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DOCTOR MARIGOLD by Charles Dickens(read and download)
Charles Dickens. DOCTOR MARIGOLD I am a Cheap Jack, and my own father’s name was Willum Marigold. It was in his lifetime supposed by some that his name was William, but my own father always consistently said, No, it was Willum. On which point I content myself with looking at…
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A HOUSE TO LET by Charles Dickens (read and download)
A HOUSE TO LET by Charles Dickens Contents: Over the Way The Manchester Marriage Going into Society Three Evenings in the House Trottle’s Report Let at Last OVER THE WAY I had been living at Tunbridge Wells and nowhere else, going on for ten years, when my medical man–very clever…
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OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck (read online)
OF MICE AND MEN by John Steinbeck ONE A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The water is warm too, for it has slipped twinkling over the yellow sands in the sunlight before reaching the narrow…
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Lady into fox by David Garnett (read online)
David Garnett. Lady into fox Wonderful or supernatural events are not so uncommon, rather they are irregular in their incidence. Thus there may be not one marvel to speak of in a century, and then often enough comes a plentiful crop of them; monsters of all sorts swarm suddenly upon…
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll (read)
THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits by Lewis Carroll PREFACE If – and the thing is wildly possible – the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be based, I feel convinced, on the line…
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The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe (read)
Edgar Allan Poe. The Cask of Amontillado The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At…
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The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe(read online)
Edgar Allan Poe. The Masque of the Red Death The “Red Death” had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal–the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse…
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The Apple Tree by John Galsworthy (read online)
John Galsworthy The Apple Tree “The Apple-tree, the singing, and the gold.” On their silver-wedding day Ashurst and his wife were motoring along the outskirts of the moor, intending to crown the festival by stopping the night at Torquay, where they had first met. This was the idea of Stella…
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Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream by James Alan Gardner
James Alan Gardner. Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream Three Hearings on the Existence of Snakes in the Human Bloodstream. Asimov’s Science Fiction, Feb 1997 1. Concerning an Arrangement of Lenses, So Fashioned as to Magnify the View of Divers Animacules, Too Tiny to be…
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Johnny Mnemonic by William Gibson(read online)
William Gibson. Johnny Mnemonic I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you’re crude, go technical; if they think you’re technical, go crude. I’m…
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