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Addison, Joseph - (19)
Aiken, Conrad Potter - (100/2)
Akenside, Mark - (73)
Akhmatova, Anna - (32)
Alcott, Louisa May - (75/25)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey - (36/17)
Alger, Horatio - (66/52)
Alighieri, Dante - (100/1)
Allingham, William - (48)
Amichai, Yehuda - (44)
Ammons, A. R. - (31)
Amott, Lennox - (16)
Anderson, Elizabeth - (2)
Archer, Jean C. - (2)
Arnold, Matthew - (151/3)
Balestier, Wolcott - (0/21)
Barham, Richard Harris - (23)
Barnes, William - (29)
Bates, Clara Doty - (32)
Bates, Katharine Lee - (18)
Baudelaire, Charles - (236/2)
Behn, Aphra - (14)
Belloc, Hilaire - (61/3)
Benet, Stephen Vincent - (33/1)
Bennett, Charles Henry - (2/2)
Bierce, Ambrose - (16)
Blake, William - (140)
Boake, Barcroft - (36/3)
Boldrewood, Rolf - (0/1)
Bowles, William Lisle - (143)
Bradstreet, Anne - (40)
Brecht, Bertolt - (32)
Brereton, John Le Gay - (67)
Bronte, Anne - (69/2)
Bronte, Charlotte - (25/4)
Bronte, Emily - (52/1)
Bronte, Patrick - (12)
Brooke, Rupert - (97/1)
Brown, Thomas Edward - (24)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett - (115)
Browning, Robert - (214/6)
Bryant, William Cullen - (132/3)
Burns, Robert - (503/1)
Burrows, Joseph - (1)
Butler, Ellis Parker - (74/9)
Byron, George Gordon - (189/12)
Campbell, John - (48)
Campbell, Thomas - (34)
Campion, Thomas - (13)
Carew, Thomas - (37)
Carleton, Will - (22)
Carman, Bliss (William) - (122)
Carmichael, Jennings (Grace) - (2)
Carr, John (Sir) - (112/1)
Carroll, Lewis - (74/3)
Carryl, Guy Wetmore - (41)
Cassels, Walter R. - (49)
Castleman, Virginia Carter - (1)
Cawein, Madison Julius - (960)
Chant, Joseph Horatio - (86)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith - (69/34)
Churchill, Charles - (24)
Clare, John - (384)
Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop - (1/18)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (132/2)
Clough, Arthur Hugh - (18)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - (53)
Collier, Ada Langworthy - (6)
Collins, William - (11)
Colman, George - (8)
Coolidge, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) - (68)
Cowper, William - (308)
Crane, Walter - (150/1)
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson - (13/1)
Cuthbertson, James Lister - (10)
Daley, Victor James - (93)
Darwin, Erasmus - (8)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (4)
Davis, Thomas Osborne - (35)
Derham, Enid - (8)
Dickinson, Emily - (448)
Dix, William Chatterton - (1)
Dobson, Henry Austin - (101/2)
Doneghy, George W. - (64)
Dowson, Ernest Christopher - (76/5)
Doyle, Arthur Conan - (60/103)
Drake, Joseph Rodman - (19)
Drayton, Michael - (228)
Drummond, William Henry - (72)
Dryden, John - (126)
Duff, J. L. - (1)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence - (422)
Dutt, Toru - (20)
Dyson, Edward - (95/98)
Earls, Michael - (45)
Edgar, Marriott - (35)
Edwards, George Wharton - (26)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo - (226)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty - (51)
Fairless, Michael - (14)
Field, Eugene - (324/67)
Fire-Fly, Fanny - (1)
Flecker, James Elroy - (43)
Foott, Mary Hannay - (30)
Forrest, M. - (2)
Freeman, John - (197)
Frost, Robert Lee - (168)
Garrison, Theodosia - (61)
Gent, Thomas - (118)
Gilbert, William Schwenck - (172/1)
Gladden, Washington - (3)
Glass, Nancy Rebecca Campbell - (35)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von - (347)
Goldsmith, Oliver - (40)
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold - (38/1)
Gordon, Adam Lindsay - (71)
Gordon, Hanford Lennox - (75)
Gower, John - (9)
Greenaway, Kate - (40)
Gregory, Lady (Isabella Augusta) - (36)
Gurney, Eliza Paul Kirkbride - (43)
H. H. C. C. - (1)
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne - (12)
Hardy, Thomas - (663/43)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins - (46/2)
Harte, (Francis) Bret - (120/62)
Hartley, John - (299/60)
Hay, John - (76/3)
Hayes, John Milton - (7)
Hayley, William - (36/1)
Hebblethwaite, James - (4)
Heney, Thomas William - (4)
Henley, William Ernest - (154/5)
Hensley (Almon), Sophia Margaret - (51)
Herford, Oliver - (129)
Herrick, Robert - (1467)
Hewlett, Maurice - (35/14)
Hoatson, A. - (2)
Hoffmann, Heinrich - (21)
Holley, Marietta - (68/2)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell - (331/6)
Hood, Thomas - (177)
Hooper, Lucy Hamilton - (0/1)
Hope, James Barron - (59)
Hope, Laurence (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson) - (132)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley - (71)
Horsford, Mary Gardiner - (32)
Housman, Alfred Edward - (105)
Howard, Hattie - (87)
Hugo, Victor-Marie - (63)
Hunt, James Henry Leigh - (24)
Ide, Abijah M. - (3)
Irving, Washington - (52/27)
Jennings, Elizabeth - (11)
Jonson, Ben - (92)
Joyce, James - (51/19)
Keats, John - (147)
Kendall, Henry - (215)
Kenna, Francis - (1)
Kipling, Rudyard - (641/528)
Landor, Walter Savage - (103)
Lawson, Henry - (475/164)
Leland, Charles G. - (53)
Lowell, Robert - (16)
Masefield, John - (40)
McCrae, John - (29)
Miller, Joaquin - (19)
Milton, John - (131/1)
Orwell, George - (8/64)
Osborne, Louis Shreve - (1)
Paterson, Banjo - (227/58)
Poe, Edgar Allan - (84/100)
Pope, Alexander - (82)
Prior, Matthew - (189)
Qabbani, Nizar - (38)
Scott, (Sir) Walter - (157/7)
Shakespeare, William - (159/24)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles - (464/7)
Teasdale, Sara - (324)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord - (327)
Thomson, James - (10)
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis) - (46)
Wells, H. G. - (0/57)
Whitman, Walt - (338)
Whittier, John Greenleaf - (483)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker - (12/1)
Wilmot, John - (39)
Wordsworth, William - (969)
Yeats, William Butler - (384)

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Story Title	Period	Lines	Reads
1: Death Of Edgar A. Poe		3232	1498
2: Riverina Letters (1891)		5264	1288
3: Adaminaby Letters (1887) -		2246	1099
4: Keep The Aspidistra Flying	1936	94499	1091
5: A Double Buggy At Lahey’s Creek - II. Joe Wilson’s Luck		1875	1079
6: A Chronicle Of Wolfert’s Roost - (Wolfert’s Roost And Miscellanies)		8356	1069
7: The Truth About Pyecraft		4022	1057
8: Droving Letters (1888-89)		6159	1056
9: A Double Buggy At Lahey’s Creek - III. The Ghost Of Mary’s Sacrifice		1577	1055
10: When The Sun Went Down		1020	1050
11: A Double Buggy At Lahey’s Creek - IV. The Buggy Comes Home		2764	1047
12: A Droving Yarn		1404	1033
13: The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, Vol I - Life: Letters: Prose Remains	1869	130359	1015
14: The Drover’s Wife		3362	1008
15: The Exciseman		2818	1003
16: A Friend’s Friend		2228	1003
17: A Germ-Destroyer		1801	1002
18: Animal Farm		31003	1001
19: The System Of Doctor Tarr And Professor Fether	1850	7103	992
20: Wanted By The Police		5824	983
21: A Gentleman Sharper And Steelman Sharper		2830	978
22: A Clergyman’s Daughter	1935	102167	977
23: A Hero In Dingo-Scrubs		4702	972
24: An Outback Marriage - A Story Of Australian Life - Chapter 1 - In The Club		72713	965
25: The Poems and Prose Remains of Arthur Hugh Clough, Vol II - Poems	1869	567	961
26: The Union Buries Its Dead		1810	960
27: The Shearer’s Colt - Part II - Chapter XX - Red Fred’s Marriage	1936	2665	955
28: The Geological Spieler		3102	954
29: A Prank That Reacted		3274	947
30: The Star		4512	938
31: Two Dogs And A Fence		716	935
32: Mr. Skelmersdale In Fairyland		5622	932
33: A Story of the Days to Come	1899	33530	929
34: Burmese Days	1934	104593	928
35: Triangles Of Life - I. The Reason		4793	927
36: The Man Who Could Work Miracles		6997	927
37: A Story of the Stone Age	1899	23202	923
38: The Purloined Letter	1845	7331	920
39: The Magic Shop		4264	919
40: Filmer		6892	919
41: The Golden Graveyard		5609	916
42: The Crystal Egg		7045	916
43: A Question Of Propriety		2362	913
44: A Deal in Ostriches	1895	1952	912
45: The Ghosts Of Many Christmases		3774	910
46: The Hairy Man		4042	910
47: The Valley Of Spiders		4263	910
48: A Moth – Genus Novo	1895	4097	905
49: For the Term of His Natural Life	1874	191553	902
50: Four Stories High	1877	40173	897
51: The Haunted Author		1767	889
52: Gentleman George’s Bride		12172	880
53: Holiday Peak		6374	873
54: Old Tales of a Young Country	1871	86975	872
55: The Romance of Lively Creek		5637	868
56: Australian Tales	1896	84948	866
57: The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents	1895	46092	852
58: The Stolen Bacillus	1895	2623	850
59: The Treasure in the Forest	1895	3114	847
60: The Flowering of the Strange Orchid	1895	3123	840
61: A Bank Fraud		2591	834
62: In the Avu Observatory	1895	2773	832
63: The Triumphs of a Taxidermist	1895	1525	829
64: The Temptation of Harringay	1895	2110	824
65: Through a Window	1895	3249	818
66: Long Odds	1869	142714	778
67: A Little Prep.	1899	8394	776
68: A Matter Of Fact		5361	767
69: Real Life In London - Volume I		174363	743
70: The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter VII	1892	2123	741
71: The Duke of Gandia	1908	3870	720
72: The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter VIII	1892	2691	719
73: Atalanta in Calydon	1885	20129	708
74: Locrine - A Tragedy		18714	707
75: Atalanta in Calydon		19649	705
76: Merope - A Tragedy - Preface	1858	16732	704
77: Real Life In London - Volume II		175593	701
78: A Child Of Nature		4615	699
79: Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards	1899	9243	697
80: Chastelard, A Tragedy	1866	27763	696
81: The Age of Shakespeare	1908	64806	695
82: A Lonely Ride		2299	692
83: A Moonlight Fable		1761	688
84: Merope - A Tragedy - Historical Introduction		1516	681
85: Merope - A Tragedy - Preface		10156	670
86: A Midsummer Night’s Dream	1595	17931	663
87: A Naval Mutiny		6358	650
88: The Tempest	1610	18718	648
89: Romeo and Juliet	1594	27562	643
90: The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter X	1892	2694	639
91: Areopagitica - A Speech For The Liberty Of Unlicensed Printing To The Parliament Of England		18049	637
92: Robbery Under Arms		216889	618
93: The Winter's Tale	1611	27035	613
94: A Sketch Of Mateship		625	611
95: Othello, the Moore of Venice	1603	29379	606
96: A Golden Shanty		4859	604
97: King Lear	1605	29425	600
98: A Long Way To Cork		821	586
99: The Naulahka - A Story Of West And East – Chapter XIII	1892	7649	585
100: A Hot Day At Spats’		2760	583