Among The Novel

A billion children are at 'extremely high risk' of climate shocks, UNICEF says

(CNN) Almost half of the world's 2.2 billion children are living in countries that face an extremel...

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back to the kitchen, where the meal was now served

When it had gone, not too willingly-for our faithful friend dislikeparting from us and distrusted this...

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for we told the monk that we were searching for the tracks ofwild sheep

A week later came our opportunity of making this ascent of the moun-tain. forin mid-winter it ceased...

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Guard yourself, Leo,guard yourself

At any rate, Leo, why should she not still be sufficiently under its influence to cause her, without...

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I do not trust that insane brute

The hunt and the killWe reached our rooms, meeting no one in the passages, and there madeour preparatio...

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I will hope that it is so

The Double SignHard on twenty years have gone by since that night of Leo's vision-most awful years...

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In matters temporal, the Khan of KaloonThe Khan

ggle long centuries ago between the College and the people of thePlain it was decreed and swom to that...

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About Le fanu:Sheridan Le Fanu was born at No

About Le fanu:Sheridan Le Fanu was born at No. 45 Lower Dominick Steet, Dublinnto a literary famil...

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And you of course took it to himCertainly, sir

And you of course took it to himCertainly, sir. Mrs. Bliss had already prepared it when she called...

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Besides, how the deuce had I seen it

It required some nerve, I can tell you, to go to my haunted chamberext night, and lie down quietly...

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But of these I knew nothing yet

The cock he crew, away then flewthe fiend who had enslaved me through the awful watches of thenight;...

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But this was only part of the effect

perhap, was6 tery little done in the way of modernising details; and,here had beenetter so; for there...

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D-n him or it; curse the portrait and its original

Silence, meanwhile, grew more silent, and darkness darker. I listenedin vain for the rumble of a vehicl...

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Did you close the door when you left the house

Did you close the door when you left the house?Scarlett looked seriously at the massive panels, as...

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Oh, then, how would I know

Oh, then, how would I know? she answered. But it must be a wond-herful long time ago, for the housekeep...

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What was to prevent my enjoying anhours nap here

Now, Dick, you will hardly believe me, when I assure you, that formany nights after this last experienc...

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But where did that knowledge exist

The frightening thing, he reflected for the ten thousandth time as he forced his shoulders painfull...

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Actually he was not used towriting by hand

The thing that he was about to do was to open a diary.This was not illegal (nothing was illegal, since...

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had beeninflicted by Napoleon s teeth

The dogs flanked the procession and at the head of all marchedNapoleon's black cockerel. Boxer and...

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aLL that year the animals worked lke slaves

aLL that year the animals worked lke slaves. But they were happyin their work they grudged no effort...

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