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This Skye terrier dog was owned by John Gray, an unemployed gardener who became an Edinburgh policeman. When Gray died in 1858, he was buried in Greyfriars' Kirkyard.

A Doll’s House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen’s plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required read

One night the famous King Triple-victory, mighty as the king of the gods, found a monk called Patience standing under a fig tree and making a magic circle.

Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen’s masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884.

This American classic is a humorous turn-of-the-century story about a train agent and the definition of a guinea pig.

An early history of the Britons translated from the Latin Historia Brittonum.

Harald took the sword, drew it, or was half drawing it, admiringly from the scabbard, when the English excellency broke into a scornful laugh, "Ha, ha; thou art now the feudatory of my English

Early in the course of the Reformation (1520) Martin Luther penned a trilogy of foundational documents addressing the Church, the Nobility and the Christian life.

The Seventh Man by Max Brand, tells part of the story of the larger-than-life western character, Dan Barry, known as “Whistling Dan,” and his alter-ego companions, Black Bart,

Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to t

The People of the Abyss (1903) is a book by Jack London about life in the East End of London in 1902.

Three men down on their luck in Tahiti agree to ship out on a vessel whose officers have died of smallpox.

Contents: Pt. I. The tryst : in the garden of the Expiatory Chapel ; Madariaga, the centaur ; The Desnoyers family ; The cousin from Berlin ; In which appear the four horsemen -- Pt. II.

The Jimmyjohn Boss; A Kinsman of Red Cloud; Sharon's Choice; Napoleon Shave-Tail; Twenty Minutes for Refreshments; The Promised Land; Hank's Woman; Padre Ignazio.

Owen Wister (1860-1938) was an American writer of western novels. He studied at the Harvard Law School, where he was a classmate of Theodore Roosevelt and graduated in 1888.