THE 300 SPARTANS: THE PASS AT THERMOPYLAE by CHARLOTTE YONGE

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Episode Summary: "The Lagoon" by Joseph Conrad In this haunting tale of "impulsive betrayal and permanent remorse", a white traveler known only as Tuan journeys through the dense, tropical waterways of the Malay Archipelago. He stops for the night at the isolated jungle clearing ...  Show more

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Stephen Crane wrote this short story one year after his hugely popular "The Red Badge of Courage", which was a story about a young man named Henry Fleming, who experienced the horrors of war for the first time at Chancellorsville during the American Civil War and ran from it. Per ...  Show more

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