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Moralia
Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

1500 211 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Essays
Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

1618 188 ed.
Roughing It
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...

1872 408 ed.
Lives
Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

1564 323 ed.
Trois contes
Trois contes

by Gustave Flaubert

FOR half a century the good ladies of Pont-l'Eveque envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite.

1877 155 ed.
Beowulf
Beowulf

by Seamus Heaney

So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.

2000 7 ed.
Cuore
Cuore

by Edmondo De Amicis

1828 47 ed.