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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

In sooth I know not why I am so sad.

1600 818 ed.
The Haunted Hotel
The Haunted Hotel

by Wilkie Collins

In the year 1860, the reputation of Doctor Wybrow as a London physician reached its highest point.

1878 282 ed.
Othello
Othello

by William Shakespeare

ROD:Tush, never tell me!

1622 807 ed.
All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well

by William Shakespeare

Names: in adopting Helen rather than the usual Helena, I follow the preference revealed in the Folio text, in which Hele...

1734 711 ed.
Plays (36)
Plays (36)

by William Shakespeare

Late in 1621 or early in 1622 two men brought to the son of a somewhat disreputable printer an idea that was to change t...

1623 256 ed.
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]
Works [37 plays, 6 poems, sonnets]

by William Shakespeare

THIS play, indisputably one of the earliest complete productions of Shakespeare's mind, was first printed in the folio o...

1730 213 ed.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

1600 1505 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

1609 646 ed.
Winter's Tale
Winter's Tale

by William Shakespeare

If you shall chance (Camillo) to visit Bohemia, on the like occasion whereon my services are now on-foot, you shall see ...

1735 494 ed.
The Prince
The Prince

by Niccolò Machiavelli

ALL THE STATES and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedom...

1515 1407 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Inferno
Inferno

by Dante Alighieri

Midway in his allotted threescore years and ten, Dante comes to himself with a start and realizes that he has strayed fr...

1767 446 ed.
Pictures from Italy
Pictures from Italy

by Charles Dickens

ON a fine Sunday morning in the Midsummer time and weather of eighteen hundred and forty-four, it was, my good friend, w...

1846 99 ed.
Tod in Venedig
Tod in Venedig

by Thomas Mann

Gustav Aschenbach or von Aschenbach, as he had officially been known since his fiftieth birthday, set out alone from his...

1925 38 ed.
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus

by William Shakespeare

IN the Induction to Bartholomew Fair (1614), where Ben Johnson is making fun of the popular taste of his day, one of the...

1594 225 ed.
An Arabian tale
An Arabian tale

by William Beckford, Samuel Henley

VATHEK, ninth Caliph of the race of the Abassides, was the son of Motassem, and the grandson of Haroun al Raschid.

1786 333 ed.
Herr der Diebe
Herr der Diebe

by Cornelia Funke

It was autumn in Venice when Victor first heard of Prosper and Bo.

2000 46 ed.
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two Gentlemen of Verona

by William Shakespeare

Valentine. Cease to perswade, my louing Protheus;

1632 429 ed.