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The Crucible
by Arthur Miller
In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
The blaze of sun wrung pops of sweat from the old man's brow, yet he cupped his hands around the glass of hot sweet tea ...
Legenda aurea
by Jacobus de Voragine, William Caxton
The Lord's advent is celebrated for four weeks to signify that his coming is fourfold: he came to us in the flesh, he co...
An essay on man
by Alexander Pope
HAVING proposed to write some pieces on human life and manners, such as (to use my lord Bacon's expression) came home to...
De civitate Dei
by Augustine of Hippo
One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretat...
Ubik
by Philip K. Dick
At three-thirty A.M. on the night of June 5, 1992, the top telepath in the Sol System fell off the map in the offices of...
Cyropaedia
by Xenophon
Xenophon's Education of Cyrus offers its own introduction, one that helps turn the reader's attention to the core issues...
Actes and monuments
by John Foxe
In Matthew 16:18, it is recorded that Jesus told His disciples, "I will build My church, and the gates of hell [Hades] s...
Moriæ Encomium
by Desiderius Erasmus
HOW SLIGHTLY SOEVER I am esteemed in the common vogue of the world (for I well know how disingenuously Folly is decried,...
The light princess
by George MacDonald
Once upon a time, so long ago that I have quite forgotten the date, there lived a king and queen who had no children.
