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Our Mutual Friend
by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner
IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...
Salomé
by Oscar Wilde
SCENE -A great terrace in the Palace of Herod, set above the banqueting-hall.
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...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes [4 novels, 56 stories]
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon street.
Il Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
THE GLORY of the All-Mover penetrates through the universe and reglows in one part more, and in another less.
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...
Meditations
by Marcus Aurelius
1. From* my grandfather Venus:* the lesson of noble character and even temper.
Through the Looking-Glass
by Lewis Carroll
One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...
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...
Metamorphoses
by Lucius Apuleius, William Adlington
What I should like to do is to weave together different tales in this Milesian mode of story-telling and to stroke your ...
Leonardo
by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster
If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.
