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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
WHILE the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate o...
Henry IV, Part 1
by William Shakespeare
This edition of Henry IV Part I is part of the Cambridge School Shakespeare series.
The Ambassadors
by Henry James
STRETHER'S FIRST question, when he reached the hotel, was about his friend; yet on his learning that Waymarsh was appare...
Satyricon
by Petronius
IT has been so long since I promised you the story of my adventures, that I have decided to make good my word to-day; an...
Jurgen
by James Branch Cabell
IT is a tale which they narrate in Poictesme, saying: In the old days lived a pawnbroker named Jurgen; but what his wife...
Our Man in Havana
by Graham Greene
'THAT nigger going down the street,'said Dr Hasselbacher standing in the Wonder Bar, 'he reminds me of you, Mr Wormold.'
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
by Edith Nesbit, William Shakespeare
In the register of baptisms of the parish church of Stratford-upon-Avon, a market town in Warwickshire, England, appears...
Measure for Measure
by William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure is one of the best of Shakespeare's plays, though it has not always received the appreciation it des...
Love's Labour's Lost
by William Shakespeare
IN 1598, the year in which the earliest extant text we have of Love's Labour's Lost appeared in print, an emphatically m...
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
by Mark Twain
The scene of this chronicle is the town of Dawson's Landing, on the Missouri side of the Mississippi, half a day's journ...
Вишневый сад
by Антон Павлович Чехов
Early dawn. The old nursery, with several doors, one of them to ANYA's bedroom.
Arms and the Man
by George Bernard Shaw
To the irreverent-and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?-there is something v...
Три сестры
by Антон Павлович Чехов
I knew this book needed an introduction when someone asked me, with a sigh, why make yet another English translation of ...
Coriolanus
by William Shakespeare
This is one of Shakespeare's bleakest comments on human history.