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Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...

1831 265 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...

1884 584 ed.
Madame Bovary
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...

1856 1557 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Ἰλιάς
Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

1505 1084 ed.
Agnes Grey
Agnes Grey

by Anne Brontë

ALL TRUE HISTORIES CONTAIN instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in...

1847 616 ed.
The Farthest Shore
The Farthest Shore

by Ursula K. Le Guin

IN THE COURT OF THE FOUNTAIN THE SUN of March shone through young leaves of ash and elm, and water leapt and fell throug...

1972 65 ed.
Nightmare Abbey
Nightmare Abbey

by Thomas Love Peacock

NIGHTMARE ABBEY, a venerable family mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on ...

1818 140 ed.
The advancement of learning
The advancement of learning

by Francis Bacon

There were under the law, excellent King, both daily sacrifices and freewill offerings; the one proceeding upon ordinary...

1605 65 ed.
Diamonds are Forever
Diamonds are Forever

by Ian Fleming

With its two fighting claws held forward like a wrestler's arms the big pandinus scorpion emerged with a dry rustle from...

1956 104 ed.
Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas

by Sheridan Le Fanu

It was winter-that is, about the second week in November-and great gusts were rattling at the windows, and wailing and t...

1864 214 ed.
The Poetical Works of John Dryden
The Poetical Works of John Dryden

by John Dryden, John Dryden

THIS illustrious Poet was son of Erasmus Dryden of Tichmersh in Northamptonshire, third son of Sir Erasmus Dryden of Can...

1777 177 ed.
Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer

by John Dos Passos

THE nurse, holding the basket at arm's length as if it were a bedpan, opened the door to a big dry hot room with greenis...

1925 77 ed.
Hyperion
Hyperion

by Dan Simmons

The Consul awoke with the peculiar headache, dry throat, and sense of having forgotten a thousand dreams which only peri...

1989 26 ed.