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Robin Hood
by Howard Pyle
IN MERRY ENGLAND in the time of old, when good King Henry the Second ruled the land, there lived within the green glades...
Daisy Miller
by Henry James
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel.
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton
I HAD the story, bit by bit, from various people and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different s...
Братья Карамазовы
by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский
ALEKSEI FYODOROVICH KARAMOZOV was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov, a landowner of our district, extremely we...
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...
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.
The Prophet
by Kahlil Gibran, R. Black
Al-Mustafa, der Auserwählte und der Geliebte, der seiner Zeit ein Morgenrot war, hatte zwölf Jahre lang in der Stadt Orf...
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...
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 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...
The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: Allez vous-en!
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
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.
कामसूत्र
by Vatsyāyana
Hindu love manuals are full of advice at a practical level - although the positions described in some of them are practi...
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
1801.1 HAVE JUST returned from a visit to my landlordthe solitary neighbour that 1 shall be troubled with.
Othello
by William Shakespeare
'Othello', in the words of Edward Pechter, 'has become the tragedy of choice for the present generation.'
A Doll's House
by Henrik Ibsen
A warm, well-furnished room, reflecting more taste than expense.