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Excerpt: The Reef by Edith Wharton.

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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part One by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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Excerpt: The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper.

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Excerpt: Vanity Fair: Volume Two (Chapters Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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Excerpt: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby (1922 ed.).

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