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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes [12 stories]

by Arthur Conan Doyle

I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation ...

1892 1132 ed.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
The Man Who Knew Too Much

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Harold March, the rising reviewer and social critic, was walking vigorously across a great tableland of moors and common...

1922 644 ed.
Little Women
Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

"CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

1848 1888 ed.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

riverrun,past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend if bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back ...

1928 128 ed.
The King in Yellow
The King in Yellow

by Robert W. Chambers

TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted dur...

1895 479 ed.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass

by Walt Whitman

ONES-SELF I sing, a simple separate person,

1855 755 ed.
All's Well That Ends Well
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...

1734 711 ed.
Dracula
Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...

1897 736 ed.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

1811 2090 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 ed.
A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet

by Arthur Conan Doyle

IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...

1887 1447 ed.
The Secret Garden
The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.

1911 1594 ed.
Curtain
Curtain

by Agatha Christie

WHO is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

1975 112 ed.
The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner

by Khaled Hosseini

I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975.

2003 125 ed.
The Taming of the Shrew
The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.

1631 927 ed.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...

1734 949 ed.
Essays
Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

1618 188 ed.
The Happy Prince and other tales
The Happy Prince and other tales

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.

1888 508 ed.
The Moonstone
The Moonstone

by Wilkie Collins

In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...

1800 977 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...

1611 804 ed.