
LITERARY
GENIUS

In
an effort to expose my readers to the brilliance of oft-forgotten
or little known writers, I launched this column as a part
of the inaugural issue. It is my hope that some day I will
take submissions from amateur hopefuls, should they show the
promise of the authors here.
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Author
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Book,
Chapter/Part (Full Text/Excerpt) |
Link |
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| Anonymous |
The Magic Thread (Full Text) |
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| Andersen,
Hans Christian |
The
Little Match Girl (Full Text) |
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| Barrie,
J.M. |
Peter
Pan, Chapter 3 – Come Away! Come Away! (Excerpt) |
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| Bryan,
William Jennings |
Cross
of Gold (speech, Excerpts) |
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| Chesterton,
G.K. |
Orthodoxy,
VI. The Paradoxes of Christianity |
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| Child,
Lydia Maria |
Flowers
for Children, vol. 2, Over The River And Through The Woods
(poem, Full Text) |
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| Chopin,
Frédéric |
Étude
Op. 10 No. 3 in Eb (musical composition, Full Text) |
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| Cicero |
Laelius
(An Essay On Friendship) (Excerpt) |
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| Coleridge,
Samuel Taylor |
The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I-IV (Full Text) |
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| Dumas,
Alexandre |
Le
Comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo), XXI.
The Island of Tiboulen (Excerpt) |
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| Ende,
Michael |
Die
Unendliche Geshichte (The Neverending Story), XII. The Old
Man of Wandering Mountain (Excerpt) |
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| Faulkner,
William |
I
Decline To Accept The End of Man (speech, Full Text) |
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| Hope, Anthony |
The Prisoner of Zenda, V. The Adventures of an Understudy (Excerpt) |
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| Irving,
Washington |
The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Excerpt) |
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Jefferson,
Thomas
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The
Declaration of Independence (Full Text) |
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| Machiavelli,
Niccolò |
Il
Principe (The Prince), XVII: Concerning Cruelty and Clemency…
(Excerpt) |
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| Paz,
Octavio |
Peidra
de Sol (Sunstone) (poem, Full Text) |
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| Poe, Edgar Allen |
The Raven (poem, Full Text) |
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| Pope
John Paul II |
Urbi
et Orbi (speech, Full Text) |
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| Saint
Matthew |
Holy
Bible, Matthew 1:18-25 |
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| Shakespeare |
Hamlet,
III.i.64-98 ("To be or not to be" soliloquy,
Full Text) |
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| Tolkien,
J.R.R. |
The
Return of the King, IV. The Field of Cormallen (Excerpt) |
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| Tolstoy,
Leo |
Anna
Karenina, XXII (Excerpt) |
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| Wharton,
Edith |
The
Age of Innocence, XIX (Excerpt) |
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| Wilde,
Oscar |
The
Importance of Being Earnest, First Act (Excerpt)
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