
Of Street Piemen
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'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the...

A Hippo Banquet
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'While engaged on this hunt I felt the earth quiver under my feet, and heard a soft big soughing...

A Room with a View
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The Penguin English Library Edition of A Room with a View by E. M. Forster '"But you do," he went...

The Beautifull Cassandra
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'She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.' A selection of Austen's...

The Meek One
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'I could see that she was still terribly afraid, but I didn't soften anything; instead, seeing that...

The Old Nurse's Story
John Milton and Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands...

The Woman in White
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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 'In one moment, every...

The Yellow Wall-Paper
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'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is...

How a Ghastly Story Was Brought to Light by a Common or Garden Butcher's Dog
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'The devil gave the woman a nudge: "Look at that belt full of money peeping out from under the...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
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'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim...