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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4, 1804 in Salem, Massachusetts, the only son of Captain Nathaniel Hathorne and Eli...

1800 2406 ed.
As You Like It
As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

IN the eighteenth century Samuel Johnson declared, 'Of this play the fable is wild and pleasing'.

1734 467 ed.
American Pastoral
American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

THE SWEDE. During the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood...

1997 27 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

So there you are, a teenager at your grandparent's house.

1200 6084 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Wordsworth

Was it for this

1807 372 ed.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

1667 396 ed.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

by Thomas Hardy

THIS novel being one wherein the great campaign of the heroine begins after an event in her experience which has usually...

1707 747 ed.
De rerum natura
De rerum natura

by Titus Lucretius Carus

Mother of Romans, delight of gods and men,

1486 537 ed.
Cranford
Cranford

by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

IN the first place, Cranford is in possession of the Amazons; all the holders of houses above a certain rent are women.

1853 473 ed.
Confessions
Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

1482 449 ed.
Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 1

by William Shakespeare

So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, And breath short-winded accents of new...

1598 751 ed.
The complete poetical works
The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

1786 293 ed.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner

by George Eliot, John O'Connor

IN the days when the spinning-wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses-and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread-l...

1800 628 ed.
The holy war
The holy war

by John Bunyan, Daniel V. Runyon

IN my travels, as I walked through many regions and countries, it was my chance to happen into that famous continent of ...

1682 149 ed.
Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals
Omnivore's Dilemma. A Natural History of Four Meals

by Michael Pollan, Richie Chevat

What should we have for dinner?

2006 28 ed.
La Symphonie pastoral
La Symphonie pastoral

by André Gide, Josep Lozano

1919 101 ed.
La charca del diablo
La charca del diablo

by George Sand, George Sand

I HAD just been looking long and sadly at Holbein's ploughman, and was walking through the fields, musing on rustic life...

1846 92 ed.