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The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon street.

1893 455 ed.
Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Enter Leonato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger.

1600 401 ed.
Confessions
Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

1482 449 ed.
Medea
Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

1703 157 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
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...

1600 1594 ed.
Du côté de chez Swann
Du côté de chez Swann

by Marcel Proust

Longtemps je me suis couché de bonne heure.

1908 636 ed.
The Age of Fable
The Age of Fable

by Thomas Bulfinch

ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.

1800 299 ed.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.

1791 679 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
La Divina Commedia
La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

1472 1339 ed.
Le Morte d'Arthur
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...

1557 372 ed.
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El túnel
El túnel

by Ernesto Sabato

Bastará decir que soy Juan Pablo Castel, el pintor que mató a María Iribarne; supongo que el proceso está en el recuerdo...

1948 120 ed.
Moralia
Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

1500 211 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
Il Paradiso
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.

1595 291 ed.
Sein und Zeit
Sein und Zeit

by Martin Heidegger

On Time and Being contains Heidegger's lecture on "Time and Being" together with a summary of six seminar sessions on th...

1927 114 ed.
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona
Quo Vadis? Powieść z czasów Nerona

by Henryk Sienkiewicz

IT WAS CLOSE to noon before Petronius came awake, feeling as drained and listless and detached as always.

1895 453 ed.
Le Deuxième Sexe
Le Deuxième Sexe

by Simone de Beauvoir

Woman? Very simple, say the fanciers of simple formulas: she is a womb, an ovary; she is a female-this word is sufficien...

1949 90 ed.
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

My true name is so well known in the records, or registers, at Newgate and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things ...

1722 1114 ed.