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Man and Superman
by George Bernard Shaw
Roebuck Ramsden is in his study, opening the morning' letters.
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.
Πολιτικά (Politiká)
by Aristotle
EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always...
Ab urbe condita
by Titus Livius
At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.
James and the Giant Peach
by Roald Dahl
My father's troops wait on their horses just outside our front door.
Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours
by Jules Verne
MR. PHILEAS FOGG LIVED, IN 1872, AT NO. 7, SAVILLE Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814.
A Child's Garden of Verses
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.
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...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
by Benjamin Franklin
"It seems I am too much of an American," said Franklin sadly to an English friend.
The Well at the World's End
by William Morris, William Morris
Long ago there was a little land, over which ruled a regulus or kinglet, who was called King Peter, though his kingdom w...
Maximes
by François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stuart D. Warner
I AM of medium height, well set-up and proportioned, my complexion dark but fairly uniform; my forehead is lofty and rea...