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Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
The War of the Worlds
by H. G. Wells
Wells uses first-person narration in The War of the Worlds.
Kinder- und Hausmärchen
by Gebrüder Grimm [Brothers Grimm]
Long ago, in a far away place, there lived a king and his beautiful daughter.
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...
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...
Plays (36)
by William Shakespeare
Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.
The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Autobiography of a Yogi
by Yogananda Paramahansa
THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple...
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Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
by William Shakespeare
THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
All's Well That Ends Well
by William Shakespeare
Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...
