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ON THE ALLEGED OPTIMISM OF DICKENS

In Charles Dickens

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G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inim…

Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians Part I

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Chapter XLIX: Conquest of Italy by the Franks Pt. II

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V

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Edward Gibbon

The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Chapter 12, part 1

In A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol II

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John Bagnell Bury

J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…

Vol I Ch 4: From Madeira to the Barrier, pt 1

In The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian Antarctic expedition in the Fram, 1…

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Roald Amundsen

In contrast to Scott's South Pole expedition, Amundsen's expedition benefited from good equipment, appropriate clothing, and a fundamentally…

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 3)

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Stephen Leacock

Widely considered a classic of Canadian humorous literature, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town tells stories set in the fictional town of M…

54 - The Squirrel's Story, Lillian M. Gask

In The Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

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William Patten and Variousandwilliam Patten

The eighth book in the Junior Classics Series is an anthology of collected animal and nature tales designed to appeal to the young and young…

Chapter 20 Mood and Will

In Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood

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George MacDonald

This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he b…

20 A Man’s Confession

In Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story

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Charles Ross Jackson

There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murde…