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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

1667 396 ed.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

1478 722 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

1807 372 ed.
A Doll's House
A Doll's House

by Henrik Ibsen

A warm, well-furnished room, reflecting more taste than expense.

1889 255 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

OVER the Western sea hither from Niphon come,

1855 755 ed.
Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis

by Franz Kafka

I COULD HEAR THE CARTS driving past the garden fence, sometimes I even caught sight of them through the gently shifting ...

1915 954 ed.
Aeneis
Aeneis

by Publius Vergilius Maro

Arms I sing-and a man,

1710 456 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

1726 1810 ed.
Ἰλιάς
Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

1505 1084 ed.
The Happy Prince and other tales
The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.

1888 508 ed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

1707 747 ed.
De rerum natura
De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

1486 537 ed.
Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)
Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)

by Sophocles

The background is the front wall of a building, with a double door in the center.

1715 188 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
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...

1889 544 ed.
Hiroshima
Hiroshima

by John Hersey

Exactamente a las ocho y quince minutos de la mañana, hora japonesa, el 6 de agosto de 1945, en el momento en que la bom...

1702 104 ed.
La Divina Commedia
La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,

1472 1339 ed.