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Emma
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...
Dune
by Frank Herbert
In the week before their departure to Arrakis, when all the final scurrying about had reached a nearly unbearable frenzy...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...
4:50 from Paddington
by Agatha Christie
Mrs. McGillicuddy panted along the platform in the wake of the porter carrying her suitcase.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo
In 1815 Monsieur Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of Digne.
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
As a man thinketh
by James Allen
The aphorism, "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he," not only embraces the whole of a man's being, but is so compreh...
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]
Twelve years a slave
by Solomon Northup
Having been born a freeman, and for more than thirty years enjoyed the blessings of liberty in a free State-and having a...
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...
Der Proceß
by Franz Kafka
SOMEONE must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine mor...
