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In Popular Tales from the Norse

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George Dasent and Sir George Webbe Dasent


The most careless reader can hardly fail to see that many of the Tales in this volume have the same groundwork as those with which he has be…

Part 1: Chapter 03

In Nostromo

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Joseph Conrad


Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …

The Narbonne Lycosa: The Family

In The Life of the Spider

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J. Henri Fabre and Jean-Henri Fabre


Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre was a French entomologist and author. He was born in St. Léons in Aveyron, France. Fabre was largely an auto…

Furisode

In In Ghostly Japan

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Lafcadio Hearn


This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries…

The Book of the Machines

In Erewhon

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Samuel Butler


Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly d…