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Lucretia P. Hale: A place for Oscar

LUCRETIA P. HALE — “I don’t like tiresome fables,” said Jack, throwing down an old book in which he had been trying to read; “it is so ridiculous making the beasts talk. Of course they —> Prosegui lettura >>

Francis Scott Fitzgerald: Jemina, The Mountain Girl

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FRANCIS SCOTT FITZGERALD – This don’t pretend to be “Literature.” This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of “psychological” stuff or “analysis.” Boy, you’ll love —> Prosegui lettura >>

Boyd Winchester: The Ordinary Reader and the Pleasure of Reading

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BOYD WINCHESTER — It is the pleasure, and not the profit, spiritual or temporal, of reading which most requires to be preached to the ordinary reader. All such pleasure ministers to the development of much —> Prosegui lettura >>

Benjamin De Casseres: Arcvad the Terrible

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BENJAMIN DE CASSERES — Arcvad ascended to the top of his observatory and looking through his giant telescope he had, in a moment, the planet earth under his microscopic eye. Arcvad was one hundred and fifty —> Prosegui lettura >>

O. Henry: The Memento

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O. HENRY – The window of Miss D’Armande’s room looked out onto Broadway and its theatres. But Lynette D’Armande turned her chair round and sat with her back to Broadway. She was an actress, and —> Prosegui lettura >>

Sherwood Anderson: The Man Who Became a Woman

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SHERWOOD ANDERSON – My father was a retail druggist in our town, out in Nebraska, which was so much like a thousand other towns I’ve been in since that there’s no use fooling around and —> Prosegui lettura >>

Lucretia P. Hale: Elizabeth Eliza Writes a Paper

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LUCRETIA P. HALE – Elizabeth Eliza joined the Circumambient Club with the idea that it would be a long time before she, a new member, would have to read a paper. She would have time —> Prosegui lettura >>

Edgar Allan Poe: The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

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EDGAR ALLAN POE – Of course I shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder, that the extraordinary case of M. Valdemar has excited discussion. It would have been a miracle had it —> Prosegui lettura >>

Edith Wharton: Xingu

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EDITH WHARTON – I. Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet alone. To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed —> Prosegui lettura >>

Sherwood Anderson: Tales are people who sit on doorstep of…

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SHERWOOD ANDERSON – Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. ♦ Tales are people who sit on the doorstep of the house of my mind. It is cold —> Prosegui lettura >>

Mark Twain: The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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MARK TWAIN – In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend’s friend, Leonidas W. —> Prosegui lettura >>

Edgar Allan Poe: The Philosophy Of Composition

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EDGAR ALLAN POE — Charles Dickens, in a note now lying before me, alluding to an examination I once made of the mechanism of “Barnaby Rudge,” says — “By the way, are you aware that —> Prosegui lettura >>

Edith Wharton: The Vice of Reading

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EDITH WHARTON – That “diffusion of knowledge” commonly classed with steam-heat and universal suffrage in the category of modern improvements, has incidentally brought about the production of a new vice — the vice of reading. No —> Prosegui lettura >>