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The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...
Die Traumdeutung
by Sigmund Freud
In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret ...
De la démocratie en Amérique
by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont
AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.
Orthodoxy
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
THE only possible excuse for this book is that it is an answer to a challenge.
Gitanjali (song offerings)
by Rabindranath Tagore, Marie Luise Gothein
Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.
A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mount...
Women in Love
by D. H. Lawrence
Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.
The King in Yellow
by Robert W. Chambers
TOWARD the end of the year 1920 the Government of the United States had practically completed the programme, adopted dur...
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins, William Collins
THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can denture, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame
The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring cleaning his little home.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
Ce Vieux monsieur et cette vieille dame sont les parents de Mr. Bucket.
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
