Found 5,248 results for "Magic -- History."
Five Children and It
by Edith Nesbit
The house was three miles from the station, but, before the dusty hired fly had rattled along for five minutes, the chil...
The Phoenix and the Carpet
by Edith Nesbit
It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...
Tao te Ching
by 老子
The Tao Te Ching is an ancient Chinese text consisting of spiritual teachings, folk wisdom, political instruction, cosmo...
Prince Caspian
by C. S. Lewis
ONCE THERE WERE FOUR CHILDREN whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, and it has been told in another book call...
Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Mr. UTTERSON the lawyer was a man of a rugged countenance that was never lighted by a smile; cold, scanty and embarrasse...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
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 ...
The Railway Children
by Edith Nesbit
The beginning of things - They were not railway children at the beginning...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...
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 Crucible
by Arthur Miller
In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...
