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  • Persuasion (1818)
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    More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but poor and with no particular family connections to recommend him. Sir Wa...

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  • Pick-Up Lines, Puns, and More
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    I love puns, bad jokes crack me up, and I LOOVVVEEEE pick-up lines!!! So... ENJOY!!! October 31, 2017... apparently I can't add any more chapters? I'm just going to have a second book. Thanks for reading and happy Halloween!!!

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  • A House of Pomegranates (1891)
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    "A House of Pomegranates" is a collection of fairy tales. "The Young King" tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, he is brought to the palace to await his accession. "The Birthday of the Infanta" is about a hunchbacked dwarf, fo...

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  • The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
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    "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story...

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  • The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
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    "The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People" is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ in order to escape burdensome social obligations.

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  • Nobody's Girl (1893)
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    Journey of an orphan girl to find her relatives in Maraucourt. *This story belongs to Hector Malot. I don't own anything.

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  • The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
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    "The Cask of Amontillado" (sometimes spelled "The Casque of Amontillado") is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in the November 1846 issue of Godey's Lady's Book. The story, set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year, is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he be...

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  • The Railway Children (1906)
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    *Disclaimer: This story belongs to Edith Nesbit* After their father's mysterious disappearance, three children had to leave London to live in the countryside, where they discovered the railway.

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  • O'Pun Sesame
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    I'm a serial punner and simply addicted to double entendre. Speed punning is my idea of an adrenaline rush. So I decided to set myself a fun challenge - to combine poetry and punning and to do it within an hour. Writing this was about the most fun I've ever had composing verse. I hope that when you read this poem, yo...

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