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- Book: 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
By Jules Verne
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The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and
puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to
mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the
public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring
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Book: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard
him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and
predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion
akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly,
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Book: Alice's Adventures In Wonderland
By Lewis Carroll
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Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into
the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations
in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures
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Book: The American
By Henry James
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On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining
at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the
centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious
ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed
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Book: Angel Of The Odd
By Edgar Allan Poe
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EVERYBODY knows, in a general way, that the finest place in the world
is -- or, alas, was -- the Dutch borough of Vondervotteimittiss. Yet as
it lies some distance from any of the main roads, being in a somewhat
out-of-the-way situation, there are perhaps very few of my readers
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Book: Around The World In Eighty Days
By Jules Verne
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In Which Phileas Fogg And Passepartout Accept Each Other, The One As
Master, The Other As Man. Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7,
Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.
He was one of the
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Book: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Edited by Charles W. Eliot
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I shall indulge the inclination so natural in old men, to be talking of themselves and their own past actions; and I shall indulge it without being tiresome to others (who, through respect to age, might conceive themselves obliged to give me a hearing), since this may be read or not as any one pleases. And, lastly (I may as well confess it, since my denial of it will be believed by nobody), perhaps I shall a good deal gratify my own vanity.
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Book: Sun Tzu — On The Art Of War
By Sun Tzu, Translated From Chinese By Lionel Giles
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1. Sun Tzu said: The art of war is of vital importance to the State.
2. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin.
Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.
3. The art of war, then, is governed by five constant factors, to be
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Book: At The Earth's Core
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
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In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe
this story. Nor could you wonder had you witnessed a recent experience
of mine when, in the armor of blissful and stupendous ignorance, I gaily
narrated the gist of it to a Fellow of the Royal Geological Society on
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Book: The Beasts Of Tarzan
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
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"The entire affair is shrouded in mystery," said D'Arnot. "I have
it on the best of authority that neither the police nor the special
agents of the general staff have the faintest conception of how it was
accomplished. All they know, all that anyone knows, is that Nikolas
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Book: Before Adam
By Jack London
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Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence
came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were
pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life.
They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of
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Book: The Black Arrow — A Tale Of The Two Roses
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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On a certain afternoon, in the late springtime, the bell upon Tunstall
Moat House was heard ringing at an unaccustomed hour. Far and near,
in the forest and in the fields along the river, people began to desert
their labours and hurry towards the sound; and in Tunstall hamlet a
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Book: Black Beauty
By Anna Sewell
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The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow
with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and
rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side
we looked into a plowed field, and on the other we looked over a
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Book: The Black Tulip
By Alexandre Dumas
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On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively,
so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with
its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses,
with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost
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Book: The Blue Fairy Book
By Andrew Lang, Editor
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Once upon a time in a certain country there lived a king whose palace was
surrounded by a spacious garden. But, though the gardeners were many
and the soil was good, this garden yielded neither flowers nor fruits,
not even grass or shady trees.
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Book: Bret Harte - Selected Stories
By Bret Harte
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There was a commotion in Roaring Camp. It could not have been a fight, for in 1850 that was not novel enough to have called
together the entire settlement. The ditches and claims were not
only deserted, but "Tuttle's grocery" had contributed its gamblers,
who, it will be remembered, calmly continued their game the day
that French Pete and Kanaka Joe shot each other to death over the
bar in the front room. The whole camp was collected before a rude
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Book: Burning Daylight
By Jack London
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It was a quiet night in the Shovel. At the bar, which ranged along
one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of
whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice
as remedies for scurvy. They argued with an air of depression and
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Book: The Call Of The Wild
By Jack London
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"Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its
brumal sleep; Wakens the ferine strain." Buck did not read the
newspapers, or he would have known that trouble
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Book: The Call Of The Canyon
By Zane Grey
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What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley
Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window.
It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray,
with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing
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Book: Captains Courageous — A Story Of The Grand Banks
By Rudyard Kipling
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The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North
Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn
the fishing-fleet. "That Cheyne boy's the biggest nuisance aboard,"
said a man in a frieze
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Book: The Chessmen Of Mars
By Edgar Rice Burroughs
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SHEA had just beaten me at chess, as usual, and, also as usual, I had
gleaned what questionable satisfaction I might by twitting him with this
indication of failing mentality by calling his attention to the nth time
to that theory, propounded by certain scientists, which is based
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Book: A Christmas Carol
By Charles Dickens
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Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about
that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon `Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to.
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Book: The Circular Staircase
By Mary Roberts Rinehart
...This is the story of how a middle-aged spinster lost her mind, deserted her domestic gods in the city, took a furnished house
for the summer out of town, and found herself involved in one of
those mysterious crimes that keep our newspapers and detective
agencies happy and prosperous. For twenty years I had been...
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Book: A Short Collection Of — Edgar Allan Poe
By Edgar Allan Poe
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Once upon a midnight dreary,/ while I pondered, weak and weary,/ Over many a quaint and curious/ volume of forgotten lore/ — While I nodded, nearly napping,/ suddenly there came a tapping,/ As of some one gently rapping,/ rapping at my chamber door. / "'Tis some visiter," I muttered,
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Book: The Sayings of Confucious
Translated by James Legge
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CHAPTER XVI. The Master said, 'The mind of the superior man dwells on righteousness; the mind of the mean man dwells on gain.'
CHAPTER XVII. The Master said, 'When we see men of worth, we
should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary
character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.'
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Book: A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court
By Mark Twain ( Samuel Langhorne Clemens )
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THE ungentle laws and customs touched upon in this tale are historical,
and the episodes which are used to illustrate them are also historical. It is not pretended that these laws and customs existed in England in the sixth century; no, it is only pretended that inasmuch as they did exist ...
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Book: The Count Of Monte Cristo — Volume One
By Alexandre Dumas
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On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the
three-master, The Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.
As usual, a pilot put off immediately, and rounding the Chateau d'If,
got on board the vessel between Cape Morgion and Rion island
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Book: The Count Of Monte Cristo — Volume Two
By Alexandre Dumas
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The pretext of an opera engagement was so much the more feasible, as there
chanced to be on that very night a more than ordinary attraction at the
Academie Royale. Levasseur, who had been suffering under severe illness,
made his reappearance in the character of Bertrand, and, as usual, the
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Book: The Crimson Fairy Book
By Andrew Lang, Editor
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There was once a king's son who told his father that he wished
to marry. "No, no!" said the king; "You must not be in such a hurry. Wait till you have done some great deed. My father did not let me marry till I had won the golden sword you see me wear
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