Literature
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Who Was To Blame? by Anton Chekhov
As my uncle Pyotr Demyanitch, a lean, bilious collegiate councillor, exceedingly like a stale smoked fish with a stick through…
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Zinotchka by Anton Chekhov
THE party of sportsmen spent the night in a peasant’s hut on some newly mown hay. The moon peeped in…
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The Court of Love by Geoffrey Chaucer
This poem was Geoffrey Chaucer’s first writing of consequence, composed at eighteen while he was studying at Cambridge (1346). The…
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A Matter of Interest by Robert W. Chambers
A MATTER OF INTEREST. He that knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him.He…
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In the Court of the Dragon by Robert W. Chambers
“Oh, thou who burn’st in heart for those who burnIn Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn;How long be…
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Passeur by Robert W. Chambers
O friends, I’ve served ye food and bed;O friends, the mist is rising wet;Then bide a moment, O my dead,Where,…
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Pompe Funèbre by Robert W. Chambers
A wind-swept sky,The waste of moorland stretching to the west;The sea, low moaning in a strange unrest—A seagull’s cry. Washed…
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Romance by Robert W. Chambers
From Collier’s Magazine, 1908. A story of the American Civil War. Her instructions had been unusually rigid; she was to…
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The Demoiselle d’Ys by Robert W. Chambers
“Mais je croy que jeSuis descendu on puizTénébreux onquel disoitHeraclytus estre Vereté cachée.” “There be three things which are too…
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The Key to Grief by Robert W. Chambers
The moving finger writes, and, having writ,Moves on; nor all your piety nor witShall lure it back to cancel half…
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