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Poems

by William Butler Yeats

Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

The Ugly Duckling

by Hans Christian Andersen

It was a beautiful summer day.

John Donne Poetry

by John Donne, John Booty

Away thou fondling motley humourist,

Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any c...

Much Ado About Nothing

by William Shakespeare

Much Ado About Nothing and the Romantic Comedies Shakespeare's three great romantic comedies, so widely studied and perf...

Our Mutual Friend

by Charles Dickens, Margeret Tarner

IN these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputabl...

Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

Twelfth Night

by William Shakespeare

Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.

Tractatus logico-philosophicus

by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Isidoro Reguera Pérez

Perhaps this book will be understood only by someone who has himself already had the thoughts that are expressed in it-o...

Othello

by William Shakespeare

'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

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.

King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Darkness. A match is struck.

Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

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

Julius Caesar

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...

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

A Little Princess

by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...