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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.
The Second World War
The Second World War

by Winston S. Churchill

NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.

1948 203 ed.
Jo's Boys
Jo's Boys

by Louisa May Alcott, Success Oceo

If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,' said Mr...

1886 597 ed.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

1800 480 ed.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

1898 563 ed.
Kidnapped
Kidnapped

by Robert Louis Stevenson

I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...

1886 352 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
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...

1730 213 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.
Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen

THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.

1811 2090 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]

1603 2377 ed.
Macbeth
Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Macbeth was first produced at a time of radical theatrical change in England.

1508 1866 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.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

1800 2406 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.
Emma
Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

1815 2263 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontèˆ

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 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.
Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman

by Arthur Miller

A melody is heard, played upon a flute.

1940 90 ed.
Psycho-cybernetics
Psycho-cybernetics

by Maxwell Maltz

DURING the past decade a revolution has been quietly going on in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and medicine.

1960 78 ed.