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Henry IV, Part 2
Henry IV, Part 2

by William Shakespeare

IT is never easy to come second.

1600 480 ed.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

by Omar Khayyam

OMAR KHAYYAM spent most of his life in Nishapur, and part of it probably in Merv.

1859 149 ed.
Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House

by George Bernard Shaw, George Shaw

HEARTBREAK HOUSE is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface.

1919 100 ed.
Mademoiselle Fifi
Mademoiselle Fifi

by Guy de Maupassant

The Prussian Commander, Major Graf von Farlsberg, was finishing the reading of his mail, comfortably seated in a large t...

1882 162 ed.
Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle

by Washington Irving

THE following Tale was found among the papers of the tale Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, who was ...

1850 61 ed.
The American
The American

by Henry James, Peter Collister

On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at ...

1877 126 ed.
Their Wedding Journey
Their Wedding Journey

by William Dean Howells

THEY first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he fo...

1872 118 ed.
The story of the other wise man
The story of the other wise man

by Henry van Dyke, Ruth Sergel

In the days when Augustus Caesar was master of many kings and Herod reigned in Jerusalem, there lived in the city of Ecb...

1895 135 ed.
Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte
Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte

by C. W. Ceram

En el año 1738, María Amalia Cristina, la hija de Augusto III de Sajonia, abandonando la corte de Dresde, se desposó con...

1949 112 ed.
Pelham
Pelham

by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

I AM an only child.

1828 108 ed.
The Gilded Age
The Gilded Age

by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner

June 18-. Squire Hawkins sat upon the pyramid of large blocks, called the "stile," in front of his house, contemplating ...

1873 99 ed.
Histoire naturelle
Histoire naturelle

by Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc De Buffon

1749 174 ed.
The Guns of August
The Guns of August

by Barbara Tuchman

SO GORGEOUS was the spectacle on the May morning of 1910 when nine kings rode in the funeral of Edward VII of England th...

1962 52 ed.
The histories
The histories

by Polybius, Evelyn S. Shuckburgh

1542 103 ed.
Pandora
Pandora

by Anne Rice

Not twenty minutes has passed since you left me here in the cafe, since I said No to your request, that I would never wr...

1998 42 ed.