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Kim
Kim

by Rudyard Kipling

He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher-th...

1901 934 ed.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

by Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.

1890 151 ed.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

1667 396 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.

1813 4038 ed.
Treasure Island
Treasure Island

by Robert Louis Stevenson

SQUIRE TRELAWNEY, Doctor Livesey, and the rest of these gentlemen having asked me to write down the whole particulars ab...

1880 1988 ed.
A Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol

by Charles Dickens, Groth

MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.

1843 3198 ed.
Rime of the ancient mariner
Rime of the ancient mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The text of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, in this newly annotated printing, is taken from the last edition of Colerid...

1827 156 ed.
The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham

Whan that April with his showres soote

1478 722 ed.
De rerum natura
De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Aeneas and his race, delight of men and gods, life-giving Venus, it is your doing that under the wheeling cons...

1486 537 ed.
On Liberty
On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill said in his Autobiography that his father, James Mill, was "the last of the eighteenth century."

1859 465 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.
Fables
Fables

by Jean de La Fontaine

A Grasshopper gay

1678 345 ed.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

1623 256 ed.
Poems
Poems

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thy dewy looks sink in my breast;

1800 233 ed.
Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

My true name is so well known in the records, or registers, at Newgate and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things ...

1722 1114 ed.
My Secret Life
My Secret Life

by Walter, Anonymous

My earliest recollections of things sexual are of what I think must have occurred some time between my age of five and e...

1966 64 ed.
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

by Samuel Johnson

"YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that ...

1759 249 ed.
The Poetry Library of the Arts Council of Great Britain
The Poetry Library of the Arts Council of Great Britain

by Arts Council of Great Britain. Poetry Library.

1973 2 ed.