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"The first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brillancy that obscurity in which the earlier history...

"Of course there was a Great House at Allington." Lily (Lilian), Bell (Isabella), and their mother, Mrs. Dale, live in a cotta...

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec source Wikimedia Commons Ah, my first essay by Aldous Huxley and I didn't know what style to expect.  He fi...

"When young Mark Robarts was leaving college, his father might well declare that all men began to say all good things to him, and to ...

I haven't yet read enough of Orwell's works to decide whether I like him or not, but one thing I have learned in our short acqua...

"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we heart it cry. But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As ...

Interior of a Tavern, Peasants Carousing (1635) Master of the Large Jars source ArtUK I've been keen to read a Chesterton essay f...

"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." An orphan child badly treated by rich relatives.  A grim and lonely scho...

"When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were red...

"Long ago there was a little land, over which ruled a regulus or kinglet, who was called King Peter, though his kingdom was but littl...