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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...
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...
by James Joyce
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...
by Charles Dickens
AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...
by Victor Hugo
Il y a aujourd'hui trois cent quarante-huit ans six mois et dix-neuf jours que les Parisiens s'éveillèrent au bruit de t...
by John Dos Passos
THE nurse, holding the basket at arm's length as if it were a bedpan, opened the door to a big dry hot room with greenis...
by Numa Fustel de Coulanges, Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
DOWN to the latest times in the history of Greece and Rome we find the common people clinging to thoughts and usages whi...
by Peter Charleton
Lies in a Mirror Chapter 1 The Dynamic of Evil There is a lie behind every crime. In order to cheat people of ...
by Fiona MacDonald, Gerald Wood
Visitors to Benin City are always impressed by the royal palace.