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The Devil's Dictionary
by Ambrose Bierce
ABASEMENT, n. A decent and customary mental attitude in the presence of wealth of power.
Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
riverrun,past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend if bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back ...
A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
“We should start back,” Gared urged as the woods began to grow dark around them.
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman
by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin
ABODES OF HORROR have frequently been described, and castles, filled with spectres and chimeras, conjured up by the magi...
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
by Jules Verne
THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...
Flatland
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...
Emma
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...
On the origin of species by means of natural selection
by Charles Darwin
WHEN WE COMPARE the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of th...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
by Mark Twain
'CAMELOT - Camelot,' said I to myself. I don't seem to remember hearing of it before.
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,
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
ONE THING WAS certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
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...
Nightmare Abbey
by Thomas Love Peacock
NIGHTMARE ABBEY, a venerable family mansion, in a highly picturesque state of semi-dilapidation, pleasantly situated on ...