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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

1726 1810 ed.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

1933 119 ed.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...

1776 222 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

1678 683 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Num lugar da Mancha, de cujo nome não quero lembrar-me, não há muito tempo que vivia um fidalgo dos de lança em cabide, ...

1600 1594 ed.
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

by Olaudah Equiano

I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the on...

1789 298 ed.
Lives
Lives

by Plutarch

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes...

1564 323 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From the fairest creatures we desire increase,

1609 646 ed.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

1844 1104 ed.
The complete poetical works
The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

1786 293 ed.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

A sketch of St. Francis of Assisi in modern English may be written in one of three ways.

1923 547 ed.
Paula
Paula

by Isabel Allende

LISTEN, PAULA.

1994 59 ed.
Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]
Tales from Shakespeare [20 tales]

by Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb

There was a certain island in the sea, the only inhabitants of which were an old man, whose name was Prospero, and his d...

1800 255 ed.
Milton's Poems
Milton's Poems

by John Milton

Paradise Lost. The Verse of "Paradise Lost." "The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime," as that of Homer in Gre...

1605 292 ed.
Satyricon
Satyricon

by Petronius

[Encolpius is in full flow:] 'This, surely, is the same band of Furies goading our teachers of rhetoric when they cry: "...

1575 309 ed.