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 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: 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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The History of the Caliph Vathek

By William Thomas Beckford

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William Beckford, born in 1759, the year before the accession of King George the Third, was the son of an Alderman who became twice Lord Mayor of London. His family, originally of Gloucestershire, had ...

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Jabberwocky

By Lewis Carroll

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And the mome raths outgrabe. 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! He took his vorpal sword in hand: And stood awhile in thought. And burbled as it came! The vorpal ...

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