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Ivan the Fool
By Leo Tolstoy
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IVAN THE FOOL. In a certain kingdom there lived a rich peasant, who had three sons--Simeon (a soldier), Tarras-Briukhan (fat man), and Ivan (a fool)--and one daughter, Milania, born dumb. Simeon went ...
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The Dance of Death
By Gustave Flaubert
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A Simple Soul
By Gustave Flaubert
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For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Evêque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Félicité. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed th ...
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The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller
By Gustave Flaubert
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Julian's father and mother dwelt in a castle built on the slope of a hill, in the heart of the woods. The towers at its four corners had pointed roofs covered with leaden tiles, and the foundation res ...
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The Lady with the Dog
By Anton Chekhov
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Banker and bourgeois family man Dmitriy Gurov has a roving eye and is always on the lookout for his next conquest in Anton Chekhov’s 1899 story The Lady with the Dog. On holiday one year, he meets a ...
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The Black Monk
By Anton Chekhov
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A Doctor's Visit
By Anton Chekhov
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THE Professor received a telegram from the Lyalikovs' factory; he was asked to come as quickly as possible. The daughter of some Madame Lyalikov, apparently the owner of the factory, was ill, and that ...
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Book Sampler: Jane Austen
By DailyLit
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Jane Austen—or just Jane, to some fans—has become synonymous with sharp wit, hopeful romance, and a singularly popular book called Pride and Prejudice. Tempting as multiple visits with Mr. Darcy m ...
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Book Sampler: Best of Brit Lit
By DailyLit
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From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf, Britain has produced a dazzling array of literary greats. The Best of the Brits Sampler gives you tastes of some of the most interesting, important, and beautiful writi ...
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Clarissa Volume 3
By Samuel Richardson
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A young woman struggles to maintain her innocence and virtue despite the pressures of a libertine rake and her restrictive family in Clarissa, Samuel Richardson’s epic eighteenth-century novel that ...
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America's Greatest Hits
By DailyLit
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The American dream comes alive through the voices of some of its most fabled leaders.
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Robin Hood: How Robin Hood Became an Outlaw
By J. Walker Mcspadden
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Everyone knows the story of Robin Hood—the archer who robs the rich and gives to the poor, who roams the land his band of outlaws like Little John, who's in love with Maid Marian. But how well d ...
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