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The Mysterious Stranger, by Mark Twain. Part I. Jan 23, 2025

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Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Lucifer's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will blow you away. Ideas that can be traced back thousands of years in many religions.

What is existence really ... to quote that well known song by Eliphalet Oram Lyte ... Row, row, row your boat Gently down the stream, Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, Life is but a dream .... so dream on.

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The History of London, by Walter Besant. Part IV. Jan 23, 2025

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Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, were probably best known through the detailed 10-volume Survey of London published after his death.

This earlier single volume covers, in less depth, the whole period from prehistory until the 19th century. The book appears originally to have been written for boys, and, indeed, the chapters are called "Lessons". However, it is a very readable history and provides a fascinating insight into both London's past and the government of the City at the time the book was written (1894).

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The History of London, by Walter Besant. Part III. Jan 23, 2025

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The History of London, by Walter Besant. Part II. Jan 23, 2025

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The History of London, by Walter Besant. Part I. Jan 23, 2025

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Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress, by Fanny Burney. Part XVI. Jan 20, 2025

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The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives up her fortune to marry for love.

Jane Austen referred to Cecilia and other novels in her novel, Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh! It is only a novel!' replies the young lady, while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. 'It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda'; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best–chosen language.

The title of Austen's Pride and Prejudice may have been inspired by a passage at the end of Cecilia: “remember: if to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to pride and prejudice you will also owe their termination.” (Adapted from Wikipedia.)

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Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress, by Fanny Burney. Part XV. Jan 20, 2025

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Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress, by Fanny Burney. Part XIV. Jan 20, 2025

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Cecilia: Memoirs of an Heiress, by Fanny Burney. Part XIII. Jan 20, 2025

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