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An Undivided Union

Oliver Optic

An Undivided Union is a juvenile fiction story based on the United States Civil War written by William Taylor Adams, pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Mass..

Australian Legendary Tales

 Australian Legendary Tales Folklore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies is a collection of fairy and folk tales written by K. Langloh Parker, a South Australian born writer who liv..

Clarimonde

Théophile Gautier

Clarimonde is a short horror story written by Théophile Gautier and published in La Chronique de Paris in 1836. It tells the story of a priest named Romuald who falls in love with Clarimonde, a beauti..

Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon

Hippolyte Taine

Mémoires du duc de Saint-Simon is an account of France history written by Hippolyte Adolphe Taine was a French critic and historian. He was the chief theoretical influence of French naturalism, a..

Sara Crewe

Frances Hodgson Burnett

The story told in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel, A Little Princess, was first written as a serialized novella, Sara Crewe, or What Happened at Miss Minchin’s, and published in St. Nicholas M..

The Life of Cicero, Volume One

Anthony Trollope

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Tro..

The Prussian Officer

D. H. Lawrence

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories is a collection of early short stories by D. H. Lawrence. It was published by Duckworth in London on 26 November 1914, and in America by B. W. Huebsch in 1916..

The Spirit of Rome

Vernon Lee

The Spirit of Rome is an account of Italian travel work written by Vernon Lee, the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget. She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her ..