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Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
"As for the rest of my readers, they will accept such portions as apply to them."
The Red Badge of Courage
by Stephen Crane
THE cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.
The Beautiful and Damned
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, ...
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.
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 Elements of Style
by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White
Follow this rule whatever the final consonant.
Dune
by Frank Herbert
A Beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
Emma
by Jane Austen
Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...
Up from Slavery
by Booker T. Washington
I WAS born a slave on a plantation in Franklin County, Virginia.
Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
On the origin of species by means of natural selection
by Charles Darwin
WHEN WE COMPARE the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of th...
Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
I've watched through his eyes, I've listened through his ears, and I tell you he's the one.
Kidnapped
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 ...
Essay concerning human understanding
by John Locke
Since it is the UNDERSTANDING that sets man above the rest of sensible beings, and gives him all the advantage and domin...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...
2001
by Arthur C. Clarke
The drought had lasted now for ten million years, and the reign of the terrible lizards had long since ended.
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...
Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog)
by Jerome Klapka Jérôme
THERE were four of us - George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency.
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...