Fiction
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James Fenimore Cooper,
The Spy
from Chapter XIII(1821)
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Thomas Love Peacock,
Crotchet Castle
from Chapter XI,
"Correspondence"(1831)
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George Sand,
Mauprat
from Chapter XII(1837)
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Honoré Balzac, from Lost
Illusions
(1837)
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Elizabeth Gaskell,
Mary Barton
from Chapter XVII(1848)
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Charles Dickens,
A Tale of Two Cities
from Book Three: The Track of a Storm.
Chapter I, "In Secret"(1859)
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Victor Hugo,
Les Miserables
from Volume I, Book II, Chapter IX,
"New Wrongs"(1862)
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Victor Hugo,
Les Miserables
from Volume III, Book IV, Chapter I,
"A Group that Nearly Became Historical"(1862)
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Victor Hugo,
Les Miserables
from Volume IV, Book VII, Chapter III,
"Slang that Cries and Slang that Laughs"(1862)
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Victor Hugo,
Les Miserables
from Volume V, Book I, Chapter V,
"The Horizon One Sees from the Barricade's Summit"(1862)
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Anthony Trollope,
Rachel Ray
from Volume II, Chapter XI,
"Cornbury Grange"(1863)