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Xi you ji
Xi you ji

by Wu Cheng'en, Eleanor Hazard

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, someone called Three Kingdoms, Outlaws of the Marsh, Journey to the West and Jin Ping Me...

1900 132 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.
John Donne Poetry
John Donne Poetry

by John Donne, John Booty

Away thou fondling motley humourist,

1633 105 ed.
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

ABODES OF HORROR have frequently been described, and castles, filled with spectres and chimeras, conjured up by the magi...

1799 265 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Dracula
Dracula

by Bram Stoker

3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8.35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6....

1897 736 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

1726 1810 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.
Ἰλιάς
Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

1-7 Poem: invocation of the Muse and statement of the poet's theme - Akhilleus' wrath and its disastrous consequences

1505 1084 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.
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.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

1889 544 ed.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garde...

1890 3012 ed.
Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra

by William Shakespeare

In the judgement of G. Wilson Knight, Anthony and Cleopatra was 'probably the subtlest and greatest play in Shakespeare'...

1734 949 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I WAS born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreig...

1686 2420 ed.
Hamlet
Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

1603 2377 ed.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.

1813 4038 ed.
King Lear
King Lear

by William Shakespeare

KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.

1608 1614 ed.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

1656 1226 ed.