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The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well- ... his life as a pirate. Defoe's description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and ...

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... and author Thomas Paine. The first volume begins with the famous words "These are the times that try men's souls". There were sixteen pamphlets in ...

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... nefarious criminal work -- theft, kidnapping, ransom, assassination, fraud -- and he never gets caught. The author's introduction:"The history of famous detectives, imaginary and ...

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A pastor's daughter is inadvertently involved the heist of the famous Dark Star gem. Is there a prince who can save her from ruin and recover the stone?

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... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective and illustrated by Sidney Paget.These are the first of the Sherlock Holmes short stories, originally ...

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... a principal character Uncas after the most famous of the Mohicans. The real Mohicans lived in the colony of Connecticut in the mid-seventeenth century, and ...

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... officer. They fall in love, but while Gatsby serves overseas, Daisy marries the brutal, ... says admiringly, in one of the novel's more famous descriptions. His millions made, Gatsby ...

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... Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am"), which occurs in ...

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(This has been called one of the two most famous riddle stories of all time, along with "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton ...

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... and social predictions which were daring for the time, prior to similar predictions by famous authors, such as travel by pneumatic tube ...

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... of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man In the Corner was one of the earliest ... the same tea-shop (the ABC Teashop on the corner of Norfolk Street and the Strand). They ...

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Called the most famous riddle mystery of all time, this very short ... his decision, he sees the princess among the spectators, who points him to the door on the right with a slight ...

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... of the two most famous riddle stories of all time, the other being "The Lady, or the Tiger?" ... a refund to purchasers if they could return the book with the seal still unbroken. We ...

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... -slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during ...

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... the first and most famous English translation of the The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. As a work of English literature FitzGerald's version of these ...

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... 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is widely considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and one of Poe's most famous short ...

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... Grahame's most famous short story. It is arguably much more well-known than Dream Days itself or the related The Golden Age ...

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... the character of Shylock.The title character is the merchant Antonio; not the Jewish moneylender Shylock; who is the play's most prominent and more famous ...

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... for which Bastiat is most famous along with The candlemaker's petition and the Parable of the broken window.In The Law, Bastiat states that ...

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... The Hound of the Baskervilles in 1901–1902 (although setting it before Holmes' death) Doyle came under intense pressure to revive his famous ...

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... five stories, "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket". It is most famous for its title ...

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... Sax Rohmer's famous detectives Gaston Max and Inspector Dunbar as they chase the international gang of hoodlums and their leader, the evil Dr. King ...

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... law, Lady Petherwin. In the three years that have elapsed since the deaths of both her ... her poor family.The events of the story concern Ethelberta's career as a famous poetess and ...

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What is the mystery centered in Jupiter's famous "Red Spot"? Two fighting Earthmen, caught by the "Pipe-men" like their vanished comrades, soon find out.

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Thoreau wrote his famous essay, On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, as a protest against an unjust but popular war and the immoral but popular institution of slave-owning.

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