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Rooted in myth, occult mysteries, and belief in magic, these stories are populated by a lively cast of sorcerers, fairies, ghosts, and nature spirits. The great Irish poet heard these enchanting, mystical tales from Irish peasants, and the stories' anth ...

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Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street  is a  novella  by the American novelist  Herman Melville  (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymously in two parts in the November and December 1853 editions of& ...

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" The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man that decided that there was nothing to live for in the world, and therefore was determined to commit suicide. A ...

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  A Defence of Poetry  is an essay by the  English  poet  Percy Bysshe Shelley , written in 1821 and first published posthumously in 1840. It contains Shelley's famous claim that "poets are the unacknowledged le ...

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The greatest and most enduring of the prophets of the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle was prescient about the importance of heroism in defining a nation's ambition and character. First published in 1841, his On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in Hi ...

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" Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr (Baron) von Hardenberg (1772-1801), called Friedrich von Hardenberg. The death in 1797 of his young fiancé, Sophie von Kühn, led him to write Hymnen an d ...

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" Nathaniel Hawthorne (born Nathaniel Hathorne ; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was a 19th century American novelist and short story writer. He is seen as a key figure in the development of American literature for his tales of the nat ...

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THE FLEA. MARK but this flea, and mark in this, How little that which thou deniest me is ; It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,  And in this flea our two bloods mingled be. Thou know'st that this cannot be said A sin ...

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PREFATORY NOTE. Of the following studies in Emerson's poetry, as origi nally printed, my friends Charles Eliot Norton, William Rounseville Alger, and Charles Molloy, all veteran students of their revered friend's verse, and among the best living in ...

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" A Gentle Spirit , sometimes also translated as A Gentle Creature , is a short story written by Fyodor Dostoevsky in 1876. The piece comes with the subtitle of "A Fantastic Story," and it chronicles the relationship betw ...

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