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Excerpt: Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol.

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...S BULBA.............................................................. 13 ST. JOHN?S EVE ......................................................... 130 THE CLOAK ................................................................ 146 HOW THE TWO IVANS QUARRELLED .................. 176 THE MYSTERIOUS PORTRAIT ................................ 223 THE CALASH .........................

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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.................................................................................................................................. 9 Lecture I: RELIGION AND NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC .............................................................

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