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Ayesha Unveils

In She

Read by Jennie Hughes

H. Rider Haggard

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket w…

The Marriage of the Fox’s Daughter

In Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1)

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Pu Sung-ling, translated by Herbert Allen Giles and Songling Pu

"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supe…

Part 3. Babylonians and Assyrians

In The World’s Story Volume XIV: An Outline of Universal History

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Karl Ploetz

The fourteenth volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story has a different concept than the previous books edited by Eva March Tappan. …

Introductory

In Wisdom's Daughter

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H. Rider Haggard

A strange manuscript in an unknown language is found among the effects of the late Professor Horace Holly. Its translator discovers that whi…

Part 1 of The Argonauts: How the Centaur Trained the Heroes on Pelion

In The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

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Charles Kingsley

The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…

Book 3, part 1

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 1

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Ayesha's Alchemy

In Ayesha, the Return of She

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H. Rider Haggard

Ayesha, the return of She, is set 16 years after the previous novel She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the wor…

Chant premier, strophe 4 : Il y en a qui écrivent...

In Les Chants de Maldoror

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Comte de Lautreamont and Comte De Lautréamont

Les Chants de Maldoror is a poetic novel (or a long prose poem) consisting of six cantos. It was written between 1868 and 1869 by the Comte …

Chapter 8 Part 1 - MY LIFE AND TROUBLES DURING MY RESIDENCE IN UNYAS

In How I Found Livingstone

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Sir Henry M Stanley and Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United…