The jungle is neutral

by Frederick Spencer Chapman, CHAPMAN (F.S).

To foster resistance movements in the Far East brings one up against many problems not encountered in Europe.

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...

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

Two courtiers exchange compliments, speaking in an elegant, formal prose.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

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...

Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER had a small estate in Nottinghamshire.

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

by Benjamin Franklin

MY WRITING.

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 foreig...

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...

Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

[1.1] The subject of this essay is not the so-called liberty of the will - so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doct...

Le Comte de Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

LE 24 FEVRIER 1815, la vigie de Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde signale l'arrivee du trois-mats le Pharaon, venant de Smyrne, Tri...

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.

A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MARLEY WAS DEAD, to begin with.

King Richard II

by William Shakespeare

Richard. Old John of Gaunt, time-honored Lancaster, Hast thou according to thy oath and band Brought hither Henry Herefo...

Christmas Books (Battle of Life / Chimes / Christmas Carol /...

by Charles Dickens

MARLEY was dead, to begin with.

The Man Without a Country

by Edward Everett Hale, Florence Maria Miller

Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield

by Oliver Goldsmith

I WAS ever of opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who conti...

Prentice Hall Literature - Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes ...

by Kate Kinsella, Kevin Feldman