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Don: The Story Of A Greedy Dog

In The Talking Horse And Other Stories

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F. Anstey


A collection of short stories by famed humorist and Punch magazine staff member, F. Anstey, pseudonym for Thomas Anstey Guthrie. They range …

CHAPTER IV, BATTLE ON LATMOS

In Minos of Sardanes

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Charles B. Stilson


The micro cosmos of Sardanes faces macro calamity as climatic disruption and social upheaval threaten its existence. Its inhabitants, an anc…

Chapter VIII - The Battle of Hastings, 1066 - Part 1

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

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Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy


This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

Fredericksburg, part 1

In Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

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George Francis Robert Henderson


Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War is a book combining a biography and military history of Confederate Lt. General Thomas Jonathan…

Gorgias

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Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

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Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

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Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

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Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

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Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

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Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

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Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

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CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…

Running Fox

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Elmer Russell Gregor


Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…