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Guy de Maupassant
CONTENTS I. The Initiation of Saval II. Bougival and Love III. Enlightenment IV. From Emotion to Philosophy CHA
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Guy de Maupassant
CONTENTS I. The Initiation of Saval II. Bougival and Love III. Enlightenment IV. From Emotion to Philosophy CHA
Anton Chekhov
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Mark Twain
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Mark Twain
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Charles Dickens
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Charles Francis Adams
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Thomas Paine
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Baum, L. Frank
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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H. G. Wells
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Alexander Pushkin
John A. Carpenter
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Jerome K. Jerome
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
CHAPTER I. THERE IS NO ONE LEFT When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. I