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Ἰλιάς
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 ...

1505 1084 ed.
Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

1901 934 ed.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim

by Joseph Conrad

HE WAS an inch, perhaps two, under six feet, powerfully built, and he advanced straight at you with a slight stoop of th...

1900 344 ed.
The water-babies: a fairy tale for a land-baby
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.

1863 213 ed.
A Vindication of Rights of Woman
A Vindication of Rights of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

IN the present state of society it appears necessary to go back to first principles in search of the most simple truths,...

1792 309 ed.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells

NO ONE would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and clos...

457 ed.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

1600 818 ed.
Burmese Days
Burmese Days

by George Orwell

U PO KYIN, Subdivisional Magistrate of Kyauktada, in Upper Burma, was sitting in his veranda.

1934 125 ed.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner

by George Eliot, John O'Connor

IN THE DAYS when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread l...

1800 628 ed.
Orientalism
Orientalism

by Edward W. Said

"On June 13, 1910, Arthur James Balfour lectured the House of Commons on ""the problems with which we have to deal in Eg...

1978 33 ed.
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the English nations
The principall navigations, voiages, and discoveries of the ...

by Richard Hakluyt, Jack Beeching

It hath almost euer bene the custome of nations, in searching out the infancie and first beginnings of their estate, to ...

1589 225 ed.
The  eyes of Asia
The eyes of Asia

by Rudyard Kipling

HAVING experienced five months of this war, I became infected with fever and a strong coldness of the stomach [rupture].

1916 73 ed.
Scott Specialty Album
Scott Specialty Album

by Scott Publishing

1996 2 ed.
From sea to sea; letters of travel
From sea to sea; letters of travel

by Rudyard Kipling

AFTER seven years it pleased Necessity, whom we all serve, to turn to me and say: Now you need do Nothing Whatever.

1889 103 ed.