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Hindoo Tales or the Adventures of Ten Princes

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Daṇḍin


This book describes the adventures of ten Kumaras, i.e., young men, (all of whom are either princes or sons of royal ministers), as narrated…

34 - Six Hundred and Twenty-ninth Night to Six Hundred and Thirty-first Night

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06

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Richard Francis Burton and Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

00 - Translators' Preface.

In The World as Will and Idea Volume 1

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Arthur Schopenhauer


Schopenhauer used the word "will" as a human's most familiar designation for the concept that can also be signified by other words…

12 - THE RENUNCIATION

In The Hungry Stones And Other Stories

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Rabindranath Tagore


This is a collection of short stories written by the Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The stories contained in this volume were translate…

02 - Chapter 2

In The Double: A Petersburg Poem

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky


This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at …