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RudinSwan SongQuote, "The last years of the nineteenth century were for Russia tinged with doubt and gloom. The high-tide of vitality that had risen during the Turkish war...Uncle VanyaQuote, "MARINA. [Shaking her head] This house is topsy-turvy! The Professor gets up at noon, the samovar is kept boiling all the morning, and everything has...In The Fourth YearQuote, "In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a "War of Ideas." A phrase, "The War to end War," got into circulation, amidst...Little Wars
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The Cricket on the HearthThe Uncommercial TravellerBattling insomnia Charles Dickens spent his time taking long walks through London. The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches Dickens ma...To be Read at DuskTom Tiddler's GroundQuote, "A slothful, unsavoury, nasty reversal of the laws of human mature," said the Traveller; "and for the sake of GOD'S working world and its wholesomenes...Wreck of the Golden MaryQuote, "Notwithstanding my being, as I have mentioned, quite ready for a voyage, still I had some doubts of this voyage. Of course I knew, without being told...Note-Book of Anton ChekhovPictures of SwedenQuote, "Get on my back," says the stork, our green island's sacred bird, "and I will carry thee over the Sound. Sweden also has fresh and fragrant beech wood...The Bickerstaff-Partridge PapersQuote, "I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, than t...The Wild Knight and Other PoemsQuote, "Well, if in any woes or wars I bought my naked right to be, Grew worthy of the grass, nor gave The wren, my brother, shame for me."A Modest Proposal