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1. Introductory. 1. Literature and Language. The Languages of Modern Europe

In A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, Volume…

Read by Grant Hicks

George Lillie Craik

The History of English Literature and Language may be recommended to the student as a guide always sure, and as satisfactory as its limits w…

FRANCK

In Stories of Symphonic Music

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Lawrence Gilman

'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for sc…

10 - Satire 9

In Satires

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Juvenal and Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the …

The Third Customer and the Jade Idol

In Hagar of the Pawn-Shop

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Fergus Hume

Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge with her uncle Jacob, a miserly Lo…

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