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by Nathaniel Hawthorne
THE evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful...
by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...
by George MacDonald
I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness.
by Wilkie Collins
In the first part of Robinson Crusoe, at page one hundred and twenty-nine, you will find it thus written: ;Now I saw, th...
by Sir Walter Scott
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...
by H. G. Wells
THE STRANGER CAME early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the ...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...
by Jane Austen
THE FAMILY of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...
by Jane Austen
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
by Alexandre Dumas
SINCE ARAMIS' SINGULAR TRANSFORMATION INTO A CONfessor of the order, Baisemeaux was no longer the same man.
by Jorge Luis Borges
Debo a la conjuncion de un espejo y de una enciclopedia el descubrimiento de Uqbar.
by Jane Austen
E un adevăr de toți știut că un burlac înzestrat cu o avere frumușică trebuie să fie în căutarea unei soții.
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
HALFWAY DOWN A bystreet of one of our New England towns stands a rusty wooden house, with seven acutely peaked gables, f...
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
IN 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already gone since irony, the Holy Ghost of this later day, ...
by H. G. Wells
H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.
by William Shakespeare
Enter Sampson and Gregory, with swords and bucklers, of the house of Capulet.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.