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Tom Sawyer, Detective
Tom Sawyer, Detective

by Mark Twain

Well, it was the next spring after me and Tom Sawyer set our old nigger Jim free, the time he was chained up for a runaw...

1897 276 ed.
Candide
Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

1746 1079 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

1726 1810 ed.
King Lear
King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

1608 1614 ed.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows

by Kenneth Grahame

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.

1908 1346 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

1600 1505 ed.
Life on the Mississippi
Life on the Mississippi

by Mark Twain

The Mississippi is well worth reading about.

1883 157 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.

1889 544 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

1843 3198 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.
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Le avventure di Pinocchio

by Carlo Collodi

How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child

1883 431 ed.
Decamerone
Decamerone

by Giovanni Boccaccio

DEAREST ladies, it is fitting that everything done by man should begin with the marvelous and holy name of Him who was t...

1516 700 ed.
Through the Looking-Glass
Through the Looking-Glass

by Lewis Carroll

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had nothing to do with it: - it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

1865 1378 ed.
Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne

HERE IS Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.

1925 187 ed.
American notes
American notes

by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald

I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...

1800 233 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.
La Divina Commedia
La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

1472 1339 ed.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

1600 818 ed.
George's Marvelous Medicine
George's Marvelous Medicine

by Roald Dahl

'I'm going shopping in the village,' George's mother said to George on Saturday morning.

1981 99 ed.