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The Lost World
The Lost World

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth-a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, ...

1900 747 ed.
R.U.R. and The insect play
R.U.R. and The insect play

by Karel Čapek, Josef Čapek

Central office of the factory of ROSSUM'S UNIVERSAL ROBOTS.

1920 147 ed.
A Study of History
A Study of History

by Arnold J. Toynbee, D.C Somervell

HISTORIANS generally illustrate rather than correct the ideas of the communities within which they live and work, and th...

1900 119 ed.
Confessions
Confessions

by Augustine of Hippo

Great are you, O Lord, and exceedingly worthy of praise, your power is immense, and your wisdom beyond reckoning.

1482 449 ed.
Flatland
Flatland

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Spoken by Horatio, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, act 1, scene 5, line 164. Hamlet has just been conversing with his f...

1884 584 ed.
The House of the Dead
The House of the Dead

by Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский

IN the midst of the steppes, of the mountains, of the impenetrable forests of the desert regions of Siberia, one meets f...

1881 103 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.
The Souls of Black Folk
The Souls of Black Folk

by W. E. B. Du Bois

BETWEEN me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by other...

1903 412 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, and in the hou...

1945 116 ed.
The Riddle of the Sands
The Riddle of the Sands

by Erskine Childers

I HAVE read of men who, when forced by their calling to live for long periods in utter solitude-save for a few black fac...

1903 531 ed.
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth

by Edith Wharton

SELDEN paused in surprise.

1905 694 ed.
Principles of Political Economy
Principles of Political Economy

by John Stuart Mill

THERE are very few scientific books whose permanent place in literature seems so well established as that of John Stuart...

1848 133 ed.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

ON a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York.

1920 301 ed.
The Sign of Four
The Sign of Four

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco cas...

1889 961 ed.
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin

ABODES OF HORROR have frequently been described, and castles, filled with spectres and chimeras, conjured up by the magi...

1799 265 ed.
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

1600 818 ed.
Black Beauty
Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell

Ihren 17. Geburtstag hatte sich Vicky Gordon anders vorgestellt.

1877 107 ed.