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The Awakening
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! Allez vo...

1899 346 ed.
The Yellow Wallpaper
The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nur selten beherbergen Ahnenhallen den Sommer über ganz gewöhnliche Leute wie John und mich.

1892 538 ed.
The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as o...

1898 563 ed.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

1597 985 ed.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays with Morrie

by Mitch Albom

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could w...

1994 104 ed.
Utopia
Utopia

by Thomas More

UPON a time when tidings came to the City of Corinth that King Philip, father to Alexander surnamed the Great, was comin...

1518 198 ed.
Bible
Bible

by Bible

Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.

1200 6084 ed.
कामसूत्र
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...

1883 381 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

1686 2420 ed.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
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...

1997 397 ed.
Autobiography of a Yogi
Autobiography of a Yogi

by Yogananda Paramahansa

THE CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES of Indian culture have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple...

1946 183 ed.
Candide
Candide

by Voltaire

Chapitre I. Comment candide fut élevé dans un beau château, et comment il fut chassé d'icelui. Il y avait en Vestp...

1746 1079 ed.
Emma
Emma

by Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born on December 16, 1775, in the year before the American Declaration of Independence, and she died on ...

1815 2263 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

1600 1505 ed.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A THRONG of bearded men, in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats intermixed with women, some wearing hood...

1800 2406 ed.
πολιτεία
πολιτεία

by Πλάτων

The first chapter consists of a typical early Platonic dialogue: it was possibly originally written separately from the ...

1554 794 ed.
Macbeth
Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

1508 1866 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Hard Times
Hard Times

by Charles Dickens

NOW, what I want is, Facts.

1854 1028 ed.