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The Jungle
by Upton Sinclair
IT WAS FOUR O'CLOCK when the ceremony was over and the carriages began to arrive.
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...
The Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde
Morning-room in ALGERNON's flat in Half-Moon street.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
La Divina Commedia
by Dante Alighieri
To run through better waters the little ship of my wit now hoists its sails, leaving behind it a sea so cruel,
Os Lusíadas
by Luís de Camões, Souza Botelho
Arms are my theme, and those matchless heroes
Native Son
by Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated
BRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNG! An alarm clock clanged in the dark and silent room.
The talisman
by Stephen King, Peter Straub
ON SEPTEMBER 15th, 1981, a boy named Jack Sawyer stood where the water and land come together, hands in the pockets of h...
Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury
It was a quite morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.
20 Years at Hull House
by Jane Addams
On the theory that our genuine impulses may be connected with our childish experiences, that one's bent may be tracked b...
Arms and the Man
by George Bernard Shaw
To the irreverent-and which of us will claim entire exemption from that comfortable classification?-there is something v...
Where the Red Fern Grows
by Wilson Rawls
As the story opens, a man sees some dogs fighting in an alley.
Niebla
by Miguel de Unamuno
AUGUSTO appeared at the door of his house and held out his right hand with the palm downward.