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Venus and Adonis (Version 2)

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William Shakespeare


Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, …

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 13 (Supplem…

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Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators, and scholars. They are an amalgam of myth…

The Radium Pool

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Edward Earl Repp


Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool…

Selected Poems

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George Herbert


These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …

Concerning Virgins (version 2)

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Saint Ambrose


The value of this work is not limited to virgins. For although the author, Saint Ambrose of Milan, wrote this for his sister, the nun, Saint…

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 96-110

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St. Cyril of Alexandria and Cyril Of Alexandria


Sermons 96 through 110 cover the Gospel According to Luke 13:6 through 16:17. (Summary by the reader)The conclusion of Sermon 96, the whole …

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 66-80

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Cyril Of Alexandria


Sermons 66 through 80 cover the Gospel According to Luke 10:22 to 11:18. - Summary by the Reader

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 81-95

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Cyril Of Alexandria


Sermons 81 through 95 cover the Gospel According to Luke 11:19 to 12:59. (Summary by the reader)

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 57-65

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Cyril Of Alexandria


Sermons 57 through 65 cover the Gospel According to Luke 9:57 to 10:21. - Summary by the Reader

Four Hymns

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Edmund Spenser


Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…

Back to Methuselah

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George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 111-125

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Cyril Of Alexandria


Sermons 111 through 125 cover the Gospel According to Luke 16:19 through 18:34. (Summary by the reader)

The Age of Reason (version 3)

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Thomas Paine


In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…

My Life in Christ: Extracts from the Diary of Saint John of Kronstadt, Part 2

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Saint John Of Kronstadt


"May the living water of the Holy Ghost fill my heart, and may rivers of living water flow from my heart to the glory of God, and for t…

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 126-140

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Cyril Of Alexandria


Sermons 126 through 140 cover the Gospel According to Luke 18:35 through 22:6. - Summary by The Reader

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

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François Rabelais


This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…

The Defense of Poesy

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Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Amoretti and Epithalamion

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Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 141-157

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Cyril Of Alexandria


Sermons 141 through 157 cover the Gospel According to Luke 22:7 through 24:53. - Summary by The Reader

Sonnets

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Edna St. Vincent Millay


It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …

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