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Mere Christianity
Mere Christianity

by C. S. Lewis

Every one has heard people quarreling.

1943 109 ed.
Summa Theologica
Summa Theologica

by Thomas Aquinas, Kennedy, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1930

DEINDE CONSIDERANDUM EST de præsidentia angelorum super creaturam corporalem.

1467 277 ed.
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665

by Daniel Defoe

IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...

1722 318 ed.
The Tempest
The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

1611 804 ed.
Imitation of Christ
Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

He that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, (1) saith the Lord.

1568 394 ed.
A Little Princess
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...

1905 305 ed.
Meditations
Meditations

by Marcus Aurelius

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceived of doing it.

1626 642 ed.
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.

1847 1170 ed.
Cujo
Cujo

by Stephen King

ONCE UPON A TIME, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine.

1981 81 ed.
Summer
Summer

by Edith Wharton

A GIRL came out of lawyer Royall's house, at the end of the one street of North Dormer, and stood on the doorstep.

1917 85 ed.
Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at Norwich, A.D. 1373
Revelations of divine love, recorded by Julian, anchoress at...

by Julian of Norwich, Warrack, Grace Harriet, 1855-1932

Here is a vision shown by the goodness of God to a devout woman, and her name is Julian, who is a recluse at Norwich and...

1901 45 ed.
A Break with Charity
A Break with Charity

by Ann Rinaldi

THE DAY I MET Sarah Bibber behind the cluster of trees outside the parsonage was not a good day.

1992 12 ed.