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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

1478 722 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are p...

1884 584 ed.
Villette, a novel
Villette, a novel

by Charlotte Brontë

My godmother lived in a handsome house in the clean and ancient town of Bretton.

1853 519 ed.
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame de Paris

by Victor Hugo

Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of a...

1831 265 ed.
Book of common prayer
Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

1537 545 ed.
The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)
The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown Mystery)

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a sw...

1583 851 ed.
Faust
Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

1800 633 ed.
Xi you ji
Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

Amid the Three Islands Sun Wu-k'ung seeks a cure; With sweet dew Kuan-shih-yin revives a tree.

1900 132 ed.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man

by H. G. Wells

THE stranger came early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...

563 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.
Dubliners
Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

1914 996 ed.
Plays (36)
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...

1623 256 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

1603 2377 ed.
It
It

by Stephen King

The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, w...

1986 95 ed.
The Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead

by E. A. Wallis Budge, David Lorimer

The Recensions of the great body of religious compositions, which were drawn up for the use of dead kings, nobles, pries...

1894 85 ed.
The Thorn Birds
The Thorn Birds

by Colleen McCullough, Colleen McCullough

On December 8th, 1915, Meggie Cleary had her fourth birthday.

1977 79 ed.
The Exorcist
The Exorcist

by William Peter Blatty

The blaze of sun wrung pops of sweat from the old man's brow, yet he cupped his hands around the glass of hot sweet tea ...

1971 77 ed.
Needful Things
Needful Things

by Stephen King

In a small town, the opening of a new store is big news.

1991 67 ed.