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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
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A House of Pomegranates
by Oscar Wilde
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- 01Front matter~1 min
- 02The Young King — part 1~25 min
- 03The Young King — part 2~9 min
- 04THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA — part 1~25 min
- 05THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA — part 2~22 min
- 06THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL — part 1~25 min
- 07THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL — part 2~24 min
- 08THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL — part 3~25 min
- 09THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL — part 4~15 min
- 10THE STAR-CHILD — part 1~25 min
- 11THE STAR-CHILD — part 2~16 min
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IT was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground, according to the ceremonious usage of the day, and had retired to the Great Hall of the Palace, to receive a few last lessons from the Professor of Etiquette; there being some of them who had still quite natural manners, which in a courtier is, I need hardly say, a very grave offence. The lad—for he was only a lad, being but sixteen years of age—was not sorry at their departure, and had flung himself back with a deep sigh of relief on the soft cushions of his embroidered couch, lying there, wild-eyed and open-mouthed, like a brown woodland Faun, or some young animal of the forest newly snared by the hunters.
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