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Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...
The Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...
Appointment with Death
by Agatha Christie
"YOU do see, don't you, that she's go to be killed?"
A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
Except for the Marabar Caves - and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
T WAS the night before Christmas, when all through the house
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray
As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...
Gitanjali (song offerings)
by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...
Daddy-Long-Legs
by Jean Webster
The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day-a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage, and f...
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.
Le avventure di Pinocchio
by Carlo Collodi
How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
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...