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1. 13332
   • author: Benson, Luther
   • title: Fifteen Years in Hell: An Autobiography
   • date: None
   • words: 51041
   • flesch: 75
   • summary: Sometimes she goes to the portrait of your boyish face and looks at it; at other times she takes down some worn and faded garment, that you were wont to wear in those beautiful days of the past, and recalls how you looked when you wore it; then she goes to the room where you used to sleep and looks at the cradle in which she so often rocked you to sleep, and, after all is seen, she returns to her chair--the old easy chair--and waits to hear tidings of you. At such times I could distinctly remember the names and features of all the persons who dwelt in the vicinity of my father's house, although many of them died long ago or passed away from the neighborhood.
   • keywords: accursed; age; agony; aid; alcohol; alcoholic; appetite; asylum; attempt; audience; awful; bed; benson; best; better; black; blood; body; boston; bottle; boys; brain; break; breath; broken; burning; burst; case; chapter; childhood; children; cincinnati; city; clothes; cold; coming; company; condition; country; cry; curse; danger; dark; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; death; debauch; deep; delirium; demon; desire; desolation; desperate; destruction; devils; die; door; doubt; drink; drinking; drop; drunkard; drunkenness; duty; early; earth; effort; enemy; energy; escape; evening; existence; experience; eyes; face; fairview; fall; falmouth; father; fear; feeling; feet; fell; fire; following; form; friends; glass; god; good; grave; great; habit; half; hall; hand; happiness; head; health; heart; heaven; hell; help; hold; home; hope; horrible; horrid; horrors; hot; hound; hour; house; human; idea; indianapolis; influence; insane; instant; joy; jug; kind; kindness; knowledge; land; language; large; law; lecture; lecturing; left; liberty; lie; life; like; lips; liquor; little; living; long; longer; look; lost; love; luther; madness; man; matter; means; memory; men; mental; mercy; miles; mind; miserable; misery; moment; monday; money; months; morning; mother; natural; nature; nerves; nervous; new; night; number; object; old; open; order; pain; past; people; person; physical; place; pleasure; poison; possible; power; practice; prayer; present; raleigh; reader; reason; red; remorse; rest; return; ride; rise; road; room; ruin; rum; rushville; saloon; saw; school; self; shadow; shame; sick; slavery; sleep; small; sober; sobriety; society; sorrow; soul; spirit; spree; state; step; stimulants; street; strength; struggle; subject; suffering; sure; system; taste; temperance; terrible; thing; thirst; thought; time; tongue; torments; touch; town; tremens; true; truth; turn; vain; victim; voices; walk; way; weeks; whisky; wild; wish; women; words; work; world; worse; wretched; years; young
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2. 318
   • author: London, Jack
   • title: John Barleycorn
   • date: None
   • words: 66088
   • flesch: 83
   • summary: As I pondered this, I recollected that several times other men, in couples, had entered the Last Chance, and first one, then the other, had treated to drinks. Or else I must go back to my free library books and read of the deeds of other men and do no deeds of my own save slave for ten cents an hour at a machine in a cannery.
   • keywords: accessible; account; acquaintance; acquainted; adventure; affair; afraid; afternoon; air; alcohol; alcoholic; american; arms; average; axel; bad; barkeeper; barleycorn; bay; bed; beer; beginning; benicia; best; better; big; bill; bit; black; blow; board; boat; bob; body; books; bottles; boy; boys; brain; brave; bright; brother; cabin; candy; cannery; captain; car; care; career; case; cents; century; certain; chance; chapter; charmian; chemistry; chesty; child; children; city; clam; clear; close; clothes; coal; cocktail; cold; company; comradeship; condition; consciousness; constitution; corner; cost; country; couple; course; crew; cruise; cut; dancing; dare; dark; daughter; day; days; dazzle; dead; death; deck; deep; delicious; desire; different; dinner; doctor; dollars; doors; dozen; dream; drink; drinker; drinking; dry; early; editors; effect; end; estuary; evening; existence; experience; eyes; face; fact; family; far; father; fear; feet; fellows; fever; find; fine; fire; food; fortune; francisco; frank; free; french; friend; future; game; genial; girls; glass; glasses; glorious; glow; good; great; greek; guests; habit; half; hand; handed; happy; hard; harpooner; head; healthy; heart; heavy; heinhold; high; home; horses; hours; house; human; hurt; idler; imagination; intellectual; interest; irish; iron; islands; italian; japanese; job; joe; john; john barleycorn; johnny; kick; kitchen; knowledge; known; labour; lad; laugh; laundry; left; legs; lie; life; like; lips; liquor; little; live; living; logic; long; longer; look; lost; louis; love; lying; machine; mad; maggots; making; man; manhood; matter; memory; men; miles; mind; moment; money; months; moon; morality; morning; mother; names; near; need; nelson; new; night; non; normal; o'clock; oakland; occasion; old; ones; open; order; oyster; page; pail; partner; passing; past; path; pay; people; period; peter; physical; pirates; place; play; point; poison; politicians; poor; power; pretty; pride; proud; purple; quarter; queen; ranch; rare; reading; real; reason; red; reindeer; rest; result; return; river; road; romance; room; round; run; sad; sailing; sailor; sake; saloon; san; sand; sang; save; school; schooner; scotch; scotty; scratch; sea; second; secret; sense; seventeen; ship; short; shoulders; sickness; single; situation; skiff; sleep; sloop; small; sober; social; soul; space; spending; spider; spirit; splendid; state; steam; stomach; store; strange; street; strength; strong; stuff; stupid; success; sun; sunday; superintendent; supper; system; table; talk; taste; tell; telling; terrible; things; thought; throat; tide; time; toil; town; trade; trees; trick; trouble; true; truth; tumbler; turn; university; ups; valley; victor; violent; vision; voices; vote; voyage; walk; warm; watch; water; way; ways; weary; week; wharf; whisky; white; wide; wild; wind; wine; wise; women; wonderful; words; work; working; world; worst; worth; writing; years; young; youth
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3. 35866
   • author: Titus, Harold
   • title: "I Conquered"
   • date: None
   • words: 69071
   • flesch: 90
   • summary: It was man to beast, and somewhere down yonder through the generations a dead racial memory came back and Young VB, girded for the conflict, ached to have his forest foe in reach, to have the fight run high, to have his chance to dare and do in fleshly struggle! Though his meetings with other men were few and scattered, VB was coming to be liked.
   • keywords: afraid; afternoon; air; alive; animal; answer; arms; automobile; avery; away; backward; bad; band; bar; bars; bearing; beast; bed; belt; better; big; bit; black; blankets; blood; blow; blue; bob; body; boot; bore; bottle; boy; break; breath; bridle; broke; brush; buildings; bunch; buyer; cabin; candle; captain; car; cards; chance; chapter; cheek; clear; close; cold; colorado; colt; comfort; coming; conscious; cool; corner; corral; country; cry; danny; dark; darkness; daughter; day; days; deep; depths; desire; determination; dick; distance; dollar; door; doorway; dozen; drawing; drink; driving; dust; ears; easy; effort; end; excitement; eyes; face; fact; faith; far; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; fence; fighting; figure; fine; fingers; fire; flame; flat; floor; fool; foot; force; free; fresh; friend; gail; game; gate; gaze; gesture; girl; git; glad; glass; going; good; gray; great; green; ground; gulch; gun; hair; half; hand; hard; hat; hate; head; heart; heavy; held; help; high; hills; hind; hold; home; hoofs; hope; horse; hour; human; hurt; idea; instant; jed; julio; kelly; kind; knees; knowledge; late; laugh; left; legs; lenox; life; like; line; lips; little; little man; long; longer; look; love; low; man; mares; mark; matson; matter; meal; mean; mebby; men; mexican; mighty; miles; mind; minutes; moment; money; months; moonlight; morning; mountains; mouth; movement; muscles; music; muttered; near; necessary; neck; need; nerves; nervous; new; nose; nostrils; nothin'; old; old man; old vb; open; outside; past; people; place; point; pony; power; question; quick; rage; ranch; ranger; reach; ready; real; realization; reason; rest; rhues; ride; riding; right; rise; river; road; room; rope; rough; running; saddle; saloon; sand; self; sense; set; sharp; shirt; shooting; shot; shoulder; silence; smile; soft; somethin'; sort; soul; sound; speed; spirit; spite; spread; spurs; stallion; standing; stars; step; stop; straight; strained; strange; strength; stretched; stride; strong; stronger; stuff; sudden; sun; sure; swinging; table; talk; teeth; thing; thinking; thirst; thorpe; thought; throat; time; tone; trifle; trot; turn; turning; understanding; use; voice; walk; walking; wall; warm; watch; water; weak; weight; whisky; white; wild; window; woman; words; work; world; worth; wrong; york; young; young vb
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4. 41139
   • author: Thorne, Guy
   • title: The Drunkard
   • date: None
   • words: 124351
   • flesch: 86
   • summary: He had known men, friends of his own, go down, down, down, through drink. Our local celebrity, Medley continued, Mr. Gilbert Lothian, the poet.
   • keywords: absolute; action; admiral; affected; afraid; afternoon; air; alcohol; alcoholism; amari; amberley; america; angry; answer; anxious; appeal; arm; arms; artist; attention; attitude; author; aware; bad; bar; beautiful; beauty; bed; bedroom; beer; beginning; believe; bell; best; big; bird; bishop; bitter; black; blanche; blood; blue; body; book; bore; bottle; bowl; box; boy; brain; breakfast; bright; brighton; brilliant; broken; brother; brown; building; business; cab; calling; calm; candle; capable; care; carpet; case; celebrated; cell; centre; certain; chair; chamber; champagne; change; chapter; charming; cheeks; child; children; christian; church; cigarette; clear; clergyman; clever; closed; closing; clothes; club; coat; cold; colour; coloured; come; comfort; comfortable; common; company; complete; confidences; confidential; conscious; consciousness; considerable; content; continued; control; conversation; cook; cool; corner; country; couple; course; cross; cunning; cupboard; cupid; curious; cut; daly; dance; dark; darling; daughter; dawn; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; decent; deep; definite; delicate; delightful; desire; dicker; dickson; different; difficult; dine; dining; dinner; disease; disgust; doctor; dog; door; doubt; dozen; drawing; dreadful; dream; dressed; dressing; drink; drinking; drive; drunkard; drunken; dull; duty; eager; early; easy; edward; effect; ego; electric; england; english; entire; envy; ethel; evening; evil; excited; excitement; experience; expression; extraordinary; eyes; face; fact; faint; fair; fall; false; familiar; famous; fantastic; far; fashion; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; felt; figure; fine; fingers; fire; firm; flame; flat; floor; flowers; flushed; fool; footsteps; form; free; fresh; friend; friendship; frightened; garden; gas; gate; general; generous; genius; gentleman; genuine; george; gilbert; gilbert lothian; gillie; girl; glad; glance; glass; glow; god; gold; good; good man; grace; great; greater; green; grey; guard; gun; habit; hackney; half; hall; hancock; hand; happy; hard; harrison; hat; hate; head; health; heart; heaven; heavy; help; helzephron; herbert; hidden; high; hint; hold; holy; home; hope; horrible; horror; host; hot; hotel; hour; house; housemaid; huge; human; humour; hung; hurried; husband; idea; important; impulse; inebriate; inebriety; influence; ingworth; instance; instant; instinct; intellect; interest; interesting; intimate; italian; james; jesus; john; joseph; joy; julia; keen; kensington; keys; kind; kindly; kitchen; knife; know; knowing; knowledge; lady; lamp; landlord; large; late; laugh; lay; leant; leather; leave; left; length; letter; library; life; lights; like; line; lips; literary; literature; little; little man; live; living; london; long; longer; longing; look; looking; lord; lost; lothian; loud; lounge; love; lovely; low; lunch; lying; magic; making; man; manner; mantel; marked; married; marshes; mary; mary lothian; master; mean; medical; medley; meeting; memory; mental; mere; milk; mind; minor; minutes; miss; mistress; modern; moment; momentary; money; months; moon; morning; morrow; mortland; morton; morton sims; motor; moultrie; movement; moving; mrs; murderer; muriel; music; natural; nature; near; nearer; necessary; need; nerves; nervous; new; nice; night; noble; noise; norfolk; normal; north; note; novelist; number; o'clock; o'donnell; office; old; ones; open; order; ordered; ordinary; outside; oxford; page; pain; pale; paper; party; passage; passing; passion; past; patient; people; perfect; period; person; personality; phoebe; photograph; physical; piano; pictures; pity; place; play; pleasant; pleased; pleasure; pocket; podley; poems; poet; point; pointed; poor; popular; position; possible; post; pounds; power; prayer; present; pretty; pride; priest; prince; prison; private; progress; psychology; public; pure; purple; putting; question; quick; quiet; rare; rate; reading; ready; real; reason; rector; red; relief; religious; remembered; rich; ring; rita; ritual; road; roof; room; rose; round; royal; run; sad; sake; save; saw; scene; school; science; scientific; seat; second; secret; self; sense; servants; set; shadow; shame; sharp; shillings; shooting; shot; sick; sigh; sign; silence; silent; silly; silver; simple; sims; sincere; single; sir; sister; sitting; sky; sleep; sleeping; slight; slightest; slim; small; smile; smoking; sober; society; soda; soft; solicitor; sorry; sort; soul; space; speaking; special; spirit; splendid; spoke; square; standing; state; stately; statement; station; stay; steady; steps; stone; story; strange; street; strong; study; subtle; success; sudden; suit; summer; sun; sunlight; supreme; surface; surgit; surprise; suspicion; sweet; sympathetic; table; talk; talking; tall; taste; temperament; temperance; terrible; thank; theatre; thick; thing; thought; throat; till; time; tiny; tired; toftrees; torture; touch; town; tray; trembling; trouble; true; trust; truth; tumpany; turn; type; unable; understanding; upper; usual; value; view; village; vision; voice; waiting; walk; wallace; walls; want; warm; watch; water; way; ways; weeks; welcome; west; whiskey; white; wicked; wide; wife; wild; william; window; wine; winter; wise; wish; wog; woman; wonderful; wood; wordingham; words; work; working; world; wrong; yard; years; young; young man; younger; youth
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5. 45525
   • author: Farjeon, B. L. (Benjamin Leopold)
   • title: The Betrayal of John Fordham
   • date: None
   • words: 99573
   • flesch: 86
   • summary: Other men were before me; every inch of ground north and south was marked off for miles, and a thousand miners were at work. Hundreds of other men on the goldfields have missed fortune in the same manner by a hair's breadth.
   • keywords: account; address; affair; agent; air; annette; answer; anxious; apartment; appearance; arms; articles; assumed; attempt; attention; australia; aware; bad; barbara; barlow; beat; beautiful; bedroom; best; better; bit; blood; body; book; bottle; boy; brandy; breast; breath; bright; brother; business; bye; cameron; cards; care; case; certain; chance; chapter; character; child; children; circumstances; city; clear; clever; closed; clothes; cold; coming; common; company; conclusion; confession; confirmed; correct; country; couple; course; court; crime; cruel; cunning; danger; dark; day; days; dead; deal; dear; death; delightful; departure; desire; despair; determined; difficulty; dinner; discovery; doctor; door; doubt; dozen; drink; duty; easy; ellen; end; england; english; evening; events; evidence; evil; eyes; face; fact; faith; false; fatal; father; fear; features; feeling; fellow; fire; fletcher; floor; flowers; following; fool; fordham; fortune; free; friend; frightful; furniture; future; game; gentleman; ghost; glad; glass; god; gold; good; goodness; grave; great; green; ground; guilt; guv'nor; half; hand; happiness; happy; hard; head; heart; heaven; hell; help; hold; home; honor; hope; horrible; hotel; hour; house; human; idea; ill; incidents; information; informed; innocence; innocent; interest; jack; john; john fordham; journey; judge; keys; kind; knife; knowledge; lady; large; law; leave; left; length; letters; lie; life; like; likely; lips; liquor; little; liverpool; living; london; long; longer; look; louis; lourbet; love; luck; madame; man; manner; marriage; married; matter; maxwell; means; memory; mind; minutes; miss; mistaken; moment; money; monsieur; months; morgan; morning; mother; mouth; mrs; murder; murderer; mystery; nature; near; necessary; need; new; news; newspaper; night; notice; o'clock; office; old; open; opinion; order; papers; paris; particular; passage; past; pay; people; perfect; person; place; plan; play; pleasure; pocket; point; police; poor; position; possession; possible; pounds; power; prepared; presence; present; private; promise; proof; public; purpose; question; quiet; ready; real; reason; related; reply; respect; result; return; road; room; rose; run; safe; sake; satisfaction; satisfied; saying; scar; scene; search; second; secret; sed; seeing; self; sense; servants; set; shame; shop; short; shoulder; silence; sitting; small; smile; snow; solicitor; son; sorry; soul; sound; spirit; stairs; standing; state; station; stepmother; stories; story; strange; street; strength; strong; struggle; subject; sudden; suffering; sufficient; sure; surprise; swanage; sweet; table; talk; task; thank; things; thinking; thought; time; tired; tone; train; trouble; true; truth; turn; virtue; visit; voice; want; watch; water; way; week; wheeler; white; wife; window; wine; wish; wished; witness; woman; word; work; worse; wos; wot; wrong; years; yer; yesterday; young
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6. 59724
   • author: Ludlow, James M. (James Meeker)
   • title: The Baritone's Parish; or, "All Things to All Men"
   • date: None
   • words: 8734
   • flesch: 88
   • summary: I want you to let me rest for a while on your confidence, your good wishes, Mr. Vox; and to let me drop in once in a while, just to tell you that I am all right yet. I want to know that Mr. Vox. Bring him around to dine with us Wednesday night.
   • keywords: arms; baritone; believe; bell; big; bit; boy; brady; brisk; business; caleb; cheese; church; d.d; day; doctor; dog; downs; face; fellow; friend; god; good; great; half; harbor; hard; head; heart; hic; house; hypocrite; illustrated; life; little; look; lounge; man; master; men; moment; morning; mrs; music; new; night; note; old; parish; people; phil; place; rev; room; rye; sang; silver; singer; singing; sir; song; story; street; study; sunday; sweezy; talk; tenor; things; thought; time; voice; vox; way; wife; woman; work; worse
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7. 60671
   • author: Smith, George H. (George Henry)
   • title: The Last Days of L.A.
   • date: None
   • words: 7708
   • flesch: 94
   • summary: A girl in a spangled evening dress, a puffing little man in Bermuda shorts, a woman carrying two children, a man with a golf bag over his shoulder and two men in gray flannel suits followed by a woman in a sack dress that keeps blowing up over her face as she runs. Do you prefer to read about sixteen-year old girls found in love nests with older men?
   • keywords: amen; anna; baby; bar; big; body; bomb; bottle; button; church; cities; day; demons; dream; dress; drink; earth; elinda; feet; floor; friends; god; good; gray; hand; head; hell; help; ian; jimmy; jones; legs; like; little; look; lord; man; miles; neck; new; night; o'malley; old; people; power; room; screams; seat; soul; space; stop; sun; sure; thing; time; wall; way; woman; world
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