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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities

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...

1800 2059 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

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...

1686 2420 ed.
Ulysses
Ulysses

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...

1914 612 ed.
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...

1822 2209 ed.
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame de Paris

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...

1831 265 ed.
Ὀδύσσεια
Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

THIS IS THE STORY OF A MAN, ONE WHO WAS NEVER AT A loss.

1488 1063 ed.
The city in history
The city in history

by Lewis Mumford

What is the city?

1961 24 ed.
Manhattan Transfer
Manhattan Transfer

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...

1925 77 ed.
La cité antique
La cité antique

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...

1870 69 ed.
Houghton Mifflin Reading Leveled Readers California
Houghton Mifflin Reading Leveled Readers California

by Houghton Mifflin Company Staff

2009 214 ed.
Lies In a Mirror
Lies In a Mirror

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 ...

2006 3 ed.
Ancient African town
Ancient African town

by Fiona MacDonald, Gerald Wood

Visitors to Benin City are always impressed by the royal palace.

1998 5 ed.