The Black Cat, by Edgar Allan Poe For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet mad am I not—and very surely do I [...]

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Excerpt from Bleak House, Charles Dickens I THE COURT OF CHANCERY An Englishman named Jarndyce, once upon a time having made a great fortune, died and left a great will. The persons appointed to carry out its provisions could not agree; they fell to disputing among themselves and went to law over it. The court [...]

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Excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens I How Lucie Found A Father II Darnay Caught In The Net III Sydney Carton’s Sacrifice I   HOW LUCIE FOUND A FATHER A little more than a hundred years ago there lived in London (one of the two cities of this tale) a lovely girl [...]

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Sketches By Boz, Charles Dickens A VISIT TO NEWGATE ‘The force of habit’ is a trite phrase in everybody’s mouth; and it is not a little remarkable that those who use it most as applied to others, unconsciously afford in their own persons singular examples of the power which habit and custom exercise over the minds [...]

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