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by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In 1926 I was enrolled as student airline pilot by the Latecoere Company, the predecessors of Aeropostale (now Air Franc...
by Edith Nesbit
There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you ...
by Nevil Shute
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER PETER HOLMES of the Royal Australian Navy woke soon after dawn.
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When I was down beside the sea, a wooden spade they gave to me to dig the sandy shore.
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...
by Spyri, Johanna
IN a small Swiss town in the shadow of the mountains is a path that leads, straight and steep, into the Alps.
by Jules Verne
THE YEAR 1866 was signalized by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one ...
by Carlo Collodi
How it happened that Mr Cherry, the carpenter, found a piece of wood that laughed and cried like a child
by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville
I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family, tho' not of that country, my father being a foreigne...
by Thomas Malory
Then Ulfius was glad, and rode on more than a pace till that he came to King Uther Pendragon, and told him he had met wi...
by Emily Brontë
1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.
by Charles Dickens
AMONG other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I will begin the story of my adventures with a certain morning early in the month of June, the year of grace 1751, when ...
by Jonathan Swift
MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.
by Charles Dickens
IT WAS THE BEST of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the...
by Lewis Carroll
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...