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The Elements of Style
by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.
The game of life and how to play it
by Florence Scovel Shinn
Most people consider life a battle, but it is not a battle, it is a game.
Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...
Much Ado About Nothing
by William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and perf...
The Magician's Nephew
by C. S. Lewis
This is a story about something that happened long ago when your grandfather was a child.
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...
Poetics
by Aristotle
In this treatise we propose to discuss (1) poetry itself; (2) the various forms it can take; (3) the function and potent...
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...
The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.
The House of Seven Gables Readalong
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.
Imitation of Christ
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
