Vulgar words in The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 (Page 1)
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No sooner has he gone than the regent commences to make love to his brother's wife.
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VI "_The Golden Ass_ of Apuleius is, so to say, a beginning of modern literature.
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Henley, of _The Golden Ass of Apuleius_, published by David Nutt, London, 1893.
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The germ-idea of Kipling's _Finest Story in the World_ is to be found in Poe's _Tale of the Ragged Mountains_; Apuleius's germ-plot, of the man who was changed by enchantment into an ass, and could only recover his human shape by eating rose-leaves, was taken either from Lucian or from Lucius of Patrae.
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I had to brain him wi' a rack-pin; there was nae doin' wi' him.
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"Just you go out there and cuss, and see."
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"Damn his fat head!" he broke out.
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"I shall never finish that ballade," he thought to himself; and then, with another shudder at the recollection, "Oh, damn his fat head!" he repeated fervently, and spat upon the snow.
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"I knew him--damn him!
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INDEX Aesop beast-fables Apuleius _The Golden Ass_ likeness to Kipling Aristotle _Secretum Secretorum_ Barrett, Charles Raymond _Short-Story Writings_ Beast-fables Boccaccio _Teseide_ _Decameron_ Brown, Dr. John (1810-1882) _Rab and His Friends_ Bunyan, John Cable _Strange True Stories of Louisiana_ Cervantes _Don Quixote_ Chaucer Coleridge _Ancient Mariner_ _Deeds of the Romans, The_ Defoe, Daniel (1661-1731) _Short-Story Essay_ _The Apparition of Mrs. Veal_ Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) _The Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn_ Drelincourt _Book on Death_ Fenton, Geoffrey _Tragical Discourses_ Fuller, Thomas Garnett, Richard _The Poison Maid_ _Gesta Romanorum, The_ Hardy, Thomas (1840) _The Three Strangers_ Harris, Chandler _Uncle Remus_ Harte, Bret (1839-1902) _The Outcasts of Poker Flat_ Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1807-1864) _Dr.