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Why Some Succeed While Others Fail by Benjamin Franklin
This biography of Benjamin Franklin was written by H.A. Lewis in his book, Hidden Treasures: Why Some Succeed While Others…
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A Child’s Biography by Benjamin Franklin
This biography of Benjamin Franklin for children was excerpted from Mary Stoyell Stimpson’s book, A Child’s Book of American Biography…
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A Child’s Biography by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson for children was excerpted from Mary Stoyell Stimpson’s book, A Child’s Book of American…
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Tom Tiddler’s Ground by Charles Dickens
Table of ContentsChapter I – Picking Up Soot And CindersChapter II – omittedChapter III – omittedChapter IV – omittedChapter V…
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To Be Read at Dusk by Charles Dickens
One, two, three, four, five. There were five of them. Five couriers, sitting on a bench outside the convent on…
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Three Detective Anecdotes by Charles Dickens
I. – The Pair of Gloves ‘It’s a singler story, sir,’ said Inspector Wield, of the Detective Police, who, in…
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The Wreck of the Golden Mary by Charles Dickens
THE WRECK I was apprenticed to the Sea when I was twelve years old, and I have encountered a great…
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The Trial for Murder by Charles Dickens
I have always noticed a prevalent want of courage, even among persons of superior intelligence and culture, as to imparting…
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The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton by Charles Dickens
The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton is excerpted from Dickens’ first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1837), chapter…
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The Signal Man by Charles Dickens
“Halloa! Below there!” When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his…
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