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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, History
Book Title: The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
Author: Anonymous
Book Description:
CHAPTER ONE
Cormac's Fore-Elders.
Harald Fairhair was king of Norway when this tale begins. There
was a chief in the kingdom in those days and his name was Cormac;
one of the Vik-folk by kindred, a great man of high birth. He
was the mightiest of champions, and had been with King Harald in
many battles.
He had aMore... | |
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Book Title: The Violet Fairy Book
Author: Andrew Lang
Book Description:
PREFACE
THE Editor takes this opportunity to repeat what he has often said before, that he is not the author of the stories in the Fairy Books; that he did not invent them `out of his own head.' He is accustomed to being asked, by ladies, `Have you written anything else except the Fairy Books?' He is then obliged toMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, Horror
Book Title: The Lair of the White Worm
Author: Bram Stoker
Book Description:
CHAPTER I - ADAM SALTON ARRIVES
Adam Salton sauntered into the Empire Club, Sydney, and found awaiting him a letter from his grand-uncle. He had first heard from the old gentleman less than a year before, when Richard Salton had claimed kinship, stating that he had been unable to write earlier, as he had found it veryMore... | |
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| | | | Category: Classic, Travel
Book Title: Tour through the Eastern Counties of England
Author: Daniel Defoe
Book Description:
I began my travels where I purpose to end them, viz., at the City of London, and therefore my account of the city itself will come last, that is to say, at the latter end of my southern progress; and as in the course of this journey I shall have many occasions to call it a circuit, if not a circle, so I chose to give it the titleMore... | |
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