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Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
Pride and Prejudice
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.
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...
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 any body else, these pag...
Candide
by Voltaire
Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.
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.
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.
Antony and Cleopatra
by William Shakespeare
In Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare dramatizes a major event in world history, the founding of the Roman Empire around ...
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 ...
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
IT IS A TRUTH universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
The book in your hands is the most accessible of all literary masterpieces, and one of the strangest.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
THE family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens, Groth
MOST PEOPLE in the publishing and education industries agree that there are some books that everyone should read.
The Pickwick Papers
by Charles Dickens
THE first ray of light which illumines the gloom, and converts into a dazzling brilliancy that obscurity in which the ea...
Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare
Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords.
As You Like It
by William Shakespeare
Orlando. As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sa...
Le Morte d'Arthur
by Thomas Malory
KING VORTIGERN the usurper sat upon his throne in London, when, suddenly, upon a certain day, ran in a breathless messen...