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id: 32633
author: Venable, Lyn
title: Time Enough at Last
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summary:
  There was no one to say what was to be done about the Eastside Bank & Trust except Henry Bemis, and Henry wasn't worried about the bank, there was something he wanted to do. Numbly, Henry realized that the rest of Mr. Carsville was under that block of marble.


id: 35535
author: Carroll, Lewis
title: Feeding the Mind
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sentence: 170
flesch: 80
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summary:
  It generally took me about a _week_ to read one of his letters! This is a very much greater exertion of mind than the mere passive taking in the contents of our Author.


id: 12914
author: Powys, John Cowper
title: One Hundred Best Books With Commentary and an Essay on Books and Reading
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sentence: 1007
flesch: 65
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summary:
  The following pages contain an alphabetical list by author of the One Hundred Best Books, also the titles of other books recommended in the text by Mr. Powys. G. ARNOLD SHAW, PUBLISHER GRAND CENTRAL TERMINAL, NEW YORK INDEX WITH PRICES OF RECOMMENDED EDITIONS OF JOHN COWPER POWYS' LIST OF ONE HUNDRED BEST BOOKS And Other Books Mentioned In the Text Binding and price Author Title Leather Cloth Artzibasheff ........


id: 7167
title: The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII
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words: 21250
sentence: 1698
flesch: 88
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summary:
  JAMES THOMSON, b. II S. 1700 I. Rule Britannia, 12:208-209 II. Ja. 1867 I. John Henry at the Races, 9-Pt. II:107-113 II.


id: 13852
author: Bennett, Arnold
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sentence: 1399
flesch: 72
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title:
  Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature

summary:
  If a classic is a classic because it gives _pleasure_ to succeeding generations of the people who are most keenly interested in literature, and if Lamb frequently strikes you as dull, then evidently there is something wrong. The right things are the right things solely because the passionate few _like_ reading them.


id: 16736
author: Mabie, Hamilton Wright
title: Books and Culture
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sentence: 1020
flesch: 53
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summary:
  There is a general agreement among men that experience is the most effective and successful of teachers; that for many men no other form of education is possible; and that those who enjoy the fullest educational opportunities miss the deeper processes of training if they fail of that wide contact with the happenings of life which we call experience. In the mirror of the imagination not only the world of to-day but the entire movement of human life moves before the eye as the throngs of living men move on the streets.


id: 15432
author: De la Mare, Walter
title: Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
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words: 35540
sentence: 1997
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness. There was little light but of the stars in the sky; nothing stirring.


id: 13435
author: Carlyle, Thomas
title: On the Choice of Books
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sentence: 1439
flesch: 68
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summary:
  Neither do his distresses, nor did they at any time, arise from wastefulness, or the like, on his own part (he is a man of humble wishes, and can live with dignity on little); but from crosses of what is called Fortune, from injustice of other men, from inexperience of his own, and a guileless trustfulness of nature, the thing and things that have made him unsuccessful make him in reality _more_ loveable, and plead for him in the minds of the candid. But it turned out good men.


id: 35113
author: Fitch, George Hamlin
title: Comfort Found in Good Old Books
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sentence: 1688
flesch: 69
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summary:
  Other great books could be added to this list, such as _Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography_, _Boccaccio's Tales_, the _Analects of Confucius_ and _ London_, Printed for _Nath.


id: 44133
author: Williams, Adene
title: The Girl Warriors: A Book for Girls
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words: 45047
sentence: 1929
flesch: 78
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summary:
  How queer that the same piece of advice, in one form or another, has been given to us ever since we were little girls, and that we have just begun to realize what it all means! said Fannie. As a usual thing, such occurrences would have made them laugh, but they were far enough from being giggling nuisances on this occasion, and when they turned the corner and separated, it would not have been easy to find two muddier or crosser little girls, while both, I fear, had forgotten all about the giants they were intending to fight.


id: 5317
author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
title: Through the Magic Door
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words: 47615
sentence: 2133
flesch: 75
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summary:
  Many men could draw with more or less success Norman England, or mediaeval France, but to reconstruct a whole dead civilization in so plausible a way, with such dignity and such minuteness of detail, is, I should think, a most wonderful tour de force. Many men of the highest scientific eminence have begun in prosaic lines of life.


id: 32172
author: Wright, Henrietta Christian
title: Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860
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words: 45456
sentence: 1618
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Uncle Tom's Cabin_ within a few years, after which Mrs. Stowe turned her attention to the material that lay closer at hand, and began the publication of a series of New England life. It was a little world in which still lingered all the quaintness and simplicity of early New England life, and Lowell, imbibing these influences unconsciously in childhood, was able afterward to reproduce their flavor in his literary work and thus preserve them from oblivion.


id: 6884
author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
title: Sleeping Fires: a Novel
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words: 54016
sentence: 3640
flesch: 85
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summary:
  Langdon and Madeleine Masters. Even the children in the swarming squalid streets looked like little old men and women; they fought in the gutters for scraps of refuse, or stood staring sullenly before them, the cry in their emaciated bodies dulled with the poisons of malnutrition; or making quick passes at the pocket of a thief.


id: 19157
author: Arnold, Gertrude Weld
title: A Mother's List of Books for Children
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words: 48316
sentence: 4285
flesch: 80
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summary:
  2.00 The Editor trusts that this book may be a guide into romance and fairy-land to many children.... 1.50 Admirable selections, chosen partly with view to reading aloud, a large proportion not being found in other children's (p. 86) anthologies.


id: 12244
author: Birrell, Augustine
title: In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
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sentence: 2512
flesch: 70
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summary:
  In the case of _existing books_, there was to be but one term--viz., twenty-one years, from August 10, 1710. Great men have arisen who have grappled with these huge problems.


id: 38873
author: Crothers, Samuel McChord
title: The Gentle Reader
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words: 62574
sentence: 3305
flesch: 74
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summary:
  In like manner he believes in interesting things that great men must have done which unfortunately were not taken down by any one at the time. The Gentle Reader is interested not only in what great men actually were, but in the way they appeared to those who loved or hated them.


id: 37795
author: Parsons, Frank
title: The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature
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sentence: 3539
flesch: 79
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summary:
  | +----------------------------------------------------------------+ TABLE I. contains a list of authors whose books, on principle and authority, have the strongest claims on the attention of the average reader of English. +-------------------------------------+-----+----------+---------------+ | |


id: 5957
author: Shedlock, Marie L.
title: The Art of the Story-Teller
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sentence: 3241
flesch: 78
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summary:
  As an exception to this kind of mixture, I should quote The Honey Bee, and Other Stories, translated from the Danish of Evald by C. G. Moore Smith. There is something of the same idea in the Adventures of Telemachus, written by Fenelon for his royal pupil, the young Duke of Burgundy, but whereas Calthrop trusts to the results of indirect teaching by means of dramatic stories, Fenelon, on the contrary, makes use of the somewhat heavy, didactic method, so that one would think the attention of the young prince must have wandered at times; and I imagine Telemachus was in the same condition when he was addressed at such length by Mentor, who, being Minerva, though in disguise, should occasionally have displayed that sense of humor which must always temper true wisdom.


id: 17857
author: Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina
title: Forgotten Books of the American Nursery A History of the Development of the American Story-Book
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words: 62435
sentence: 2581
flesch: 65
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summary:
  Hitherto little children had been perforce content with the few illustrations the adult books offered. The first, A LITTLE BOOK for children wherein are set down several directions for little children: and several remarkable stories both ancient and modern of little children, divers whereof are lately deceased, was a reprint from an English book of the same title, and therefore has not in this chronicle the interest of the second book.


id: 16579
author: Quiller-Couch, Arthur
title: On The Art of Reading
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flesch: 68
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summary:
  And among Colleges rivalry is not altogether unknown; and dons, if unlike other men in outward aspect, sometimes resemble them in frailty; and in short I am afraid we shall have to stick to the old system for a while longer. A man who drives at practice must use the tools other men have made, so he use them with due acknowledgment; and this acknowledgment I pay by referring you to Book II of Lord Latymer's The Poet's Charter,' and to the analysis of Job with which Professor Moulton introduces his Literary Study of the Bible.' II


id: 18104
author: Kelman, John
title: Among Famous Books
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sentence: 3167
flesch: 70
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summary:
  On the one hand, he was in contact with such men as Jowett, Nettleship, and Thomas Hill Green: on the other hand, with Swinburne, Burne-Jones, and the pre-Raphaelites. Such men are apt to interpret this dictum as a kind of charter which enables a man to say anything foolish, or rude, or bad that may occur to him, and earn praise for it instead of blame.


id: 48800
author: Ashton, John
title: Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction
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words: 93026
sentence: 3639
flesch: 74
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summary:
  Said Joseph sternly, Tell me not those lies, For by the life of Pharaoh ye are spies. The butler in three days restor'd shall be, } The baker should be hang'd upon a tree, } But when this comes to pass remember me, } Said he to the Butler, for here I am thrown, And charg'd with crimes that are to me unknown,


id: 13430
author: Bostwick, Arthur E. (Arthur Elmore)
title: A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects
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sentence: 3892
flesch: 63
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summary:
  Do the readers of library books in New York shun the public-press, or do they pay scant heed to what they read therein? Another somewhat noteworthy fact is that of the 449 persons who sought the library by advice of some one, only 89 were sent by teachers. Even in the more common cases where formal training is absolutely necessary, access to other books than text-books is an aid to selection both qualitative and quantitative.


id: 11483
author: Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson
title: The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson)
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sentence: 4771
flesch: 75
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summary:
  But with little _boys_ And the hot dry air, that you breathe when you rush to the fire, is the praise that one gets from one's young, happy, rosy, I may even say _florid_ friends!


id: 26312
author: Lee, Gerald Stanley
title: The Lost Art of Reading
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sentence: 4510
flesch: 75
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summary:
  There is a certain sense in which it is true that every boy, at least at the point where he is especially alive, is a kind of great man in miniature--has the same experience, that is, in growing. The main difficulty one comes to, in being infinite, is that there is not time, but inasmuch as great men or semi-infinite men have all had to contend with this same difficulty quite as much as the rest of us, it would seem that in getting as many of the infinite facts, and having as many infinite feelings about the facts, as they do, great men must employ some principle of economy or selection, that common, that is, artificial men, are apt to overlook.


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