Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION 3.0
CHAPTER I
Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sisteron the bank, and of
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The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
by James Fenimore Cooper
INTRODUCTION
It is believed that the scene of this tale, and most of theinformation necessary to understand its allusions, arerendered sufficiently obv
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Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family,though not of that country, my father being a foreigner of Bremen,who settled first at Hull.
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth,--a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self.
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Samuel-De-Champlain
Champlain Navigates the Penobscot River
5th September 1604 ... The same day we passed also near to an island about four or five leagues long. From this island to the main land on the north, the distance is less than a hundred paces. It is very high, and notched in places, so that there is the appearance to one at sea, as of seven or eight mountains extending along near each other
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Susan Hand Shetterly
Factory Days
Two months after we moved onto our land, we ran out of money. For some reason, this astonished us. It wasn't that we didn't have enough for a winter's trip to Florida or a second car; we didn't have enough for a comb or a bottle of cooking oil.
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Debra Spark
When I drive from my home in mid-Maine to the coast, I pass a dilapidated chicken barn that never fails to affect me. It's a gigantic wooden structure, collapsing in on itself, as if a tremendous shoe had stomped on the roof then given the wall a kick for good measure.
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Rasul Gamzatov - A Famous Poet of Dagestan
Rasul Gamzatov was born on September 8, 1923, in the Avar village of Tsada in the north-east Caucasus. His father, Gamzat Tsadasa, was a well-known bard, heir to the ancient tradition of minstrelsy still thriving in the mountains.
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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko is among the most acclaimed poets of the former Soviet Union. A graduate of the Gorki Literary Institute in Moscow; Yevtushenko won fame in his homeland when he published his poetry volume Third Snow in 1955.
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