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The complete poetical works
The complete poetical works

by Robert Burns

MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!

1786 293 ed.
Book of common prayer
Book of common prayer

by Church of England, J. A. Maurault

Where at the Death of our late Sovereign Lord King Edward the Sixth, there remained one uniform order of Common Service,...

1537 545 ed.
Macbeth
Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

1508 1866 ed.
Imitation of Christ
Imitation of Christ

by Thomas à Kempis, Jérôme de Gonnelieu

"Whoever follows Me will not walk in darkness," says the Lord.

1568 394 ed.
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet

by William Shakespeare

Enter SAMPSON and GREGORY, with swords and bucklers.

1597 985 ed.
Bleak House
Bleak House

by Charles Dickens

LONDON. MICHAELMAS TERM LATELY OVER, AND THE LORD Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall.

1850 418 ed.
The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

The greatest improvement in the productive powers of labour, and the greater part of the skill, dexterity, and judgment ...

1776 123 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

1609 646 ed.
King Lear
King Lear

by William Shakespeare

1.1 King Lear, intending to divide his power and kingdom among his three daughters, demands public professions of their ...

1608 1614 ed.
The Pickwick Papers
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...

1800 538 ed.
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

1801 - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

1846 2886 ed.
John Donne Poetry
John Donne Poetry

by John Donne, John Booty

Away thou fondling motley humourist,

1633 105 ed.
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

WE were in the prep-room when the Head came in, followed by a new boy in mufti and a beadle carrying a big desk.

1856 1557 ed.
Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

MY FATHER HAD a small estate in Nottinghamshire, 1 was the third of five sons.

1726 1810 ed.
King Henry V
King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote the draft of Henry V that became the First Folio text in the early summer of 1599.

1600 631 ed.
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe

by Sir Walter Scott

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large fo...

1800 480 ed.
Ὀδύσσεια
Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

1488 1063 ed.
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

by William Shakespeare

1. When reading verse, note the appropriate phrasing and intonation.

1656 1226 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.