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The Beautiful and Damned
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...
The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...
Orthodoxy
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the large window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talk...
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-loo...
The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right throbs and the wrong.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce, James Joyce
Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...
Gitanjali (song offerings)
by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.