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Bernard Maclaverty - Creative minds at Birmingham

From the very first stories written in the early 1970s, Bernard has been a master of style and technique. Deploying that unflashy art which conceals art which I associate also with John McGATTEN,...
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    The Necklace by Shmoop

    The Necklace, a la Shmoop: Diamonds Aren’t a Girl’s Best Friend. Meet Mathilde . . . . . .a woman who just can’t seem to be happy about anything. In fact, she spends most of her time. . . . . ....
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      The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant - Minute book report

      This is a story about a plain woman who lives in France who thinks she deserves better in life. She wants to be beautiful, powerful, and respected by everyone (Don't we all?). But she is sad...
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        Chapter 40 - A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court by mark twain - Three years later

        PART 8: CHAPTER XL THREE YEARS LATER When I broke the back of knight-errantry that time, I no longer felt obliged to work in secret. So, the very next day I exposed my hidden schools, my mines, and my...
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        Chapter 34 - A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court - The yankee and the king sold as slaves

        PART 7: CHAPTER XXXIV THE YANKEE AND THE KING SOLD AS SLAVES Well, what had I better do? Nothing in a hurry, sure. I must get up a diversion; anything to employ me while I could think, and while these...
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        Chapter 39 - A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court - The yankee's fight with the knights

        PART 8: CHAPTER XXXIX THE YANKEE'S FIGHT WITH THE KNIGHTS Home again, at Camelot. A morning or two later I found the paper, damp from the press, by my plate at the breakfast table. I turned to...
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        Chapter 33 - A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court - Sixth century political economy

        PART 7: CHAPTER XXXIII SIXTH CENTURY POLITICAL ECONOMY However, I made a dead set at him, and before the first third of the dinner was reached, I had him happy again. It was easy to do--in a country...
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        Chapter 30 - A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court - The tragedy of the manor - House

        PART 6: CHAPTER XXX THE TRAGEDY OF THE MANOR-HOUSE At midnight all was over, and we sat in the presence of four corpses. We covered them with such rags as we could find, and started away, fastening...
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        Chapter 29 - A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court by mark twain - The small - Pox hut

        PART 6: CHAPTER XXIX THE SMALLPOX HUT When we arrived at that hut at mid- afternoon, we saw no signs of life about it. The field near by had been denuded of its crop some time before, and had a...
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        Chapter 20 - A connecticut yankee in king arthur's court by mark twain - The ogre's castle

        PART 4: CHAPTER XX THE OGRE'S CASTLE Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple--man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some...
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