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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

1811 2090 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.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce, James Joyce

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was comi...

1818 765 ed.
Tao te Ching
Tao te Ching

by 老子

A way become Way isn't the perennial Way.

1842 648 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.
Pedro Páramo
Pedro Páramo

by Juan Rulfo

I came to Comala because I had been told that my father, a man named Pedro Paramo, lived there.

1955 134 ed.
Eva Luna
Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende

Me llamo Eva, que quiere decir vida, segun un libro que mi madre consulto para escoger mi nombre.

1987 107 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 ed.
Plays (36)
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...

1623 256 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.
Ab urbe condita
Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

1481 558 ed.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Emma Orczy

A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but ...

1900 591 ed.
Matilda
Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

1988 149 ed.
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley

In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...

1818 2185 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.
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.
Book of common prayer
Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

1537 545 ed.
The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby

by Charles Kingsley

Once upon a time there was a little chimney-sweep, and his name was Tom.

1863 213 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.
Lolita
Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins.

1777 228 ed.