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by Arthur Conan Doyle
"I AM afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go," said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
by Mary Shelley
In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...
by Πλάτων
The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...
by Niccolò Machiavelli
ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...
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...
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...
by Charles Dickens
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
by William Shakespeare
1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
by Eoin Colfer
HO Chi Minh City in the summer. Sweltering by anyone's standards. Needless to say, Artemis Fowl would not have been will...
by Henry James
STRETHER'S FIRST question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was appare...
by John Locke, Ian Shapiro
1. That Adam had not, either by natural right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such authority over h...
by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington
What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...
by Robert Burns
MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!