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Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire
Under the Greenwood Tree or, The Mellstock quire

by Thomas Hardy

To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

1872 425 ed.
The Book of Tea
The Book of Tea

by Okakura Kakuzō, Okakura Kakuzō

Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage.

1900 476 ed.
A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night.

1962 105 ed.
Down and Out in Paris and London
Down and Out in Paris and London

by George Orwell

THE Rue du Coq d'Or, Paris, seven in the morning.

1933 119 ed.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice s...

1865 3546 ed.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

by Mark Twain

"CAMELOT-CAMELOT," said I to myself.

1889 788 ed.
Pippi Långstrump
Pippi Långstrump

by Astrid Lindgren

Way out at the end of a tiny little town was an old overgrown garden, and in the garden was an old house.

1945 116 ed.
De la démocratie en Amérique
De la démocratie en Amérique

by Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont

AFTER the birth of a human being, his early years are obscurely spent in the toils or pleasures of childhood.

1835 421 ed.
The Giver
The Giver

by Lois Lowry

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.

1993 106 ed.
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables

by Lucy Maud Montgomery

MRS. RACHEL LYNDE lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladie...

1908 1299 ed.
Matilda
Matilda

by Roald Dahl

It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.

1988 149 ed.
The Time Machine
The Time Machine

by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells was an astonishingly versatile and prolific writer.

1895 1146 ed.
Ulysses
Ulysses

by James Joyce

Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed...

1914 612 ed.
Walden
Walden

by Henry David Thoreau

When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in ...

1854 1138 ed.
Dubliners
Dubliners

by James Joyce

THERE WAS no hope for him tins time: it was the third stroke.

1914 996 ed.