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Haikus from Captivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

From a book categorized as and pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book:

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Now the Indians
gather their forces to go
against Northampton.

One bitter cold day
I could find no room to sit
down before the fire.

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Haikus from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

From a book categorized as and 608 pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book: Download the epub for free here Download the book in raw text for free here I should mention, too, that this limb was no farther subject to my will. Some few inquiries had been made, but these had been readily answered. At length, for the third or fourth time, they descended into the cellar. There are some subjects upon which I take pleasure in being minute. An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss.

Haikus from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

From a book categorized as Fiction / Classics and 72 pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book: The classic tale of the dog named Buck who is abducted from his comfortable home to a life of hard labor in the frozen land of the Yukon. **** This generously-sized edition has been priced and designed for students with special margins for easy note-taking on each page. Download the epub for free here Download the book in raw text for free here At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. Three men with clubs were helping him to scatter them. It did not take long. He had started out preaching it to his sister and brother-in-law. It had long since passed into the stage where blows were required to rouse it. Hans paid out the rope, permitting no slack, while Pete kept it clear of coils. Then, rested, refreshed and strong, he turned his face toward camp and John Thornton.

Haikus from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

From a book categorized as Fiction / Classics and 652 pages follows a description and a number of hidden haikus found in the book: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle is a novel portraying the corruption of the American meat industry in the early part of the twentieth century. The dismal living and working conditions and sense of hopelessness prevalent among the impoverished workers is compared to the corruption of the rich. Upton aimed to make such "wage slavery" issues center-stage in the minds of the American public. Despite already being serialized, it was rejected as a novel five times before being published in 1906, when it quickly became a bestseller. Download the epub for free here Download the book in raw text for free here The company pairs off quickly, and the whole room is soon in motion. So America was a place of which lovers and young people dreamed. They were near the time station window, and people were staring at them. He was only half able to rea

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