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Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
The Complete Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

by L. Frank Baum

HAVE you heard of the great Forest of Burzee?

1902 560 ed.
The Prophet
The Prophet

by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black

Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...

1900 569 ed.
Συμπόσιον
Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...

1559 351 ed.
Confessions
Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

1482 449 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

1855 755 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

1843 3198 ed.
The Art of War
The Art of War

by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman

ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...

1900 1542 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
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 foreign...

1686 2420 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
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 ...

1678 683 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

1609 646 ed.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways.

1923 547 ed.
Ben Hur
Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...

1800 201 ed.
Φαίδων
Φαίδων

by Πλάτων

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Phaedo, who is the narrator of the dialogue to Echecrates of Phlius.

1713 291 ed.
The complete poetical works
The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

1786 293 ed.
Heretics
Heretics

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

NOTHING more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made ...

1905 551 ed.
Autobiografía Malcolm X
Autobiografía Malcolm X

by Alex Haley, Malcolm X

would move. I am not sure why he made this decision, for he was not a frightened Negro, as most then were, and many stil...

1965 70 ed.
Maus I
Maus I

by Art Spiegelman

I went out to see my Father in Rego Park.

1986 66 ed.
Eat, Pray, Love
Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert

I wish Giovanni would kiss me.

2001 64 ed.