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by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberat...
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
LATE in the afternoon of a chilly day in February, two gentlemen were sitting in a well-furnished room in a town in Kent...
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...
by John Bunyan
When at the first I took my Pen in hand, / Thus for to write; I did not understand / That I at all should make a little ...
by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu
"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN THE YEAR 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
by Ken Kesey
part 1 They're out there. Black boys in white suits up before me to commit sex acts in the hall and get it mopped up be...
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...
by Judith S. Levey, Elaine Israel
One of the many remarkable new images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows part of the CONE NEBULA, a huge column of...
by Mildred D. Taylor
"Little Man, would you come on? You keep it up and you're gonna make us late."
by Beverly Cleary
KEITH, the boy in the rumpled shorts and shirt, did not know he was being watched as he entered room 215 of the Mountain...
by Ernest Hemingway
IT WAS NOW LUNCH TIME AND THEY WERE all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent pretending that nothing ha...
by Sharon Creech
Gramps says that I am a country girl at heart, and that is true.