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A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
IN the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go throu...
The Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
NOW at last the slowly-gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us.
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...
Bible
by Bible
Genesis appropriately stands as the first book of the OT and serves as an essential introduction to the whole Bible.
The complete poetical works
by Robert Burns
MY loved, my honoured, much respected friend!
Leonardo
by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster
If anyone fits the description 'Renaissance man' it is Leonardo da Vinci.
My Secret Life
by Walter, Anonymous
My earliest recollections of things sexual are of what I think must have occurred some time between my age of five and e...
Actes and monuments
by John Foxe
In Matthew 16:18, it is recorded that Jesus told His disciples, "I will build My church, and the gates of hell [Hades] s...
Life of Samuel Johnson
by James Boswell
To write the Life of him who excelled all mankind in writing the lives of others, and who, whether we consider his extra...
The Seven Storey Mountain
by Thomas Merton
ON THE LAST DAY OF JANUARY 1915, UNDER THE SIGN OF the Water Bearer, in a year of great war, and down in the shadow of s...
Margaret Ogilvy, and others
by J. M. Barrie
ON the day I was born we bought six hair-bottomed chairs, and in our little house it was an event, the first great victo...
Huntingtower
by John Buchan
The girl came into the room with a darting movement like a swallow, looked round her with the same birdlike quickness, a...
