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The Personal History of David CopperfieldCharles Dickens The Personal History of David Copperfield PREFACE I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to re...

Peter PanBarrie J. M. James Matthew Peter Pan Chapter 1 PETER BREAKS THROUGH All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to...

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Impressions of AmericaOscar Wilde Impressions of America IMPRESSIONS ILE JARDIN The lily’s withered chalice fallsAround its rod of dusty gold,And from the beech trees on the woldThe last wood-pigeon coos and calls.The gaudy leonine sunflowerHangs black and barren on its stalk,And down the windy g...

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Charles Dickens' Children StoriesDickens Charles Charles Dickens' Children Stories TROTTY VECK AND HIS DAUGHTER MEG "TROTTY" seems a strange name for an old man, but it was given to Toby Veck because of his always going at a trot to do his errands; for he was a porter, and carried letters and mes...

The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) NOTICE Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.B...