Tag: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
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Edgar Allen Poe-THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE-Chapter Two
THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE Truth is stranger than fiction.—_Old Saying_ Having had occasion, lately, in the course of some Oriental investigations, to consult the Tellmenow Isitsöornot, a work which…
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Edgar Allen Poe-A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM-Chapter Three
A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTROM. The ways of God in Nature, as in Providence, are not as our ways; nor are the models that we frame any way commensurate to…
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Edgar Allen Poe-THE PURLOINED LETTER-Chapter One
THE PURLOINED LETTER Nil sapientiæ odiosius acumine nimio.—_Seneca_. At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and…
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Mark Twain-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Chapter One
CHAPTER I. You don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of TheAdventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was madeby…
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Mark Twain-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II. We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back towards the endof the widow’s garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn’t scrapeour heads. When we was…
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Mark Twain-Adventures of Huckleberry Finn-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III. Well, I got a good going-over in the morning from old Miss Watson onaccount of my clothes; but the widow she didn’t scold, but only cleanedoff the grease…
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Mark Twain-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Chapter One
CHAPTER I “Tom!” No answer. “TOM!” No answer. “What’s gone with that boy, I wonder? You TOM!” No answer.
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Mark Twain-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Chapter Two
CHAPTER II Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright andfresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and ifthe heart was young…
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Mark Twain-The Adventures of Tom Sawyer-Chapter Three
CHAPTER III Tom presented himself before Aunt Polly, who was sitting by anopen window in a pleasant rearward apartment, which was bedroom,breakfast-room, dining-room, and library, combined. The balmy summerair, the…