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The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea
by Kakuzo Okakura
I. The Cup of Humanity
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as ...
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The Book of Nonsense
Book of Nonsense
by Edward Lear
There was an Old Derry down Derry,
Who loved to see little folks merry;
So he made them a Book,
And with laughter they shook,
At the fun of that D ...
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The Blue Flower
The Blue Flower
by Henry van Dyke
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion for something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.
--SHELLEY.
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The Blithedale Romance
The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Table of Contents
I. OLD MOODIE
II. BLITHEDALE
III. A KNOT OF DREAMERS
IV. THE SUPPER-TABLE
V. UNTIL BEDTIME
VI. COVERDA ...
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The Black Tulip(黑郁金香)
The Black Tulip
by Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Chapter 1
A Grateful People
On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always
so lively, so neat, and so trim that one migh ...