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The story details one night in the life of Anthony the Great where Anthony is faced with great temptations, and it was inspired by the painting, which he saw...

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This is a story about a historical figure written by Abbott. The author describes in detail the youth of Caesar nd his role in the Sylla and Marius...

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Some of the best of ghost stories from Ambrose Bierce, including: Present at a hanging, A cold greeting, A Wireless Message, An Arrest, A Man with Two Lives,...

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Anthony Trollope was a British writer who is considered to be one of the most prominent authors of the Victorian era.  Trollope created the fictional county...

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu was a famous Irish writer best known for Gothic and mystery fiction.  Le Fanu was the most prominent ghost-story writer in the 19th...

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Johnny Town-mouse was born in a cupboard. Timmy Willie was born in a garden. Timmy Willie was a little country mouse who went to town by mistake in a hamper....

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Clinging to the altar of the sea-goddess Thetis for sanctuary, Andromache delivers the play's prologue, in which she mourns her misfortune (the destruction...

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Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of...

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Osmond Waymark, a struggling teacher answers a magazine advertisement, placed by Julian Casti, a half-Italian who had felt himself to be rejected by...

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol was written in exile in France. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to...

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An African-American author, essayist and political activist, Charles W. Chesnutt is best known for his novels and short stories exploring complex issues of...

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel by Mark Twain, first published in the United...

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According to the Introduction: "Fielding's third great novel has been the subject of much more discordant judgments than either of its forerunners. If we...

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Known as the “father of the American novel”, the late eighteenth century author Charles Brockden Brown wrote Gothic romances in American settings, paving...

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Tennyson Complete Works World's Best Collection This is the world’s best Alfred Lord Tennyson collection, including the most complete set of...

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Frances Hodgson Burnett was an English author best known for writing some of the greatest children’s novels in literature.  Some of Burnett’s works have...

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According to Wikipedia, "In the Days of the Comet is a 1906 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which the vapors of a comet are used as a device which...

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Jack London was an American author who wrote some of the most famous novels of the early 20th century.  London wrote on a variety of topics and is still one...

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According to Wikipedia: "O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are...