sea Fights

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John R. Hale


I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I sha…

Vol 04, Ch. 19

In The Mysteries of Udolpho

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Ann Radcliffe


Considered a change agent in early Gothic romance; oft-referenced in later literary works or paid homage to by such authors as Jane Austen (…

Chapter 13 - How Baron Conrad Held the Bridge

In Otto of the Silver Hand

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Howard Pyle


The story of little Otto, a gentle, peace-loving child born into the heart of turmoil and strife in the castle of a feuding robber baron in …

Babby Burds

In Short Poetry Collection 008

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John Hartley


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Appendix 01

In The Prince

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Niccolò Machiavelli


ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (…

Chapter II, Part 2

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II.In this chapter we see the rest…

Chapter 2 – Paulina

In Villette

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Charlotte Brontë


After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

Chapter IV, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 04)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter is a bit of a mixture. It begins with the death of Charles II and then goes on to James II. Judge Jeffries then makes an appear…

Chapter III, Part 2

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…