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The Cremation of Sam McGee

Robert Service

The Cremation of Sam McGee is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near ..

A Campfire Girl's Test of Friendship

Jane L. Stewart

A Campfire Girl's Test of Friendship is juvenile fiction story written by Jane L. Stewart...

De Decamerone van Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including The Decameron and On Famous Women..

Dover Beach

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems, but surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849..

On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

Joseph Lister

On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery written by Joseph Lister. Lister recorded the importance of his findings about the use of antiseptics in surgeries and the use of clean..

Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2

William Wordsworth

Poems in Two Volumes has been considered to be the peak of Wordsworth's power, and of his popularity. However, it was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries, including Lord Byron, whom Wordswo..

Round the Sofa

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Round the Sofa is an 1859 2-volume collection consisting of a novel with a story preface and five short stories by Elizabeth Gaskell.  The first volume consists of the novel My Lady Ludlow prefac..

Dakilang Asal

Aurelio Tolentino

Dakilang Asal is a a collection of poems written by Aurelio Tolentino...