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Animals, Children, Fairy tales, Fantasy, Fiction, Teen/Young adult

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...sin, a poor subaltern, and the next in the entail? Depend upon it, it is a fiction created either by papa’s hopes or Philip’s self-complacency, or els... ...‘I am glad you entered into it,’ said Philip; ‘it has every quality that a fiction ought to have.’ ‘I never read anything equal to the repentance of t... ...think it hardly safe for so excitable a mind to dwell much on the world of fiction,’ said Philip. ‘Nothing has affected him so much as Sintram,’ said ... ... Each person was to set down his or her favourite character in history and fiction, flower, virtue, and time at which to have lived, and these were al...

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...ike that; to act out constantly in life those dra- mas which move us so in fiction! I never imagined that good could be more interesting, more piquant... ...t the scene in “The Talisman” where Saladin cures the King of England is a fiction. Halpersohn possesses a silk purse which he steeps in water till th...

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...in real life, than the centaur, the chimera, or any other creature of mere fiction. But to let my reader into a secret, this knowledge of upper life, ...

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...Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of humour and his cynical outlook on life colour a collection of dictionary-...