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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...
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...
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.
On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."
The Art of War
by 孙武, Stephen F. Kaufman
ACCORDING TO AN OLD STORY, a lord of ancient China once asked his physician, a member of a family of healers, which of t...
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
by Thomas Hardy
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon street.
History of the Peloponnesian War
by Thucydides
1. Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians; he began at the m...
Diary
by Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys, the author of the Diary here presented to the reader was descended from the family of Pepys originally sea...
The golden bough
by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster
I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?
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 ...
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
by Jules Verne
MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.
Summa Theologica
by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930
THE FIRST POINT: 1. Prophecy is apparently not a form of knowledge, for we read of Elisha, when he was dead his body pro...
Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human c...