Found 86 results for "Divers in fiction"
Utopia
by Thomas More
UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye
by Charles Perrault
ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no ch...
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Confessions
by Augustine of Hippo
Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.
Nova Atlantis
by Francis Bacon
WE sailed from Peru (where we had continued by the space of one whole year), for China and Japan, by the South Sea, taki...
A House-Boat on the Styx
by John Kendrick Bangs, Peter Newell
CHARON, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and an he p...
The Mediterranean Caper
by Clive Cussler
Major Dirk Pitt adjusted the headset on his thick black hair and slowly turned the channel crank on the radio, trying to...
Les avantures de Gil Blas de Santillane
by Alain René Le Sage, Etiemble
THE Count of Polan, after spending half the night in thanking us and assuring us that we might rely on his gratitude, se...
