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She
by H. Rider Haggard
There are some events of which each circumstance and surrounding detail seem to be graven on the memory in such fashion ...
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
WHETHER I SHALL TURN OUT TO BE THE HERO OF MY own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these page...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
by Hugh Lofting
ONCE upon a time, many years ago-when our grandfathers were little children-there was a doctor, and his name was Dolittl...
Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
In one of Hans Christian Andersen's last tales, the search is on for "the most incredible thing."
The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
It was seven o'clock on a warm evening in India's Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke from his day's rest.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
by Agatha Christie
The intense interest aroused in the public by what was known at the time as "The Styles Case" has now somewhat subsided.
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
AMONG OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS IN A CERTAIN TOWN, WHICH for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, an...
Jenseits von Gut und Böse
by Friedrich Nietzsche
THE Will to Truth, which is to tempt us to many a hazardous enterprise, the famous Truthfulness of which all philosopher...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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...
Anne of Avonlea
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
A tall, slim girl, 'half past sixteen', with serious grey eyes and hair which her friends called auburn, had sat down on...
Anne of Green Gables
by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped into a little hollow, ringed all around with trees and f...
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!
The history of the great plague in London in the year 1665
by Daniel Defoe
IT was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, among the rest of my neighbours, heard, in ordinary discourse, th...
Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei
by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
THE COMMUNIST LEAGUE, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one under the cond...
The History of Tom Jones
by Henry Fielding
AN author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who...
The Marvelous Land of Oz
by L. Frank Baum
IN the Country of the Gillikins, which is at the North of the Land of Oz, lived a youth called Tip.