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The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...
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...
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
The Secret Adversary
by Agatha Christie
"Tommy, old thing!" "Tuppence, old bean!" The two young people greeted each other affectionately, and momentarily blocke...
The Thirty-Nine Steps
by John Buchan
I returned from the City about three o'clock on that May afternoon pretty well disgusted with life.
The Renaissance, Studies in Art and Poetry
by Walter Pater
THE history of the Renaissance ends in France, and carries us away from Italy to the beautiful cities of the country of ...
La père Goriot
by Honoré de Balzac
Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nu...
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
There is an aura of unreality about the plays of Shakespeare, and students feel this, although they may not be able to e...
Essays
by Francis Bacon
1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.
Evil Under the Sun
by Agatha Christie
WHEN Captain Roger Angmering built himself a house in the year 1782 on the island off Leather-combe Bay, it was thought ...
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...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
by Agatha Christie
MRS. Ferrars died on the night of the 16th-17th September-a Thursday.
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...
The A.B.C. Murders
by Agatha Christie
IT was in June of 1935 that I came home from my ranch in South America for a stay of about six months.
King Lear
by William Shakespeare
KENT I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall.
Metamorphoses
by Ovid
The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...