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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair

by William Makepeace Thackeray

As the Manager of the Performance sits before the curtain on the boards, and, looks into the Fair, a feeling of profound...

1800 200 ed.
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web

by E. B. White

WHERE'S Papa going with that ax?" said Fern to her mother as they were setting the table for breakfast.

1952 149 ed.
Little Women
Little Women

by Louisa May Alcott

CHRISTMAS won't be Christmas without any pres- " grumbled Jo, lying on the rug.

1848 1888 ed.
Robin Hood
Robin Hood

by Howard Pyle

IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...

1883 724 ed.
A Princess of Mars
A Princess of Mars

by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I AM A very old man; how old I do not know.

1917 206 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a Den, and I laid me down in t...

1678 683 ed.
Utopia
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...

1518 198 ed.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.

1597 985 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 ed.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

Der blondhaarige Junge glitt das letzte Stück Felsen hinab und begann, sich zur Lagune durchzuarbeiten.

1954 191 ed.
Les Trois Mousquetaires
Les Trois Mousquetaires

by Alexandre Dumas, Auguste Maquet

On the first Monday of the month of April, 1625, the market town of Meung, in which the author of Romance of the Rose wa...

1844 1104 ed.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

by J. K. Rowling

À bien des égards, Harry Potter était un garçon des plus singuliers. Tout d’abord, il détestait les vacances d’été, c’ét...

1999 279 ed.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake

by James Joyce

riverrun,past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend if bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back ...

1928 128 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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...

1600 1505 ed.
Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte d'Arthur

by Thomas Malory

King Uther Pendragon, ruler of all Britain, had been at war for many years with the Duke of Tintagil in Cornwall when he...

1557 372 ed.
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Ben Hur
Ben Hur

by Lew Wallace

The Jebel es Zubleh is a mountain fifty miles and more in length, and so narrow that its tracery on the map gives it a l...

1800 201 ed.
Surfacing
Surfacing

by Margaret Atwood

I can't believe I'm on this road again, twisting along past the lake where the white birches are dying, the disease is s...

1972 63 ed.
The Crucible
The Crucible

by Arthur Miller

In 1692 nineteen men and women and two dogs were convicted and hanged for witchcraft in a small village in eastern Massa...

1953 83 ed.
Poems
Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sing, Muse, the son of Maia and of Jove,

1800 233 ed.