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Birds in literature
by Abby P. Churchill
WE see with what we are; and what we see is constantly changing us for better or for worse.
Winnie-the-Pooh
by A. A. Milne
HERE IS Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin.
Cyrano de Bergerac
by Edmond Rostand
We are in Paris in 1640, the era of Dumas's Three Musketeers.
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
[Enter two Sentinels first, Francisco, who paces up and down at his post; then Bernardo, who approaches him.]
Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye
by Charles Perrault
ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...
Notre Dame de Paris
by Victor Hugo
Three hundred and forty-eight years, six months, and nineteen days ago, the good people of Paris awoke to the sound of a...
Faust
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]
The Happy Prince and other tales
by Oscar Wilde
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince.
The Phoenix and the Carpet
by Edith Nesbit
It began with the day when it was almost the Fifth of November, and a doubt arose in some breast - Robert's, I fancy - a...
Ἰλιάς
by Όμηρος
AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...
Ὀδύσσεια
by Όμηρος
TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
Voskresenīe
by Лев Толстой
THOUGH hundreds of thousands had done their very best to disfigure the small piece of land on which they were crowded to...
The Labours of Hercules
by Agatha Christie
"ANYTHING of interest this morning, Miss Lemon?"
It
by Stephen King
The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years-if it ever did end-began, so far as I know or can tell, w...
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
ALL that I have written so far about Doctor Dolittle I heard long after it happened from those who had known him- indeed...
The Birds of America
by John James Audubon
The results of a period of world exploration were consolidated in the late 17th and early 18th centuries when descriptio...