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The golden bough
by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster
I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?
The Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
IN the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip.
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C. S. Lewis
HABIA UNA VEZ CUATRO NINOS CUYOS nombres eran Pedro, Susana, Edmundo y Lucia.
The Night Before Christmas
by Clement Clarke Moore
'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
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...
A Little Princess
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Once on a dark winter's day, when the yellow fog hung so thick and heavy in the streets of London that the lamps were li...
The Secret Garden
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Near everyone agreed Mary Lennox was a most disagreeable child.
The Tempest
by William Shakespeare
1.1 On board a ship carrying King Alonso of Naples and his entourage, a boatswain directs the crew to fight a great stor...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
OROTHY lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the far...
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
3 May. Bistritz. - Left Munich at 8:35 P.M., on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at...
Мастер и Маргарита
by Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков
Once upon an unusually hot hour of sunset in spring, two gentlemen appeared at Patriarch's Ponds in Moscow.
The Enchanted Castle
by Edith Nesbit
There were three of them-Jerry, Jimmy, and Kathleen. Of course, Jerry's name was Gerald, and not Jeremiah, whatever you ...
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
by Mary Shelley
In the introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein, Mary Shelley presents herself as "the daughter of two persons o...
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
by J. K. Rowling
Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much...
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translat...
The Jewel of Seven Stars
by Bram Stoker
IT all seemed so real that I could hardly imagine that it had ever occurred before; and yet each episode came, not as a ...
The Taming of the Shrew
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a lively, vigorous and much-adapted play.