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A Study of History
by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell
HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...
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 ...
A Brief History of Time
by Stephen Hawking
A WELL-KNOWN SCIENTIST (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
T WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house
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 anybody else, these page...
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...
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
In one of Hans Christian Andersen's last tales, the search is on for "the most incredible thing."
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.
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.
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
Quae ab condita urbe Roma ad captam eandem Romani sub regibus primum, consulibus deinde ac dictatoribus decemuirisque ac...