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Down and Out in Paris and London
by George Orwell
THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.
Book of common prayer
by Church of England, J. A. Maurault
Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
After the fall of the Roman empire in the West, an interval of fifty years, till the memorable reign of Justinian, is fa...
David Copperfield
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...
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 Merchant of Venice
by William Shakespeare
ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...
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...
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...
Utopia
by Thomas More
UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...
American notes
by Charles Dickens, Diana C. Archibald
I SHALL never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the th...
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...