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Selections from American authors. A reading book for school and home. Franklin, Adams, Cooper, Longfellow

Benjamin Franklin · 1879 · Scanned text · Free in the US

104,752 words · about 7 h 20 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1879, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/18013446); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Language
English
Published
1879
Length
104,752 words · about 7 h 20 min
Sections
11 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (11)
  1. Front matter about 2 min
  2. PART SECOND. Prelude ....... 33 under 1 min
  3. PART THIRD. Prelude .63 about 3 h 44 min
  4. Chapter I about 12 min
  5. Chapter II about 9 min
  6. Chapter IV about 2 h 33 min
  7. Part Second. Prelude about 26 min
  8. Part Third. Prelude about 1 min
  9. I about 4 min
  10. II about 6 min
  11. IV about 3 min
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Front matter

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T* kUMTED STATES OF AMElflcl!

SELECTIONS

PART SECOND. Prelude ....... 33

Sicilian's Tale. The Bell of Atri . . . . .33

V Poet's Tale. Lady Wentwortii ...... 42

(/Theologian's Tale. The Legend Beautiful . . .47 •^Student's Tale. The Baron of St. Castine . . '. 52

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