Literature
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The Fat of the Land by Anzia Yezierska
The Fat of the Land was Yezierska’s “break-out” story, featured in Edward J. O’Brien’s collection, Best Short Stories of 1919.…
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Hunger by Anzia Yezierska
Hunger was published in Yezierska’s short story collection, Hungry Hearts (1920). Samuel Goldwyn bought the rights, and adapted the stories…
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How I Found America by Anzia Yezierska
How I Found America, in three parts, was published in Yezierska’s short story collection, Hungry Hearts (1920). Samuel Goldwyn bought…
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Withstanding The Monarch In His Wrath by Charlotte M. Yonge
A.D. 389 When a monarch’s power is unchecked by his people, there is only One to whom he believes himself…
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What Is Better Than Slaying A Dragon by Charlotte M. Yonge
What Is Better Than Slaying a Dragon was published in A Collection of Golden Deeds (1864)What Is Better Than Slaying…
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Under Ivan The Terrible by Charlotte M. Yonge
1564. Prince Andrej Kourbsky was one of the chief boyards or nobles at the Court of Ivan, the first Grand…
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The Voluntary Convict by Charlotte M. Yonge
1622 In the early summer of the year 1605, a coasting vessel was sailing along the beautiful Gulf of Lyons,…
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The Vendeans by Charlotte M. Yonge
1793 While the greater part of France had been falling into habits of self- indulgence, and from thence into infidelity…
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The Two Friends Of Syracuseby Charlotte M. Yonge
B.C. 380 (CIRCA) Most of the best and noblest of the Greeks held what was called the Pythagorean philosophy. This…
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The Stories Of Alcestis And Antigone by Charlotte M. Yonge
It has been said, that even the heathens saw and knew the glory of self- devotion; and the Greeks had…
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