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La Poetica
La Poetica

by Aristotle

THE science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their p...

1479 498 ed.
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

IT WAS a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be...

1826 862 ed.
Great Expectations
Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

MY FATHER'S FAMILY NAME being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...

1861 1489 ed.
A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...

1800 2059 ed.
Medea
Medea

by Euripides

For Greeks of the fifth century BCE there is very little biographical information that can be relied upon.

1703 157 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

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

1846 2886 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.
Die Geburt der Tragödie
Die Geburt der Tragödie

by Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever may lie at the bottom of this questionable book: it must have been a question of the greatest interest and appe...

1872 61 ed.
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus

by Christopher Marlowe

Not marching in the fields of Trasimene

1662 89 ed.
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.

1598 751 ed.
Coriolanus
Coriolanus

by William Shakespeare

This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.

1734 780 ed.
Burmese Days
Burmese Days

by George Orwell

U PO KYIN, Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda.

1934 125 ed.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

by Charles Dickens

There once lived in a sequestered part of the country of Devonshire, one Mr Godfrey Nickleby, a worthy gentleman, who ta...

1800 392 ed.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey

by Thornton Wilder

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the g...

1927 109 ed.
The Loved One
The Loved One

by Evelyn Waugh

ALL DAY THE HEAT HAL been barely supportable but at evening a breeze arose in the West, blowing from the heart of the se...

1948 103 ed.
Poems
Poems

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

My pensive SARA! thy soft cheek reclined

1796 232 ed.
Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound

by Aeschylus

Now have we journeyed to a spot of earth

1559 112 ed.
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

IN the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), where Ben Johnson is making fun of the popular taste of his day, one of the...

1594 225 ed.
Poems
Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;

1800 233 ed.