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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...
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 foreign...
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...
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, and...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Ancient African town
by Fiona MacDonald, Gerald Wood
Visitors to Benin City are always impressed by the royal palace.
