Found 129,118 results for "HISTORY / General"
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
THE starting-point of this book was a search for fields of historical study which would be intelligible in themselves wi...
She
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by any body else, these pag...
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this work, we propose to discuss the nature of the poetic art in general, and to treat of its different species in pa...
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
ONCE upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittl...
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
The Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
IN the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip.
Белые ночи
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
C'était une nuit de conte, ami lecteur, une de ces nuits qui ne peuvent guère survenir que dans notre jeunesse.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
