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The Enlightenment The Enlightenment, sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason, was a confluence of ideas and activities that took place throughout the eighteenth century in Western …

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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations A Collection of over 8000 Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature.

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It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the …

How Much Land Does a Man Need? I An elder sister came to visit her younger sister in the country. The elder was married to a tradesman in town, the younger to a peasant in the …

Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), American playwright and author, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1919 for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and again in 1922 for Alice Adams (1921), later …

White Nights (1848) A sentimental story from the diary of a dreamer FIRST NIGHT It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader. The sky …

Shooting An Elephant An essay by George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in 1936. In Moulmein, in Lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people – the …