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Just So Stories
Just So Stories

by Rudyard Kipling

IN THE sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes.

1922 245 ed.
Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss / Locket / Ma'ame Pelagie / Pair of Silk Stockings / Reflection / Respectable Woman)
Works (Awakening / Beyond the Bayou / Desiree's Baby / Kiss ...

by Kate Chopin

A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!

1981 198 ed.
The Story of the Amulet
The Story of the Amulet

by Edith Nesbit

There were once four children who spent their summer holidays in a white house, happily situated between a sandpit and a...

1905 578 ed.
The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy

by Will Durant

IF YOU look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out i...

1926 141 ed.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
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...

1920 224 ed.
An autobiography
An autobiography

by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

The Gandhis belong to the Bania caste and seem to have been originally grocers. But for three generations, from my grand...

1927 140 ed.
Demian
Demian

by Hermann Hesse

I shall begin my story with an experience I had when I was ten and attended our small town's Latin school.

1919 176 ed.
A Little Princess
A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...

1905 305 ed.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breakfast at Tiffany's

by Truman Capote

I am always drawn back to places where I have lived, the houses and their neighborhoods.

1956 113 ed.
Rashomon and other stories
Rashomon and other stories

by Ryƫnosuke Akutagawa

YES, SIR. Certainly, it was I who found the body.

1952 96 ed.
Im Westen nichts Neues
Im Westen nichts Neues

by Erich Maria Remarque

We are at rest five miles behind the front.

1928 224 ed.
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice

by John Ruskin

I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...

1851 99 ed.
The Happy Prince and other tales
The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.

1888 508 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.
Heidi
Heidi

by Spyri, Johanna

IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.

1885 180 ed.
Eva Luna
Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende

Me llamo Eva, que quiere decir vida, segun un libro que mi madre consulto para escoger mi nombre.

1987 107 ed.
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
The Tale of Peter Rabbit

by Beatrix Potter

ONCE upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were-Flopsy, Mopsy, Cotton-tail, and Peter.

1920 102 ed.