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The Age of Fable
by Thomas Bulfinch
ANCIENT mythologies have much to do with modern literature.
Legends of Charlemagne, or, Romance of the Middle Ages
by Thomas Bulfinch
THOSE who have investigated the origin of the romantic fables relating to Charlemagne and his peers are of opinion that ...
The making of the Middle Ages
by R. W. Southern, Southern
THE formation of western Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth century is the subject of this book.
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspr...
Middlemarch
by George Eliot, Jessica Hische
MISS BROOKE had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.
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 Return of the King
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Pippin looked out from the shelter of Gandalf's cloak.
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a part...
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham
Whan that April with his showres soote
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...
Babbitt
by Sinclair Lewis
THE towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs ...
The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald
THERE was once a little princess who-"But, Mr. Author, why you always write about princess?"
Rights of Man
by Thomas Paine
AMONG the incivilities by which nations or individuals provoke and irritate each other, Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the Fren...
The Pillars of the Earth
by Ken Follett
IN A BROAD VALLEY, at the foot of a sloping hillside, beside a clear bubbling stream, Tom was building a house.