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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
MY FATHER'S family name being Pirrip, and my christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing lo...
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 Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.
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...
Roughing It
by Mark Twain
My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory-an office of such majesty that is concentrated in itsel...
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
Rime of the ancient mariner
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
All's Well That Ends Well
by William Shakespeare
Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...
Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Dr. Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars about...
Winter's Tale
by William Shakespeare
Two courtiers exchange compliments, speaking in an elegant, formal prose.
La chartreuse de Parme
by Stendhal
On May 15, 1796, General Bonaparte entered Milan at the head of that young army which had lately crossed the Lodi bridge...