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In The Duke's Children

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Anthony Trollope

In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…

03 -- Bk First, Ch First, Sec 3

In In the Days of the Comet

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H. G. Wells

William ("Willie") is a student living in the British town of Clayton. As a Socialist, he tries to move power from the upper class…

17 - Book III, Chapters 27-30

In Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

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The Venerable Bede

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England gene…

Chapter 12, part 05

In History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…

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David Hume

David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…

11 - The Bishop Sends His Inhibition.

In The Last Chronicle of Barset

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Anthony Trollope

Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar…

Chapter 6: Women in a Modern Utopia, Sections 1-4

In A Modern Utopia

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H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells's proposal for social reform was the formation of a world state, a concept that would increasingly preoccupy him throughout the …