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The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
by Olaudah Equiano
I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the on...
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
Diary
by Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
We were studying when the headmaster came in, followed by a new boy, not yet wearing a school uniform, and a monitor car...
Anne of Avonlea
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
The Innocents Abroad
by Mark Twain
For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in Am...
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
by Charles Dickens
There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...