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The Last of the Mohicans -By James Fenimore Cooper
It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of the
information necessary to understand its allusions, are
rendered sufficiently obvious to the reader in the text
itself, or in the accompanying notes. Still there is so much
obscurity in the Indian traditions, and so much...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow -By Washington Irving
In the bosom of one of those spacious coves which
indent the eastern shore of the Hudson, at that broad
expansion of the river denominated by the ancient Dutch
navigators the Tappan Zee, and where they always
prudently shortened sail and implored the protection of St.
Nicholas when they...
The Lost World -By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless
person upon earth,—a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of
a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered
upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me
from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such...
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood -By Howard Pyle
You who so plod amid serious things that you feel it
shame to give yourself up even for a few short moments to
mirth and joyousness in the land of Fancy; you who think
that life hath nought to do with innocent laughter that can
harm no one; these pages are not for you. Clap to...
The Metamorphosis -By Franz Kafka
One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from
anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been
changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his
armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little,
his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bowlike
sections. From...
The Odyssey -By Homer
THE GODS IN COUNCIL—MIVERVA’S VISIT TO
ITHACA—THE CHALLENGE FROM TELEMACHUS
TO THE SUITORS.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled
far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with
whose manners and...
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