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Othello
Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

1622 807 ed.
Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

King Uther Pendragon, ruler of all Britain, had been at war for many years with the Duke of Tintagil in Cornwall when he...

1557 372 ed.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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...

1600 1505 ed.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...

1880 1988 ed.
Dracula
Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....

1897 736 ed.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...

1734 949 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.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

1200 6084 ed.
King Lear
King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

1608 1614 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 Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

1800 2406 ed.
Richard III
Richard III

by William Shakespeare

Now is the Winter of our Discontent,

1597 759 ed.
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breath short-winded accents of new...

1598 751 ed.
The complete poetical works
The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

1786 293 ed.
Measure for Measure
Measure for Measure

by William Shakespeare

Measure for Measure has been strikingly popular for more than thirty years, both on the stage and in the study, and ther...

1700 317 ed.
Lorna Doone
Lorna Doone

by R. D. Blackmore

IF anybody cares to read a simple tale told simply, I, John Ridd, of the parish of Oare, in the county of Somerset, yeom...

1656 556 ed.
Coriolanus
Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare

This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.

1734 780 ed.
Institutio Christianae religionis
Institutio Christianae religionis

by Jean Calvin

From those matters so far discussed, we clearly see how destitute and devoid of all good things man is, and how he lacks...

1536 120 ed.
Henry IV, Part 2
Henry IV, Part 2

by William Shakespeare

IT is never easy to come second.

1600 480 ed.