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 | |  | | Category: Action, Adventure, Classic Book Title: The Three Musketeers Author: Alexandre Dumas Book Description: 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of ROMANCE OF THE ROSE was born, appeared to be in as perfect a state of revolution as if the Huguenots had just made a second La Rochelle of it. Many citizens, seeing the women flyingMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: The Edgar Allan Poe Collection Author: Edgar Allan Poe Book Description: Books:
The Masque of the Red Death
Message found in a Bottle
The Premature Burial
The Raven
The Sphinx
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Cask of Amontillado
The Complete Collection of Poems
The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Masque of the Red Death
Edgar Allan Poe
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: Barnaby Rudge Author: Charles Dickens Book Description: PREFACE
The late Mr Waterton having, some time ago, expressed his opinion that ravens are gradually becoming extinct in England, I offered the few following words about my experience of these birds.
The raven in this story is a compound of two great originals, of whom I was, at different times, the proud possessor. The firstMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic Book Title: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson Author: Mark Twain Book Description: CHAPTER 1
Pudd'nhead Wins His Name
Tell the truth or trump--but get the trick.
--Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing,
on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journey,
per steamboat, below St. Louis.
In 1830 it was a snug collection of modestMore... | |
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 | |  | | Category: Classic, Romance Book Title: The Mysterious Stranger Author: Mark Twain Book Description: Chapter 1
IT WAS IN 1590 -- winter. Austria was far away from the world, and
asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so
forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that
by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of BeliefMore... | |
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